The Weekly Roar
December 4, 2017
Looking For Volunteers!
Our Week Coming Up At A Glance:
Writing:
- Spelling words for the week. (Changing Final y to i): duties, earlier, loveliest, denied, ferries, sunnier, terrified, abilities, dirtier, scariest, trophies, cozier, enemies, iciest, greediest, drowsier, victories, horrified, memories, strategies Challenge Challenge: unified, dictionaries, boundaries, satisfied, tragedies
- Quiz: Friday, December 8, 2017
- We will continue working on using a semicolon to join two independent clauses and to separate groups in a series with commas.
Reading:
- Vocabulary Words: introductions, details, drafts, genre, grammar, mechanics, multi paragraph, organized structure, simple sentences, specific facts - lead4ward
- Quiz-Reading Vocabulary/Phrases-Friday, December 8, 2017:
- We will be taking a reading assessment. Thursday, December 7, 2017
- We will continue to work on summarizing using GIST and checking our comprehension by using Author’s Portrait.
- We will continue to practice our choral reading. This is a great way to help with fluency. We read a paragraph together out loud as a class at a pace that I set. The more we practice this, the faster we will get and the more fluent we will become.
- Your child should continue reading or be read to nightly for 20 minutes and then getting their reading log initialed.
- We continue our novel study, Bud, Not Buddy.
Social Studies:
- We will continue looking at events that lead up to the Declaration of Independence such as, The French and Indian War, The Proclamation of 1763, The Quartering Act, The Stamp Act, The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and The Intolerable Acts. The student have chosen a side, loyalist or patriot, and are now preparing for a mock trial!
The students will begin their research on key figures that helped write and participated in the Declaration of Independence. They will include facts such as, date of birth, key position the individual held, what influence they had on the independence, etc. They will be creating a Smore flyer, much like the one Thomas Paine wrote, persuading others to side with freedom.
From The Seele Office:
From time to time we send out messages about special events or if there is an emergency. Please make sure you sign up to receive these notices through School Messenger. School Messenger provides access to all the information sent by NBISD. If you have any questions, please call our office at 627-6750.
From PTA Seele PTA is taking orders for winter gear, New Braunfels Unicorn -Long sleeve T-shirt’s Sweatshirt’s & Hoodie’s, youth & adult’s sizes available. Order forms are available in the office.
How Can Your Student Practice At Home?
Dates To Remember:
Friday, December 8th: Club Craft
Friday, December 22nd: 5th Grade Christmas Party (Stay tuned! More information to come.)
Friday, December 22nd: Early Release, 1:15
December 25th-January 5th: Holiday Break
Friday, January 12th: Banner Rally
If you ever have any questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to contact me. yferrier@nbisd.org or 830-627-6779.
Always With A Roar,
Ms Ferrier