The Weekly Roar
December 11, 2017
***PLEASE SEE OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE FOR QUIZ DATE CHANGES!***
Christmas Party Information
- The students will be participating in a book exchange on Friday, December 22nd. We are asking that each student bring in a book, non-gender specific and under $5.00. Please have it wrapped and write, From: Your child's name. Please do not put anything in the To:, section, because we don't know who will end up with your child's book. We will be reading a fun version of, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas. They will pass the book every time they hear the words, left or right. It gets crazy at the end! Lots of left, left, right, right, right! Your student can begin bringing in these books now. We would like to have all the books in by Monday, December 18, 2017, so we can get a count and make sure we have one for each student. We have a total of 50 students. :)
- We will be having a holiday breakfast with the students from 9:30-10:30 on Friday, December 22. We will be providing breakfast tacos for the students, and have made a Sign-Up Genius for other items that we would like to have donated. Please click on the button below.
Our Week Coming Up At A Glance:
*****Please make a note of the reading vocabulary/phrases and spelling quizzes being moved to Thursday, December 14th, so that the students can present their mock trial on Friday, December 15th. Thank you!
Writing:
- Spelling words for the week. ((VCV Pattern): human, exact, award, behave, credit, basic, vivid, evil, modern, nation, robot, panic, select, cousin, item, police, prefer, menu, novel, deserve Challenge: autumn, nuisance, logic, column, laser
- Quiz: Thursday, December 14, 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: subheading, visualize, structural elements, autobiography, biography, fiction, nonfiction, sentence, best expresses, contents
- Quiz-Reading Vocabulary/Phrases-Thursday, December 14, 2017:
- We will be taking our 2nd, 9 week common assessment. Tuesday, December 12 , 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! They will present their trial on Friday, December 15, 2017!
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:
If your child has been sick, you must send a signed note or email within five school days, explaining the absence. If you have any questions please call the office 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:
Thursday, December 14: PTA Meeting at 5:30
Thursday, December 21st: 5th Grade Field Trip to McNay Art Museum - 10:30
Friday, December 22nd: 5th Grade Christmas Breakfast - Please see the top of the newsletter for more information and link.Friday, December 22nd: Early Release, 1:15
December 25th-January 5th: Holiday Break
Wednesday, January 10th: Report Cards available on line
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