The Weekly Roar
November 27, 2017
Our Week Coming Up At A Glance:
Writing:
- Spelling words for the week. (Unstressed Syllables): entry, limit, talent, disturb, entire, wisdom, dozen, impress, respond, fortress, neglect, patrol, kitchen, forbid, pirate, spinach, adopt, frighten, surround, challenge Challenge Challenge: adapt, refuge, distribute, industry, somber
- Quiz: Thursday, Friday, December 1, 2017
- We will be working on using a semicolon to join two independent clauses and to separate groups in a series with commas.
Reading:
- Vocabulary Words: literary language, quotation, contradictory, exaggerated, misleading, key ideas, audience, compound sentence, concluding paragraph, transitions
- Quiz-Reading Vocabulary/Phrases-Friday, December 1, 2017:
- We will be taking a reading assessment. Thursday, November 30, 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.
- We will continue our poetry unit. We will be reading several different forms of poetry, and we will also begin our first PBL (Project Based Learning: A teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem or challenge.), and write our own historical poem about Thanksgiving.
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 will choose a side, loyalists or patriots, and prepare 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.
Progress Reports Available Tuesday 11/28:
Beginning the 2017 school year, NBISD will be sending Interim Progress Reports (IPR) and Report Cards electronically. As a parent, there is no setup required to begin using the electronic version of IPRs/Report Cards for txConnect Parent Portal. All txConnect accounts will receive the electronic copy of the IPR or Report Card for all students attached to the account. When the electronic IPR and Report Card are posted during the grading cycle, the parent will receive an email notification that the IPR or Report Card for the grading cycle are being posted.
A sample of the email notification is below:
Date: September 25, 2017 at 8:00:00 AM CDT
To: RGHUDSON118@YAHOO.COM
Subject: Student Report Cards (001 000025)
Report Cards for your student(s) at RYDELL HIGH SCHOOL are being generated and should be available in txConnect shortly.
To log into txConnect, Click on the link below:
URL: https://txconnpa.esc13.net/PANB/login.aspx
When a parent signs into txConnect, the document may be viewed on the Summary page. Below is an image of the Summary screen and where the electronic file will be located to click on and view. When the parent clicks on the icon, a PDF document will open for the parent to view. Parents can save or print the PDF file as needed.
USE THE BUTTON BELOW TO TAKE YOU DIRECTLY TO THE DISTRICT PAGE.
From The Seele Office:
From PTA Want to take a night off from cooking and help raise money for Seele at the same time? Win-Win! Join us at the Schlotzsky's off of Hwy 46 on Wednesday, November 29th from 4-9. All you have to do is mention Seele Elementary when you order and Schlotzsky's will give 15% back to our PTA! Come inside and eat with friends from school or run through the drive through on the way home or to practice. Just click the button below to rsvp. Thanks for supporting our school!
How Can Your Student Practice At Home?
Dates To Remember:
Tuesday, November 28th: Progress Reports
Wednesday, December 6th: Middle School Band Visit - 7:50am
Friday, December 8th: Club Craft
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