Mrs. Buck's Class News
September 27, 2019
Next Week:
Grandparents Day
Study Trip to Flat Fork Creek Park
Permission slips are due back no later than Friday, October 4th.
If you want to want to chaperone this study trip, please respond to me by Friday, October 4th. There is no limit to how many chaperones we can have, however, some parents may have to meet us at the park due to seating availability on the buses.
Student Led Conferences
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084ca5ac2ea5fe3-2019
If you are having difficulties signing in using this method, please reach out so that I may help you get a time.
I am looking forward to seeing everyone next week.
Liger Mile
Why Writing Workshop? By the Partnership for Inquiry Learning
You may be wondering why we using writing workshop for writing. This article by the Partnership of Inquiry Learning will help answer some of your questions.
Writing workshop elevates writing as a content area.
Writing across the curriculum to support our learning lives is different than writing to communicate original ideas. Both are valuable and necessary skills. When writing is only done inside other subjects—writing up scientific findings or responding to essay questions in history or literature, for example—no time is devoted to teaching concepts and strategies that improve the writing. Lessons in voice, genre, style, structure and craft get pushed out of the way. In writing workshop, these lessons are front and center. Students are not only putting words on paper but also learning how to make informed decisions and use intentional strategies that make the written texts as effective as possible.
This Week in Global Studies
Lunch Visitors
Lunch Visitors Are Now Welcome: Visitors with approved background checks and who have also viewed the anti-bullying video may now eat lunch with their child/children. There is a ten visitor maximum, so please be sure to call the TCE office at 594-4310 by 9:30am on the day you would like to visit for lunch.
Mystery Birthday Gift
•School policy states that food may not be sent from home. A great idea is a Mystery Gift: Surprise your child by purchasing a game or book for the classroom on his/her birthday! Have your child bring this wrapped “mystery gift” to the classroom to open with us. I will then write your child’s name in the donated item, and it will be available for each student to use. This is not mandatory; it is only a choice. Your child’s birthday WILL be acknowledged in class, after all, it is a special day!
•If your child would like to hand out pencils, erasers, bookmarks, or any other non-edible item to help celebrate his/her birthday, I will be happy to accommodate a time when this can be arranged.
•It is also school policy that invitations to parties not be passed out at school unless the whole class is invited. Otherwise, they must be mailed from your home.
Library Volunteers
Library volunteers are needed to help with shelving and checking in books in our TCE Library. Volunteering in the library is fun and the schedule is flexible! If you are interested in volunteering, please reach out to Mrs. Hopper, TCE Librarian (lhopper@hse.k12.in.us).
*A safe visitor background check is required for all school volunteers. For more information on background checks, visit https://www.hseschools.org/services/other/school-safety/visiting-and-volunteering.
Book Fee/iPad Rental Update
On September 6, 2019 elementary families will be able to view book fees on Skyward. Pat Lines, TCE Treasurer will email families an invoice on Friday evening as well. Book fees and any ipad rentals payments are due October 4, 2019. For those who qualified for café/textbook/ipad free/reduced assistance, you should see a “Textbook Assistance” (TA Code) plus a fee credit (zero balance for 2019-2020 school year).
Just a reminder, for free/reduced assistance families must apply every year on or after July 1, 2019. If you have any questions about this assistance or if you would like a payment plan, please contact Pat Lines, TCE Treasurer at (317) 594-4310 or plines@hse.k12.in.us.
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Important Information for Next Week
Mark Your Calendar!
October 12th- Fall Break Begins
October 21st- School Resumes from Fall Break
Next Week's Related Arts Schedule
Tuesday, October 1- Day 2: Art
Wednesday, October 2- Day 3: P.E
Thursday, October 3- Day 4: Global Studies
Friday, October 4- Day 1: Music
We Are Learning...
Reading
Our reading focus shifted to nonfiction texts this week. We are finding out that to gain the most knowledge from these types of books, we need to look closely at our texts. We need to ask questions based on what we are reading. If we want to learn about a topic, we must look through a book to see if it will provide the information we are looking for. If it doesn't, we need to find other materials that will help us gather information.
These tools have been great as we have started writing nonfiction books and are continuing our research into hurricanes. It is allowing the students to work smarter and better during these work times.
Writing
This week we jumped into nonfiction writing. I challenged our writers to write about topics that they are experts in. If you are an expert, you don't need to stop during your writing to look up information in a book. You have the knowledge already. Each day's challenge is to create a new nonfiction work about a topic the kids know a lot about. We are finding that some nonfiction mentor texts have great craft moves that we can use in our own nonfiction writing.
The improvement of our writing through these first few months has been amazing!
Word Study
Math
Mrs, Carissa Buck
Email: cbuck@hse.k12.in.us
Location: 14642 E 126th St, Fishers, IN, United States
Phone: 317-594-4310
Twitter: @_MrsBuck_