Room 26 Weekly News
November 7, 2016
Announcements
LCM is having a Food Drive from November 7 - November 18. Please send in non-perishable food items (especially items with protein, such as canned tuna, canned chicken, peanut butter, etc.) to benefit hungry families.
This Thursday, November 10, we will have a short flag salute in honor of Veteran's Day. Our students will be singing "The Star Spangled Banner" as we honor the men and women who have served in our military. This is also LCM's Military Appreciation Day, so students should wear red, white, and blue or camouflage on Thursday!
There is no school on Friday, November 11 for Veteran's Day. Monday, November 14 is also a day off for students due to Parent-Teacher Conferences.
If you have not yet signed up for a Parent-Teacher Conference, please go to the Sign-Up Genius link (emailed a couple of weeks ago) and choose a day/time that works well for you. Thank you in advance for being on time. I have 33 conferences to do, so I must stick to a very tight schedule. I want to make sure we have the full 20 minutes to discuss your child!
Next week, we will be on an alternate minimum schedule due to conferences. Monday is a non-student day. Tuesday through Friday, students will be dismissed at 1:25. There will be a short 10-minute recess (enough time to eat a quick snack and use the restroom) and a short 30-minute lunch each day.
Academic Updates
Math
Language Arts
We are finishing up Unit 3 this week. Unit 3 has been a non-fiction focus, aligned with our Science standards on plants and cells. In every unit, we have been doing close reads (annotating texts, using evidence in the text we read to support our writing, etc.), as well as reading leveled texts to generate small-group discussions. Each unit also has Reader's Theater texts, which are a fun way for students to work on oral fluency and expression as they read. The Readers Theater plays have been a HUGE hit with this class! I have such a confident and funny group of students, and it is SUCH fun to hear them put on these plays during reading groups.
We have been spending time working on the Parts of Speech over the past week or two. Your students are doing a GREAT job identifying the jobs words do in sentences. So far, we have covered Articles, Nouns, Verbs, Prepositions, Adjectives, Pronouns, and Conjunctions. This week, we will conclude with Adverbs. Then, we will move on to learn about how we can use conjunctions to write compound and complex sentences, as well as how we can use prepositional phrases and adverbial phrases to spice up our writing and make it more descriptive and interesting.
Writing
Science
Specials
Monday - Science Garden
Tuesday - P.E.
Thursday - P.E. and Library
(no school Friday)