Classroom News for the Week of 8/29

News and Upcoming Events: 

Welcome to our new Orchestra teacher, Ms. Truher, she will be working with Orchestra students on Mondays starting 9/12.

8/30 Back to School Night 5:00 MPR, 6:00 and 6:30 Classroom Presentations, Rm. 12

9/2 Admissions Day - School Closed 

9/5 Labor Day - School Closed

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What's Going On This Week In Class:

Math: 

Strategies to Mentally Add/Subtract 1,000; 10,000; 100,000; Rounding Numbers

Reading:

This week we will chapters 4-6 of Bridge to Terabithia (realistic fiction). Our focus will be on drawing conclusions and making inferences about characters based on their thoughts and actions. We will also be practicing making a prediction using text evidence.

We will also be reading other examples of realistic fiction from our Treasures anthology.

Genre Blackout: Students will be challenged to read books from 9 different genres in the first reporting period. Ask your child about his/her progress.

Students will receive their first issue of Scholastic News.

Spelling & Vocabulary:

This week we begin studying Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots. This week's prefixes are sub (below, under) and trans (across, over). 

Our words are:

1. subway
2. subject
3. submerge
4. subset
5. subterranean
6. translate
7. transfer
8. transform
9. transparent
10. transplant

Students should study both the meanings and spellings of these words. They will bring a study guide home on Monday. We will also complete activities and a pre-test in class to help them prepare for the quiz. The quiz will be Thursday this week due to the holiday.

Writing:

Unit 1 of Writer's Workshop: Realistic Fiction continues. Our focus will be on using moments from real life to gather ideas for fictional stories.

Students will be rewriting their first drafts of a realistic fiction story. This is a baseline writing sample to mark their progress against throughout the unit.

PE:

Students will work in pairs to create an "Never-Before-Seen (NBS) Dance". Students will work with a criteria chart over the next two weeks to develop an original 2 minute dance to perform for their classmates.

Social Studies/Science:

Rotations begin Friday, September 9.

Arts:

Ms. Ng - Observational Drawing

Reminders:

Tardies:

 Please make sure your child is at school and in line by the 8:06 bell. We try to start the school day at 8:11 promptly. Thank you for your help!

Homework:

Please check your child's Homework Log nightly and sign or initial after the work has been completed. Remind your child that completed homework and the HW log are due in class daily. 

Classroom News for the Week of 8/22

News and Upcoming Events: 

8/22 Please have all recommended supplies at school

8/23 Early Dismissal Tuesdays begin. Students will be dismissed at 1:34

8/30 Back to School Night 5:30 MPR, Classroom Presentations will be held in rm. 12 at 6:00 and 6:30 p.m.

9/2 Admissions Day - School Closed 

9/5 Labor Day - School Closed

What's Going On This Week In Class:

Math: 

Place Value Through the Millions Period; Comparing and Ordering Numbers; Rounding

Fluency with Math Facts

Reading:

This week we will begin reading Katherine Peterson's Newbery-award winning book,  Bridge to Terabithia (realistic fiction). Our focus will be on drawing conclusions and making inferences about characters based on their thoughts and actions. Students will also be using Depth and Complexity icons to dig deeper into the text.

Genre Blackout: Students will be challenged to read books from 9 different genres in the first reporting period. 

Writing:

This week we begin Unit 1 of Writer's Workshop: Realistic Fiction. Our focus will be on using moments from real life to gather ideas for fictional stories.

Students will continue to write narrative stories about how they were named.

Social Studies/Science:

Rotations begin Friday, September 10.

Arts:

Visual arts teacher Katherine Ng will be visiting our class on Thursday for the next 9 weeks.

Reminders:

Tardies:

Please make sure your child is at school and in line by the 8:06 bell. We try to start the school day at 8:11 promptly. Thank you for your help!

Homework:

Please check your child's Homework Log nightly and sign or initial after the work has been completed. Remind your child that completed homework and the HW log are due in class daily. 

Classroom News for the Week of August 15th

Welcome Back to School!!!

News and Upcoming Events:

* 8/19 Emergency Cards/Internet Use/Photo permission sheets due
* 8/22 Suggested School Supplies due
* 8/23 Early Dismissal Tuesdays begin
* 8/30 Back to School Night. Early Dismissal at 12:50.

• 5:30 PTA Meeting and Welcome -MPR
• Classroom Presentations will be at 6:00 and 6:30

* 9/2 Admissions Day (California admitted to the U.S.). School Closed.

Donate to Our Class: Use this link to shop for items for our classroom on Amazon. You can have items sent directly to the school c/o Ms. Convey. Please be sure to include your name, so I can thank you!  Ms. Convey's Class Supplies

What's Going On This Week In Class:

Class-building:

This week we will learn and practice the routines and procedures of room 12. In addition, we will work together to develop academic and social expectations for our class.

We will participate in many fun language arts activities to help us all get to know one another even better. These activities will help us practice both listening and writing skills. 

Students will also take beginning of the year baseline assessments in reading, writing, and math.

Homework:

Your child will have short homework tasks to complete each evening this week. Please check your child's homework log every night and sign it when the work is completed. Help remind your child that his or her homework log must be at school every day. It's a good idea for students to keep it inside their homework folders.

Thank you for reading! Please check this blog next Monday (and every Monday) to stay informed about what's happening in our class. :)