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October 28, 2012
What We’ve Been Up
To
Our classroom looks
like a pet shop with all of our science species. We have four tanks housing pond snails,
guppies, tree frogs, African dwarf frogs, and hermit crabs. We will be observing them for a few weeks and
then the animals will need to find good homes (providing everyone survives all
the little hands…). It is suggested that
these animals have a tank with a heater.
Please let me know if your family would be interested in adopting
something. If we end up with a lot of
interest, we’ll hold a drawing. All
animals will come home the week of Thanksgiving.
This week
READING This
week we will be starting a new unit-taking a close look at Story Elements—changing
character, setting, plot, conflict, etc.
I will be checking in with students to be sure their first quarter
reading requirements have been met-one nonfiction, one mystery, two realistic
fiction and two choice books. I am very
proud of our kids—we set a reading goal of 40 books this year and most are well
on their way!!
WRITING This
week we will continue to polish up and revise one of our seeds into a published
piece for a grade. Author’s Chair will
be introduced.
MATH We
have been reviewing skills from our Data and Probability Unit in order to prepare
for students to test Tuesday. I will
have a sign up for individual help on Monday.
SCIENCE We
will be doing lots of observing this week.
We will be learning what traits animals need to survive their habitats.
SS As
we continue our Government Study, we have been working on Core Democratic
Values and making a book to go along with our study. Later in the week we will learn about the
voting process and will take place in an Anderson Mock Election and vote. Please talk to your child about some of the
issues on the ballot and how you decide what to vote for.
Halloween
As you know, our
committee has worked hard to plan out party.
If your child is on the committee, please be sure he/she is bringing
what was agreed upon. Please let me know
if you are unable. Thanks!
Friday a note came
home about lunch. The entire school eats
at 11:30. Everyone who is going home for
lunch/costume change needs to fill out the form and return. All students are dismissed through their
regular doors at 11:30. If your child is
eating lunch at school, the form needs to be filled out so the cafeteria can
plan for bought lunches.
We will start our
party right after lunch, breaking for the parade and then back to the
party. Please remember the Anderson
dress code and no masks or weapons.
Enrichments
We are so lucky that
we have 3 Book Club Leaders this year.
We will have about 12 students working with Mrs. Moberly, Mrs. Sieloff,
or Mrs. Martin once a week to read and discuss a book over the course of a few
weeks. The students who are not in a
book club this first round will be working in a group with me to work on a
specific reading skill. The next round
of book clubs will begin in January.
We also have 2
partner facilitators, Mrs. Lozon and Ms. Derby.
They help partner groups work on reading and writing each week.
Finally we have lots
of math helpers—Mrs. Drabczyk, Mrs. Smith, and Mrs. Pauli. They play games with us during math
workshops, are on hand for individual help, help quiz students on the computer
and other tasks.
In addition we have Mrs.
Howey, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. DeLisen, and Mrs. Drabczyk copy for us.
We are so grateful to
have all of these wonderful ladies help us out.
Thank you for all of your time!!
Reminders
Please keep
collecting Box Tops and Campbell Soup Labels for us. The next collection date is in a few days.
We eat snack every
morning. We have a very late lunch and do
get hungry midmorning…
If you’d like this
newsletter in hard copy form, please let me know.
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