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for the week of August 24 -
28,
2009
August Lunch Menu
Zip Card Services Go here to make
deposits in your child's account. |
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Newsletter Archives
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Welcome back
to school! As you might
imagine, much of this week will
be spent on learning how to do
things in the 4th grade--how to
set up our notebooks, desks,
norms of behavior, cruising the
website to get familiar with
what is available there, lunch
routines, recess rules,
collecting forms, and more.
We won't be in full routine
until next week.
On Tuesdays the spelling words
will be posted each week since
on Mondays I will be giving a
pre-test.
Read through the math this week.
If you have a digital camera
your child knows how to use,
please send it and the USB cable
to download with them. We
learn what a polygon is and make
observations in school to
identify those in our
environment.
Sally Foster Gift
Wrap fundraiser begins this
Friday. Watch for more
information coming home then.
Today, Home
Connection (red) envelopes come
home with your child. Please
empty what is inside, look the
materials over, and sign the
envelope to send back to school
tomorrow, Tuesday. This is a
weekly routine.
When Ms. Seibert
(practicum student) and Ms. Lea
(student teacher) went through
all the hand-ins you gave to us
at the meeting, there were
missing items for some of you. I
realize that your child might be
handing them in today, but if
you didn't, there will be copies
in the HC envelope for you to
complete and send back tomorrow.
I like to get all collections
done as soon as possible so I
can get things organized and
wrapped up. Thanks for
doing all the paper work!
I know it all takes precious
time and I do appreciate your
help.
For dismissal, we will meet you
outside (Please do not come into
the building and block the
hallways.) in front of the
building. Remember to pull
up to the first empty space and
the teachers will send the
children to you. That way
we can ideally fill five
vehicles at once to help move
the dismissal routine along as
quickly as possible. For
the first week, bring a book,
magazine or books on tape with
you. Until everyone has
time to get their routines down,
pick up can be a long process.
Just be patient.
As always, if you have any
questions, please contact me by
email or call 836-5952 before or
after school. |
Coming
Events
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Friday, Aug.
28 |
Sally
Foster Gift Wrap sales begin |
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Monday, Sept.
11 |
Sally
Foster Gift Wrap sales
end-forms to classroom |
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Monday, Sept.
14 |
PTA
Meeting and Ice Cream Social |
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Friday, Sept.
25 |
Blue
Jays-in-Blue Jeans at
Gilardi's Ristorante 6:00
p.m. |
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October 5 - 9
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Greenwood
Homecoming Week |
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Tests/Projects |
This
week:
spelling pretest today; final
Word Study* test on
Friday (See Spelling City for the words
this week, posted on Tuesday.)
Next
week:
Spelling pretest on Monday:
final on Friday
*Word study includes both vocabulary and
spelling. Pre-tests will only refer to
the spelling aspect. Pre-tests
will be given on Mondays. Words
that are correctly spelled on the
pre-test will not be on the post test.
All spelling tests will be given orally
by partners on Fridays and handed in to
the teacher for grading. Vocabulary
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Just so you know...
Before and after school this week, Mrs. J...
- Monday,
- Tuesday,
- Wednesday, possible
professional development webinar at
3:45 p.m.
- Thursday, eMINTS
teaching
- Friday,
- Saturday, |
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Please let me know if and when a link is not working on my website. |
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Math: We
will review multiplication skills, work
on problem solving and begin our
Polygon
WebQuest . You might want to look
this over yourself. It will be
introduced on Wednesday this week.
In a nutshell, it is a type of
observation hunt to learn about what a
polygon is and find examples of them in
school. If you have a digital
camera you don't mind your child using,
please send it with your child on
Wednesday this week. I do have a
classroom camera we can share. Because
we do not have card readers in our
computers, in order to download pictures
would you make sure they also bring
their USB cable for the camera ?
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Language Arts
Reading:
Students should be reading
at least 30 minutes per
night! Fill out book
reports as books are
completed. go to:
Reading Links for forms.
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Word Study:
pretest on
Monday. We will be
learning the routine of
completing our
vocabulary/spelling
exercises
with Unit 1, lesson one
assignments this week.
The test will be on Friday
for both vocabulary and
spelling, herein referred to
as "word study".
Click Here for the spelling
list on Tuesday. Print the list
out in D'Nealian handwriting
for double the
practice--spelling and
handwriting!
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Writing: We
will be practicing D'Nealian
handwriting skills,
filling out a
time capsule that we will
reopen in May, and many
other introductory skills.
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Missouri History:
some time will be
spent on establishing classroom norms of
behavior, and we will be reading through
Chapter 1 in our Missouri history book.
We will be learning how to look for key
ideas when reading non-fiction
materials,
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Science:
some of this class
time will be devoted to cruising the
classroom website, discussing our
service learning project, Light the
Night, and we will learn more about the
H1N1 (swine flu) virus and health
measures we can take to avoid
contracting it.
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