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Announcements
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November 13 -14
Parent
Teacher Conferences
 (no kids this time)
no classes on Thursday and Friday |
Thank
you one and all for signing up for
conferences! When I left on
Friday, I believe there were only two
more to go. Great job!
If you haven't filled out your Homework
for Parents, please "Git R Done"
Get them to me by Wednesday, please!
I e-mailed them to you last week on
Thursday and a correction on Friday (in
case you haven't checked your
e-mail recently).
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Coming
Events
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November 19, Wednesday, Math Club
3:03-4:45 in 4th grade classroom
November 21, Ozarks
Highlands-Alluvial Lowlands video
conference with St. Louis 10:15 - 11:00
November 21, Friday, GLS Culture Club
(secondary) Mr. Greenwood International
Male Pageant Fundraiser, 6:30 p.m.
November
26, 27, 28, Wed., Thurs., Fri.
Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 17,
Wednesday, Secondary Winter Holiday
Program, HHPA, 7 p.m.
Dec. 19, Friday,
Elementary Winter Holiday Program, 9
a.m., PSU Theater
student are dismissed approx. 11:00
(after the program) Students
report to PSU and are picked up from
PSU. No one comes to Greenwood.
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Tests/Projects |
this
week:
Missouri History, Chapter 3, "The
First Missourians" test is Wed., Nov. 12
next
week:
Spelling/vocab test
2.11 on
Friday, Nov. 21
Science Rocks and Minerals test
on Friday, Nov. 21 |
Just so you know...
After school this week, Mrs. J...
- Monday, 3:20-4:15
planning with Ms. Wendy Ramsey, our
site-based student
- Tuesday, 3:30 - 4:30
elementary faculty meeting
- Wednesday, 3:30 - 5:00
North Central faculty meeting
- Thursday Parent teacher
conferences, then a personal meeting
at 5:00 p.m.
- Friday Parent teacher
conferences, planning for next week
- Saturday |
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Please let me know if and when at
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Math:
Unit 4 Decimals and Their Uses
We
continue the unit this week with lessons
on estimating with decimals, decimal
addition and subtraction (we use the
partial sum algorithm for addition and
traditional borrowing for subtraction),
and a lesson on decimals in money by
working through a savings account
balance sheet. Students will be
assigned math homework on Wednesday.
Things to do at home:
Monday's lesson includes learning about a odometer and
trip meter in a car. I would
appreciate it very much if you could
share what yours looks like and how they
operate with your child.
If you can, please share things like the grocery store
receipt and the gas receipt when you
fill up, and anything else with decimals
so they can see some real uses of
decimals in daily life.
You might even want to show them how to figure out gas
mileage. Fill up the car this
week, then again next week. Show
them how to find how many miles were
traveled and divide that total by the
gallons you put into the tank the second
time you fill up. Show them how
that can end up being a decimal answer.
Gather money from piggy banks or wallets. Ask your
child to show you two different amounts,
such as $1.33 and $4.20. Practice
adding or subtracting the amounts.
Your child can use a calculator to check
the answers.
Check daily planners for more assignment
details.
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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.
Monday we will be learning
about Canada using our TFK
magazine.
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Word Study:
No test this
week
Click Here for spelling
list. Choose the top
link "find a list", then
enter "Shae Johnson" and you
will go directly to list
one. You can bookmark this
site as one of your
favorites. Each week
we have a listing, the new
one will be posted.
Try the games and
activities, too, to give
practice learning the words.
Test will be on Friday.
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Writing:
On
Tuesday, I will review with
the students how to make a
webbing of their ideas for
activities we learned about
sedimentary rocks.
Then, students will be
expected to write a one
paragraph conclusion to some
activities related to our
study of sedimentary rocks.
We will be doing some
activities in the classroom
on Monday and Tuesday, then
they will make conclusions
as to what they learned from
the activities. Most
of this work should be
finished in class, but they
may still have a final draft
to write. Final drafts
may be typed.
Writing and Editing
Checklist To use with any writing work whether it
is typed or handwritten.
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 Research:
Remember
to have your student work on
their project during the
parent teacher conference
days.
Links for projects are
available at this link:
Ozark
Highlands Video Conference
Project Groups
Independent Project: individuals or groups working on topics having to do with the Ozark
Highlands for our Nov. 21 video conference with St. Louis school. Students
are to be researching and
finding images and
information on their own
that will help them put
together a presentation.
Some sites can be visited in
order to take digital
pictures for the
presentation.
They are to keep sites,
images, etc. either on their
desktops at school or on
their flash drives. It
is important to have all
materials collected so we
can work on final products.
I will be able to give time
in class for the groups to
develop and rehearse their
presentations during the
week of Nov. 17.
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Missouri History:
We finish
learning about the first Missourians
with the use of chapter 3 in the
textbook. Lesson 4 includes
information about the Osage view of the
world. We will read and discuss in
class, students will complete a time
line worksheet and do the MM on p. 66 on
Monday.
on Tuesday, we will be working in
partners on a comparison activity on p.
67 of the textbook.
Test over chapter 3 is on Wednesday,
Nov. 12
Watch for daily assignments on planners.
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Science:
Click here to find the
Minerals and Rocks Objectives and Study
Guide
Texts used for this
unit include the green science book,
Earth's Surface and the orange booklet,
Sedimentator student guide. Students
are expected to keep track of these
books and booklets. They are only
lent to them to use. We will take
notes on experiments and have those
notes in the binders.
On Wednesday, I am giving the students 3
workbook pages to work on over the
weekend. Test is next Friday over
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Love and Logicisms , Wise Words About
Kids
by Jim and Charles Fay
Wise parents delay consequences until
they have time to talk to others and put
together
a "watertight" plan. These plans teach
resistant
kids that their parents are so powerful
that they can handle them without
breaking
a sweat--and so loving that they can
discipline
with sadness instead of anger.
Every time we lecture a child about what
he or she has learned, or say something
like,
"Now, have you learned your lesson?"
we rub salt into the wounds and damage
the
parent-child relationship. Kids
learn most from
consequences when we keep our mouths
shut
and let the consequences be the "bad
guy".
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Love and Logic Stories
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Dear Shae,
Curfews are an
inevitable part of
parenting. They can be
sources of conflict or
you can use them as
learning experiences.
Dr. Charles Fay
explains…
Curfews: To Set Them or
Not
Those of you familiar
with Love and Logic have
probably already noticed
that we are rather
old-fashioned codgers.
We believe that parents
should run the home
rather than the kids.
Now for the shocker: In
our book,
Parenting Teens with
Love and Logic,
we teach that parents
are typically better off
if they allow their
teens to negotiate a
reasonable time to be
home each evening.
"Reasonable" is the key
here. Depending on the
kid, the activity they
are involved in, the
degree of responsible
adult supervision, the
weather, the type of
community we live in,
etc., a "reasonable"
time to be home might
range from 6 PM to the
wee hours of the
morning.
The key is showing that
we are more concerned
about their emotional,
physical and spiritual
safety than whether we
can make them come home
at a certain time.
Expressing worry about
their safety results in
far less rebellion than
trying to dictate an
arbitrary time for them
to walk back over the
threshold.
"We need the phone
numbers of the people
you will be with so that
we can find you if
something goes wrong,"
is also a wise and
reasonable request to
make. Doing a little
detective work to keep
them honest never hurts,
either!
Here's the overall goal:
Get your teens setting
their own reasonable
curfews so that they
will be good at it by
the time they turn
eighteen and leave home.
Thanks for reading!
Dr. Charles Fay |
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