Today your child brought home the social studies unit 4 study guide.  Please help your child complete and review for the test on Tuesday, April 26.  The District Test will be next Tuesday in the computer lab.

Reminders:

1.  Science Fair Project due tomorrow.  Bring in boards, cups, and tubes.
2.   Reading logs were due today.  Please send in tomorrow if you forgot.
3.   Box Tops are due tomorrow if you have some to turn in.
4.   Field trip notes and money are due tomorrow for Greenfield Village.
5.   Continue doing prepdog for reading, math , and language as the NWEA testing is next Wed. for math and Friday for reading.

Thanks for your on-going support.

Thanks for all the tissue boxes sent it, but….as of today, we are out!  Please send some in to help get us through the year! NWEA window is opened.  We are scheduled to do Math next Wed. and Reading next Friday, but the schedule is fluid so it may change.

Reminders:

1.  Reading log due tomorrow.
2. Do Reading, Math and Language Prepdog practice
3. Science Project ongoing.  DUE this THURSDAY!
4. Gym shoes needed tomorrow and Thursday
5. Field trip notes and money
6. Let me know if you are interested in chaperoning.

Thanks for your ongoing support.

Your child brought home an Earth Science Book to help study for the test and do the study guide.  Our test is over the material on pages C12-C27.  The test will  have definitions and short answer questions.  Be sure your child practices both.  Also  your child brought home a vocabulary book they made to help review.

Reminders:

1.  Science Fair project due April 21
2. Earth Science study guide and book due April 19
3. Reading Log
4. Prepdog practice
5. Field trip notes and money.  Let me know if you are interested in chaperoning.

Enjoy the beautiful weekend!

Today your child brought home 2 field trip notes-one on pink and one on yellow paper.  Read for details, money due, and due dates.  Also there is an Earth Science Study Guide (on regular white paper) for our test on Tuesday, April 19.  I will send home the Earth Science Book tomorrow to use to complete the study guide and review.  Study guide needs to be returned on Tuesday  completed and with parent signature.  The book needs to be returned then too!

Reminders:

1.  Reading Log
2. Science Fair Project
3. Spelling Week 26 on Spelling City.  Test tomorrow

Thanks for your ongoing support!

Today a reading log is coming home with your child.  Your child needs to read a minimum of 20 minutes daily.   It should be attached in folder.  IT is due next Wed.Also, please have your child do at least one math prepdog and one language or reading prepdog a week.  Record the prepdog and Raz Kids also on log.  The NWEA is soon as the testing window has opened.  Some students are now ready for the Advanced second grade.  If it is too easy or difficult, please adjust.

Tomorrow field trip  permission slip are coming home for an all day trip on April 28 and morning trip on May 2.  More info. coming tomorrow.

Reminders:

1.  Spelling 26 on spelling city
2. Science Fair project is ongoing and due on April 21
3.  Publishing Center books need to be completed by this Friday.  We have worked on them in class, however, students that were absent or turned them in late may need to take them home to finish illustrations.

Your child needs to know the 11 definitions for tomorrow.  The study guide should be reviewed and studied.  It is due tomorrow with a parent signature.  Your student brought home a model today that they made and labeled with names of land features.

Thanks for all your help with the Publishing Center Books.  We had a work period today to work on the cover and illustrations and we will again tomorrow.

Spelling Week 26 is on Spelling City.

Gym shoes needed tomorrow and Thursday.

Today the last few students took home their Publishing Center Bags! As stated earlier on the blog, the bag contains a Barebook, About  the Author page with dedication page on the back of it, the story, and  directions.  There are a few students that just finished their stories and they did not have time to edit and revise with me, so you will need to edit and revise with your child before typing.

1.Please return the bag on Tuesday, April 12.  The barebooks should have the following items typed and pasted in it:  Title page, Dedication Page, Story, About the Author Page.

2.In addition, there needs to be another copy of the story in the bag.  That copy will be submitted for the Brainstormer story.  Also return their handwritten draft.

3.  Finally, please send in a box of colored pencils in the bag for your student to use on the cover and to do the illustrations.

4.  The Publishing Center Books will be on display in the media center on Friday, April 15.

Thanks for your support!  ENJOY the awesome stories and have fun typing!

P.S.  The science fair project should be started soon if it hasn’t been started.    Don’t forget to have your child do observations every 2-4 days or so.  Each observation should include a sentence about the water and nail.  Have your child be descriptive and write neatly.

Your students are awesome authors!  I’m sure you will enjoy your child’s story! We have been working on adding voice to our stories by using dialogue, sound words, snapshots, thoughtshots, similes, and “suddenly”.  The bags coming home this week have a barebook, About the Author page with Dedication Page on the back of it, and directions.  Please return the bag on Tuesday, April 12  with the  title page, dedication page,story, and About the Author page typed and pasted in it.  Also return their original draft.  Please don’t send in the items without the bag.

In addition, return in the bag another copy of the story so that it may be submitted for the Brainstormer story.  I have edited the story with your child.  If words were added by me, they are words that your student dictated to me to add.

Also, please send in a box of colored pencils in the bag for your student to use on the cover and to do illustrations.

I am sending them home after I have had a chance to edit with your child and I can’t do them all in one day. 🙂 Some are still writing  their stories.

Thanks!  Happy Typing!