Well, such a week!! \u00a0Lucky me…I have been impaneled on a Jury for a trial downtown. \u00a0The Judge did not hold court today, Friday, but the trial will resume on Monday and is expected to last all of next week. \u00a0I have plans all set for next week and the kids know I’ll be gone. \u00a0I sure did miss being with them-wow!<\/p>\n
Today my students took the reading part of \u00a0NWEA. \u00a0I didn’t catch all of their scores but from those that I did catch, they did well. \u00a0YEAH! \u00a0A big key is to “Take your time!” \u00a0I did talk to them about that trick. \u00a0Monday they will take the MATH part of the NWEA. \u00a0I hope all will be here for that test. \u00a0We had 4 friends out ill today. \u00a0(: \u00a0I hope they will feel better by Monday.<\/p>\n
READING- We will start Unit 6 \u00a0NEIGHBORHOODS. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>We will begin the week with the theme of \u00a0“OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Phonemic Isolation, Blending, and Segmentation will be focused as we do every week withL ALL<\/span> of our reading<\/p>\n COMPREHENSION STRATEGY-Summarize<\/p>\n COMPREHENSION SKILL-Identify Main Idea and Details<\/p>\n LETTERS-W w \u00a0X x: \u00a0<\/strong>SPELLING-***NEW THIS SEMESTER*** \u00a0We will begin weekly SPELLING TESTS. We will begin slowly. \u00a0This week’s word list is:\u00a0mat \u00a0 \u00a0cat \u00a0 \u00a0pat \u00a0 I \u00a0you \u00a0the \u00a0live<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n WRITING-We are back to\u00a0Narrative Writing.\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 (Telling a story) \u00a0Practice this at home. \u00a0Make up a story before turning out the bedroom lights, waiting for big brother at Basketball, Daddy to get ready ( \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 ) , baby sister to wake up, Grandma to come over…. \u00a0Lots of dialogue and rich vocabulary. \u00a0Add a setting.\u00a0<\/strong> (Where does your story take place?) \u00a0Add\u00a0characters.\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0What’s the\u00a0plot? \u00a0<\/strong>How does the\u00a0plot (<\/strong>problem) get solved (solution)<\/strong> \u00a0You now have the 4 elements of any story…characters, setting, plot, solution<\/strong><\/p>\n MATH-Geometry \u00a0 2-D \u00a0and 3-D shapes<\/p>\n SOCIAL STUDIES-We will be studying MAPS. \u00a0We will make a map with some friends. \u00a0We will also make a book showing different places in which we ALL live. \u00a0It will be very cute!<\/p>\n That’s all for now. \u00a0Best wishes to Claire as she undergoes some surgery. \u00a0Mend quickly Claire!!! \u00a0We’ll see you in a week. \u00a0Eat lots of ice cream and Jell-O. \u00a0Yumm.<\/p>\n Have a good week. \u00a0I will be checking my emails at night. \u00a0I can’t have my phone with me while at the court. but I’ll be in touch.<\/p>\n Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“Life Is Too Short<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n to wake up in the morning with regrets.<\/p>\n So, love the people who treat you right,<\/p>\n forgive the ones who don’t,<\/p>\n and believe that everything happens for a reason.<\/p>\n If you get a chance, take it.<\/p>\n If it changes your life,<\/p>\n let it.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, such a week!! \u00a0Lucky me…I have been impaneled on a Jury for a trial downtown. \u00a0The Judge did not hold court today, Friday, but the trial will resume on Monday and is expected to last all of next week. \u00a0I have plans all set for next week and the kids know I’ll be gone. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}