"If you can Google it, don't teach it. Teach your kids what to do with information."
-Diane Lewis, Director of Technology, Seminole County Schools, Florida
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tests This Week
Our Feature Articles came out beautifully and we hope you can join us Friday April 1st for a celebration.
We are wrapping up our unit on Fiction in Reading Workshop as we begin to write fiction in Writing Workshop. We will have a quiz on THURSDAY with the elements of Fiction.
Decimals has been tons of fun for the past two weeks but we will be wrapping that up as well on Friday. A review sheet will come home on Thursday.
Don't forget the half day on Wednesday!!! All report cards will be loaded today and you will be able to access them on BC@Home at your convenience. I would like your student to see it as well and fill out a reflection form by Friday.
See most of you on Friday night for Lip Sync... Thank you to Kim Gregory for all of her efforts with this!
We are wrapping up our unit on Fiction in Reading Workshop as we begin to write fiction in Writing Workshop. We will have a quiz on THURSDAY with the elements of Fiction.
Decimals has been tons of fun for the past two weeks but we will be wrapping that up as well on Friday. A review sheet will come home on Thursday.
Don't forget the half day on Wednesday!!! All report cards will be loaded today and you will be able to access them on BC@Home at your convenience. I would like your student to see it as well and fill out a reflection form by Friday.
See most of you on Friday night for Lip Sync... Thank you to Kim Gregory for all of her efforts with this!
Monday, March 14, 2011
A Regular Week
What a fantastic Drama Club performance on Thursday night. Thank you cast and tech crew for your hard work! We also celebrated Ms. Bonk's last day on Friday. We are back to a normal week!?!?
I hope you all had better luck than I did this weekend with flooding! My poor brand new basement was under 3 inches of water when I got home on Friday. Let's just say, it was not the relaxing weekend I was hoping for!
This week we will be spending our math time on Decimals. Today we had a recap of what they have already covered and we took a look at writing decimals and mixed numbers from words and fractions. We will be concentrating on place value, comparing and ordering, and addition and subtraction of decimals this week.
In Reading Workshop, our study of fiction will continue as we take a close look at Plot and Movement through Time. We will begin to think about our next writing unit as well - Fiction - Looking at a fairy tale from another characters point of view.
In Writing Workshop we will be completing the drafts of our Feature Articles. These will be sent home to type on Thursday (due back next Monday). There will be specific directions for completing these!
We will take a small break from Social Studies as we have completed the American Revolution and we will give Mrs. Kourt's class a few days to catch up. I hope you enjoyed their ABC Book!
Thanks again for all of the support you offer to your students!
I hope you all had better luck than I did this weekend with flooding! My poor brand new basement was under 3 inches of water when I got home on Friday. Let's just say, it was not the relaxing weekend I was hoping for!
This week we will be spending our math time on Decimals. Today we had a recap of what they have already covered and we took a look at writing decimals and mixed numbers from words and fractions. We will be concentrating on place value, comparing and ordering, and addition and subtraction of decimals this week.
In Reading Workshop, our study of fiction will continue as we take a close look at Plot and Movement through Time. We will begin to think about our next writing unit as well - Fiction - Looking at a fairy tale from another characters point of view.
In Writing Workshop we will be completing the drafts of our Feature Articles. These will be sent home to type on Thursday (due back next Monday). There will be specific directions for completing these!
We will take a small break from Social Studies as we have completed the American Revolution and we will give Mrs. Kourt's class a few days to catch up. I hope you enjoyed their ABC Book!
Thanks again for all of the support you offer to your students!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
What, a snow day?
I did not do a snow dance for yesterday... it caught us way off guard! Everyone is working hard to get things done. Reminder, we do have school on Friday.
There will be a SS test on Thursday! Ms. Bonk is sending home the review sheet tonight. Everyone should be well prepared. In addition, they are to finish their paragraph for the ABC Revolution book.
Math is going to be postponed for one day as we are having an emergency drama rehearsal this afternoon. We will begin Decimals tomorrow!
Feature Articles are really coming along. The revision process will be completed by Friday.
I miss my friends as I am attempting to stay out of the classroom for Katelyn to get a true experience from her solo week. I hope they are excited about it at home.
Don't forget our drama performance is 7 pm on Thursday! Hope you can make it, even if your student is not a participant!
There will be a SS test on Thursday! Ms. Bonk is sending home the review sheet tonight. Everyone should be well prepared. In addition, they are to finish their paragraph for the ABC Revolution book.
Math is going to be postponed for one day as we are having an emergency drama rehearsal this afternoon. We will begin Decimals tomorrow!
Feature Articles are really coming along. The revision process will be completed by Friday.
I miss my friends as I am attempting to stay out of the classroom for Katelyn to get a true experience from her solo week. I hope they are excited about it at home.
Don't forget our drama performance is 7 pm on Thursday! Hope you can make it, even if your student is not a participant!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Ms. Bonk
Miss Bonk is ready for take over week! She will be leading the class in all aspects for the next week (Thurs-Wed.). She is prepped and ready.
Reading workshop will continue to look at the elements of Fiction. Writing Workshop will focus on revising Feature Articles. Math will conclude Fractions and begin decimals. Social Studies will continue our look at the American Revolution. In addition, next week is our drama performance!!!
Reading workshop will continue to look at the elements of Fiction. Writing Workshop will focus on revising Feature Articles. Math will conclude Fractions and begin decimals. Social Studies will continue our look at the American Revolution. In addition, next week is our drama performance!!!
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