Classroom Notes for Room 30
Week of September 18-22, 2017
Monday is Day #2 of our five-day specials schedule.
Fundraiser- Our only PTO fundraiser was kicked off on Friday. Each student was to bring the envelope home with information of the fundraiser. Some is sold from a brochure, and Yankee Candles are sold online.
Parent-Teacher Conference Scheduling- Scheduling for the October 10th and 11th Parent-Teacher Conferences should begin on Wednesday, Sept. 20th. I will have some alternate times available. We hope to have 100% participation. Please sign up early for the best choices!
Heartland Film Festival Letter Writing Project- Jan Taylor, retired MGES Kindergarten teacher, will be visiting to talk Melissa Maxwell's class and our class at 12:15 today. She represents the Heartland Film Festival and will be talking to our students about a letter writing project for their guests in October. Heartland Film Festival guests from all over the world will receive gift bags (without jewels from Tiffany’s etc.) as they arrive that will include our students’ letters. Most of the guests are young fledgling movie makers, and they are often overwhelmed by the letters from our students. Mrs. Taylor often gets feedback from the guests, and sometimes the movie makers have returned videos to our students thanking them for their unique welcome to Indianapolis. Sometimes Mrs. Taylor suggests to the students that they make a recommendation for restaurants or something inexpensive to do while in the city. In past years, most guests could only make walking trips to places downtown. Last year, I think most of the Festival was held in venues on the north side.
Math Test Access (EL#2- Subtraction)- The class took a Subtraction Test on Friday. Some students have not finished the test. When all tests are submitted, I will send the result with your child’s answers through your CHILD’s school email account. Also, the students’ work was to be shown on a paper copy that will come home on Monday. The last two questions were not part of the score entered into Skyward. They were worth bonus points. Also, some answers scored as wrong were overridden due to incorrect commas and labels of problems. Labels were to be left off this time.
Math- We have already started our daily math fact tests. Students take a 25-problem test each morning, beginning with addition facts through 12+2.
-Essential Learning #3- Multiplication
-Lesson 3.1: Mental Math: Multiply by Multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000
-Lesson 3.2: Mental Math: Round to Estimate Products (4.C.2) Lesson 3.2 Practice pp. 101-104
-Lesson 3.3: The Distributive Property
-Lesson 3.4: Mental math Strategies for Multiplication
Spelling- Tests will be on Friday. Each word will be scored as two points. One point for the correct spelling and one for being placed in the correct feature column. Capital letters are used only when needed, and some letters must be dotted or crossed.
Test will be Friday, September 22nd.
Group I: Within Words Sort (WW) 16: Short u /CVC Long u /CVCe Long u /CVVC /Oddball bump crude bloom build grunt cute moon built plus flute smooth skunk mule spoon trust prune tooth bruise cruise juice suit
Group II: Within Words Sort (WW) 42: -tch /-ch /r, l, n + -ch /Oddball fetch beach bench rich hutch coach branch much match peach crunch which pitch screech gulch sketch speech munch witch teach torch
Group III: Syllables and Affixes (SA) Sort 29: or in 1st Syllable /or in 2nd Syllable /Oddball order record sorry forest perform reward normal ashore forty before florist explore northern ignore forward adore corner inform chorus corncob shorter border
Reading- Basal Reader- “Lewis and Clark and Me,” pp. 52-69
-Target Skill: Author’s Purpose
-Test on Friday. Test includes vocabulary, Target Skill, and Word Analysis: Suffixes –or, -er
Language- Units of Study: The Arc of the Story (Narrative Writing)
-Writing Powerful Endings, Session 10
-Revisions, Session 11
-Making a Space for Writing, Session 12
-Using Mentor Texts to Flesh Out Characters, Session 13
-Editing with Various Lenses, Session 14
Social Studies- Unit 2, Indiana’s Early History
-Review Lesson 2.1: First People
-Review Lesson 2.2: Native Americans of Indiana
-Lesson 2.3: Explorers and Settlers
-Unit 2 Study Guide on Thursday
Thank you!