Sunday, August 31, 2014


We are off and rolling as we near our third week of school. I did send a parent journal home this weekend, but I normally won't send them home on a holiday weekend. So, to make up for that, I will not send a parent journal home this Thursday, but expect to see them the Thursday after that. We are going to try and be consistent with these.

We have not sent any Monday folders home yet because we have no graded work to send home, but expect to see those next Monday as this Monday is a holiday.  When this comes home, just initial inside on the grid to indicate you have the papers and send back to school the next day.

We accomplished quite a bit last week, in Reading, we are working on building stamina in Reading and Writing. For those of you not familiar, building stamina is part of the Daily 5 program. In Writing, the students finished their Bio Poems and they are hanging up on the bulletin board outside my classroom. We have started to go over Parts of Speech, we have reviewed Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives so far.  In Projects, they are working in groups creating their own regional map. They are looking great!

Everyone is doing great with their Reading Logs, next week we are going to work on summarizing.

I am so impressed with this class, they are a great group!

Friday, August 22, 2014

Hello to all!

 This week has been great, and I have enjoyed getting to know all of my students.  I want to remind all parents that your child needs to read 20 minutes per weekend and fill out Thursday on their Reading Log, so this means they have Thursday night through Sunday night to read 20 minutes. Next, your child should have brought home a parent journal for you to read and then write a short note back to them. These journals will come home every Thursday night and are due every Monday morning. One last thing, please make sure your child has a water bottle at school every day so that class time is not disrupted by leaving the room to go get a drink. In closing, I am looking forward to teaching your children this year.