Sunday, September 24, 2017

September 25-29

  • This week's story is Interrupted Journey.
  • This week's vocabulary words are vital, sleek, basking, analyzing, detect, and damage.
  • This week's focus skill is author's purpose and perspective.
  • This week's grammar skill is Greek and Latin word parts. There will be a spelling test on Friday, October 6. The spelling words are astronomy, astronaut, chronic, chronological, chronicle, cyclical, cyclone, hydrant, hydrate, optical, optician, tractor, attract, rupture, interrupt, erupt, audible, audio, dictate, and verdict.
  • Reading homework goes home on Monday. It is due on Thursday of this week because of homecoming. I grade a portion of this homework, so please make sure it is answered correctly and your child uses their reading book to find those answers.
  • There will be a reading test on Thursday. It will consist of a cold read passage and question set, comprehension questions about this week's story, and vocabulary sentences.
  • Last week's tests go home on Tuesday.
  • If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it by Friday.  
  • Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will continue to sign conduct folders for failure to bring materials to class, failure to return signed papers, behavior, etc!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!


Coming Up Soon:
  • Friday, September 29. Homecoming Day, Dismissal at 11:30. Monday is Movies/TV Show Characters. Tuesday is Bands/Music Groups. Wednesday is Jersey Day. Thursday is Color War. 5th Grade is Maroon. Friday is Spirit Day.
  • Wednesday, October 4 Picture Day
  • Friday, October 6 Vocabulary Parade (letter went home last week)
  • Monday-Friday: October 2-6 Book Fair
  • Monday-Wednesday: October 9-11 Fall Break
Please send to school with your child an inexpensive pair of head phones or ear buds for computer lab. Thanks to everyone who has already sent them in.

Remember if your child is absent, I need a parent's or doctor's excuse when they return.

Email for your child's teachers are:
             andrea.lovell@sccboe.org    (reading)
             tara.tillman@sccboe.org  (math)
             tammy.short@sccboe.org   (science)
             laura.allen@sccboe.org  (social studies)

Our websites are available through the school's website.

Any questions, please ask. Looking forward to another GREAT week of learning.

Sunday, September 17, 2017

September 18-22

I pushed back last week's schedule into Monday and Tuesday of this new week because of being out of school last week.
Test and homework due on TUESDAY.
 
  • This week's story is Stormalong. 
  • This week's genre is tall tale.
  • This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are reputation, yearning, escapades, bellowing, betrayed, outcast, withered, and unfathomable.
  • This week's grammar skill is homographs.
  • Reading homework went home last Wednesday. It is not due until Tuesday. I grade a portion of this homework, so please make sure it is answered correctly and your child uses their reading book to find those answers.
  • There will be a reading test on Tuesday. It will consist of a cold read passage and question set, comprehension questions about this week's story, and vocabulary sentences.
  • Last week's tests went home on Thursday.
  • If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it by Tuesday.  
  • Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will continue to sign conduct folders for failure to bring materials to class, failure to return signed papers, behavior, etc!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!


Coming Up Soon:
  • Friday, September 29. Homecoming Day, Dismissal at 11:30. Dress up day info coming home this week.
  • Wednesday, October 4 Picture Day
  • Friday, October 6 Vocabulary Parade (letter went home last week)
  • Monday-Friday: October 2-6 Book Fair
  • Monday-Wednesday: October 9-11 Fall Break
Please send to school with your child an inexpensive pair of head phones or ear buds for computer lab. Thanks to everyone who has already sent them in.

Remember if your child is absent, I need a parent's or doctor's excuse when they return.

Email for your child's teachers are:
             andrea.lovell@sccboe.org    (reading)
             tara.tillman@sccboe.org  (math)
             tammy.short@sccboe.org   (science)
             laura.allen@sccboe.org  (social studies)

Our websites are available through the school's website.

Any questions, please ask. Looking forward to another GREAT week of learning.

Sunday, September 10, 2017

September 11-15

  • This week's story is Stormalong. 
  • This week's genre is tall tale.
  • This week's focus skill is Cause and Effect. 
  • This week's vocabulary words are reputation, yearning, escapades, bellowing, betrayed, outcast, withered, and unfathomable.
  • This week's grammar skill is homographs.
  • Reading homework goes home on Monday. It is not due until Friday. I grade a portion of this homework, so please make sure it is answered correctly and your child uses their reading book to find those answers.
  • There will be a reading test on Friday. It will consist of a cold read passage and question set, comprehension questions about this week's story, and vocabulary sentences.
  • Last week's tests will go home on Tuesday.
  • If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it by Friday.  
  • Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will continue to sign conduct folders for failure to bring materials to class, failure to return signed papers, behavior, etc!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!


  • Coming Up Soon:
    • Progress Reports go home Monday, September 11. Please review, sign, and return by Friday.
    • Open House Tuesday, September 12 from 6:00-7:00.
    • Everyone wear BLUE on Friday, September 15th for Alopecia Awareness Day.
    Please send to school with your child an inexpensive pair of head phones or ear buds for computer lab. Thanks to everyone who has already sent them in.

    Remember if your child is absent, I need a parent's or doctor's excuse when they return.

    Email for your child's teachers are:
                 andrea.lovell@sccboe.org    (reading)
                 tara.tillman@sccboe.org  (math)
                 tammy.short@sccboe.org   (science)
                 laura.allen@sccboe.org  (social studies)

    Our websites are available through the school's website.

    Any questions, please ask. Looking forward to another GREAT week of learning.

    Sunday, September 3, 2017

    September 4-8


    Hope you all enjoyed your Labor Day weekend.
  • This week is review week. No reading story. We will be doing activities to reinforce the reading standard.
  • This week's reading standard to review is Text Structure: Sequence.
  • This week's grammar skill to review is context clues.
  •  Reading homework went home on Tuesday. It is not due until Friday. There is an explanation slip attached to the homework. Your child CAN write on the sequencing chart.
  • There will be a reading test on Friday. It will consist of a cold read passage that includes sequencing and context clues questions.
  • Last week's tests will go home on Wednesday.
  • If your child makes a D (60-69) or an F (59 and below), please sign the test and return it by Friday.  
  • Please continue to talk with your child about their school work, homework, conduct, notes from the school/teachers, etc. I will continue to sign conduct folders for failure to bring materials to class, failure to return signed papers, behavior, etc!
  • Let me know if you need me in any way!


  • Coming Up Soon:
    • INow passwords went home last week
    • Friday, September 8 Grandparents' Lunch at 11:40. Adult lunch is $4.00 (Cash only)
    • T-shirt Sale now through September 8 (order forms went home last week)
    • Fundraiser books went home last Friday. Please fill out these books and return by Friday, September 8th.
    • Everyone wear BLUE on Friday, September 15th for Alopecia Awareness Day.
    Please send to school with your child an inexpensive pair of head phones or ear buds for computer lab. Thanks to everyone who has already sent them in.

    Remember if your child is absent, I need a parent's or doctor's excuse when they return.

    Email for your child's teachers are:
                 andrea.lovell@sccboe.org    (reading)
                 tara.tillman@sccboe.org  (math)
                 tammy.short@sccboe.org   (science)
                 laura.allen@sccboe.org  (social studies)

    Our websites are available through the school's website.

    Any questions, please ask. Looking forward to another GREAT week of learning.