Sunday, October 10, 2010

Week of 10/11/10

Hi Families!  Hope you have enjoyed your weekend! I have GREAT news!!  My owl grant has been fully funded!!!! Yay! I had some anonymous donors, some donors that I don't even know, and then the Build-a-Bear Foundation finished it off with a donation! Wow! I am so excited!  What is really neat about this is that it will tell the children that they matter, that their education is important, that people they don't even know want to invest in them! Thanks to all of you who voted for my project! I appreciate it so much!

Here is what is on the agenda this week:

Reading - The children will work on finishing their leveled novels this week on an individual basis.  We've worked in literature circle groups for 2 weeks, but now I want them to finish up on their own.  I will still have them meet to discuss their books though.  When they are done, they will be doing a fun book report project called Story Skeletons!  This is not a homework assignment.  We will be working on them in class.  We will also add short reading passages with comprehension questions to our morning work.  The passages will be science related on the topic of animal adaptations.

English - Adjectives, daily morning English review

Spelling - Sounds of "i"   List 5 will be up on spellingcity.com on Monday.  Our Friday ended up so busy, we completely forgot to take our "O" spelling enrichment test! :o So sorry.  I will give this test on Tuesday, and we will do the next enrichment list, listed after "O" words on Friday.

Math - Balancing equations, review of equations, expressions, function machines, and other previously learned skills  We will have a test on Thursday.  I will send home a study guide on Wednesday.

Social Studies - We will finish up our Oklahoma Symbols book and take a quiz on it.  We will also learn how to read a road map of Oklahoma.  This will be the last of social studies for awhile, while we concentrate on science.

Science - Animals and Biomes  I will be sending home a homework project this week that will be due next Monday, October 18th.  The project will be to create an edible animal cell.  I will send home the specifics tomorrow.  This is a super fun project, and especially fun when we get to eat them!

I want to BRAG about the children's 5 Pocket Biographies!  Wow!  They are exceptional!!  I am so super impressed by how creative they are!  We have had so many compliments on them.  The children, I think, have been proud of themselves and they should be!  Success breeds success......you should have seen the smiles on their faces when they brought them in......warms my heart!  I also want to BRAG about the Oklahoma History test results!! Wow!  They rocked the classroom with their scores!  You should be so proud of them because they know their stuff!! Did you know all the answers?  I would venture to say....no, you've slept a lot since you had to know this information.  :)  I'm sure they were excited they knew some things mom and/or dad didn't know! 

The week after this week is Fall Break week.  Since it is a short week, we will not be doing things like usual.  We will be having learning centers for those 3 days along with other things, but the children will need to bring a pumpkin to school for those learning centers.  The pumpkin can be as small as an apple or as large has they can carry.  Please have the pumpkin to school by October 18th.  The children can bring the pumpkin early if they want, since the animal cell is due that day too.  

Please remember Fall Fun Day is this Wednesday.  It should be a fun evening!  Also, please remember to vote for our school playground at http://www.powerabrightfuture.com/.  You will need to register first, but you can vote everyday.  Search by: Glenwood  There will be 3 Glenwood projects, but you can tell which one is ours by the picture of our playground. This would be incredibly beneficial to your child, so please take the time to vote. Thanks!

Book orders are due on October 14th.  You can postdate the check for October 20th. 

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