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Volunteers Needed
I'm looking for a few parents that might be able to help out and lend a hand. If anyone would be interested in running some copies for our grade levels, please contact me through email. I'm also looking for volunteers for the Halloween party on Oct.28th and someone to help us with box tops.
Our first box top contest will run from October 3rd - October 7th. Please make sure all the box tops are trimmed nice and neat if you could. I also still need a volunteer that would be willing to head up our box tops in room B109. They would help collect,trim, and count box tops when we have these contests.
Lake Center Spirit Wear
I'm not sure how long everything is on sale but the form was sent home today!
All donations are due on October 7th!!!!
Halloween will be here before you know it. Lake Center will be celebrating Halloween on Friday, Oct. 28th. This is a half day of school so I'm guessing all the parties will be in the morning and the parade will take place before dismissal at 12:00. I usually have parents plan and kind of run the party. I have plenty of center ideas, I'm just not the greatest at coordinating all the food. Please email if you're interested in heading up the party. We will need 4-5 volunteers to help out that day but all are welcome even if you'd rather just observe.
www.headsprout.com
Lexia is gone at PPS so the district decided on a new website called headsprout. I've placed all of the kids at their recommended reading levels and they are ready to go. I don't have a lot of experience with this website like Lexia but it seems like it hits all of the Big 5 areas when it comes to reading. You can always count headsprout towards the 20 minutes of reading each night for homework.
They will ask for the teacher login which is bcritz.
Students log-in is the first letter of their first name and their last name. Password is read.
Module 1 Assessments are in everyone's homework folders as well. I decided to send them home so everyone can look at the results. Conferences are too far away and by then we will probably be finishing up Module 3 or so. Only the story problems are a report card benchmark. Here is the answer key in case you have any questions.
We have continued forward with Module 2 all this week.
Lesson 3
Objective: Apply concepts to create unit rulers and measure lengths using unit rulers.
Lesson 4/5
Objective: Measure various objects using centimeter rulers and
meter sticks.
meter sticks.
Lesson 6
Objective: Measure and compare lengths using centimeters and meters.
Lesson 7
Objective: Measure and compare lengths using standard metric length units and non-standard length units; relate measurement to unit size.
Diary of a Spider
This week we explored the question “What might cause a story character to change?” We read a fun and fantastic story about Spider’s family, friends, school, and favorite places to play in Diary of a Spider. Along with this humorous fiction story, we read A Swallow and a Spider, a traditional tale written in a read-aloud reader’s theater format. Both stories will help us understand more about different kinds of communities.
Target Vocabulary: rotten, sticky, insects, scare, judge, screaming, dangerous, breeze
Phonics Skills: Words with long o (rose), long u (dune), long e (Pete) (VCe); hard and soft sounds for g (giraffe, goose)
Vocabulary Strategy: Context clues
Comprehension Skill: Cause and effect—tell how one event makes another happen
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize— stop to tell important events as you read
Grammar Skill: Nouns
This week for science, we discussed soil. I even taught everyone a little song to help them remember what soil is made of, which is rare because I can't sing at all.
(Sing to the tune of B-I-N-G-O)
Soil covers all the earth
There's 4 things that it's made of:
Rock, Sand, Humus, Clay
Rock, Sand, Humus, Clay
Rock, Sand, Humus, Clay
And that's what the earth is made of....
Coming Up Next....
Next week our focus will be the slow and fast changes that are always taking place on the crust.
Key Slow Changes: Weathering, Water Erosion, and Wind Erosion
Key Fast Changes: Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Floods, Forest Fires, etc...
Fast changes are way more fun to talk about but we have to learn about both.
