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Elves

11/28/11

Welcome back from break! I hope you all had a nice long Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends.

Today we worked on lesson 3.14 in Unit 3. I am hoping to do a review on this unit on Thursday and then give the test on Friday. We also are starting a new reading unit where each student picks three books from our library, reads a bit from all three, and then fills out a packet to decide which book is the best choice for them. We will be reading these books during the month of December.

Homework:

Math: Homework and remembering 3.14 due tomorrow

Reading: Read 20 minutes. Book it calendar is due signed by Friday.

Other: Book order due Dec 9th
Technology letter due Friday. I will pass out new ones to people who lost theirs today.

Louis Daguerre's birthday 1787

We learned about Louis Daguerre today-his birthday was on this date in 1787. He invented one of the first ways to take pictures. I took pics of the class using some phone apps that make the photos look like older types of photos. Enjoy!

11-17-11

Today we started our unit on matter. We also worked on business letters!

Homework:

LAng Arts: Finish editing your rough draft business letter.

Spelling: Study for test, correct your sentences

Math: finish timing

Other:

Popcorn tomorrow
PTO clothing orders due tomorrow

11-15-11

Happy birthday Avian! Thanks for the yummy cupcakes!

Homework:

Math: HWK and Remembering 3.9 due tomorrow

Science: finish Matter worksheet in packet

Spelling: put words in sentences for tomorrow

Other: Music writing things due tomorrow
PTO clothing order due Friday

11-14-11

Today we worked hard on lining up decimals and adding them correctly. Last week we worked on these as a class, but kids were rushing through them and making mistakes. I think the class has learned how to slow down and do it correctly the first time.

We also started learning about matter today in Science class. There is a Steve Spangler link on my blog that has some cool videos about science experiments, some which involve matter.

Homework:

Reading: read 20 minutes

Other:

Clothing orders due Friday
Music ideas for holiday program due Wed in music class

President Obama Lays Wreath at Tomb of the Unknown

11-11-11

Today we celebrated Veterans Day. We had an assembly and passed out thank you letters to the veterans that came. My dad also came to talk to the class because he is a veteran. Those pictures are below. Make sure and thank the veterans in your life today.

Homework:

Other:
clothing order due 11-18

Mrs. Tegge's Dad visits

11-10-11

Today we talked about Veterans Day. Tomorrow my dad will be coming in to talk a bit about this holiday. We will also have our Veterans Day Assembly tomorrow from ten to ten-thirty.

Homework:

Language Arts: Study your address

Spelling: Test tomorrow

Social Studies: Study your study guide and get it signed by a parent for tomorrow! Quiz tomorrow

Math: Page 104 1-6 in Math Journal if you didn't finish in class. Show work on a separate paper. Homework 3.8 show work on separate paper.

Other: book order due tomorrow
clothing order due 11-18
Veterans Day oral history optional-due tomorrow

11-9-11

Today we finished our Day of the Dead altar in honor of Squeaker. The photo is posted below.

Ask your child about this holiday that is celebrated in South America-we learned about it in Spanish class.

Homework:

Writing: finish final penpal letter on stationary. Finish rough draft of veteran's day letter. We had 15 minutes to work on the Rough draft, but a lot of students didn't use it wisely.

Math: Make sure you are done with HWK and Rem. 3.6

Social Studies: study your study guide and get it signed by Friday

Spelling: Test Friday

Other:
book order due 11-11
clothing order due 11-18
oral history for Veterans Day due Friday if you want to do it

Day of the Dead for Squeaker

11-4-11

Today we finished up the WKCE testing for this year. We also finshed up our Haunted house book reports and started practicng our mystery kid's book we wrote as a class. We will be sharing that book with Mrs. Buss' second grade class next week.

Homework:

Reading: read 20 minutes

Other: Book order due Friday November 11
Send in any filled out stars for Veteran's Day (sent home to the school yesterday)
email me any photos of veterans for use in a slideshow
Veterans welcome to come as guests to our Veterans Day Assembly Friday, November 11th
from 10-10:30 in the commons.
PTO clothing order due November 18th

11-3-11

Today we continued Math and Reading WKCE testing. We will finish up the testing tomorrow!

We are working on letters to penpals that we are getting from India. The rough draft needs to be finished tonight so we can write our finals early next week. We watched a video on India to see how life might be like there.

Homework:

ILA: Finish your penpal letter rough draft

Reading: Read 20 minutes and mark on your Book It calendar

Math: Homework and top of Remembering for lesson 3.5 due tomorrow. We haven't been doing timings this week because of WKCE

Other:
Book order due Nov. 11th (online code GTNGK if it is your first time to the website-the link is on the right hand side of my blog page)
Veteran's Day star due next week
PTO clothing order due Nov. 18th

11-2-11

Today we took one part of the Math and one part of the Reading WKCE tests. We will be taking more parts on Thursday and Friday, and then we will be done!

We also learned a little bit about the country India. We will be having penpals from that country this year. We are working on our rough drafts of our introduction letters to our penpals in class right now.

On a sad note, Squeaker the rat died sometime today :( Rats don't usually live much longer than 2 years and he was close to that. We talked about what an Epitaph on a gravestone is and wrote our own for Squeaker. She will be missed!

Homework:

Reading: 20 minutes-we will be getting a November Book-It calendar tomorrow.

Hand in any October Book-It calendars signed by a parent by Friday to get your pizza ticket.

Spelling-none this week because of WKCE

11-1-11

Mr. Larson came to our class today to give us a refresher course on playground behavior. I am sure the 5th graders will use the Eagle Way on the playground!

Homework:

Reading: sign Book-it October calendar. I will hand out the November calendar tomorrow

Spelling: no spelling this week due to the WKCE testing

Other: WKCE testing Wed.-Friday

Conferences tonight:

3:30 Priscilla
4:15 Hunter
4:30 Hadassah
4:45 Julian
5:00 Elijah
5:15 Jasmine
6:15 Autumn
6:30 Asher