Hello Students & Parents,
There are not enough words to describe how awesome our "ITLaPD" was this past Friday. With the help of our wonderful parent volunteers we had followed clue to discover buried treasure in the Office, listened to Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies, created our very own feathered friends (parrots), and had a Pirate Feast of beef jerky, hard tack, and oranges (to prevent scurvy). I'm sure your student told you all about it, but if they didn't then please be sure to ask!
In Reading this week, we are going to continue working on retelling stories that we read (fiction) through generating Venn Diagrams. These Venn Diagrams will enable your child to compare various stories and characters they have learned about and use higher order processing to contrast them. It is a lot of fun as well as useful for me to see what kind of information your child has retained.
In Writing, we have published our Pirate Stories from last week and will continue completing smaller works that we have begun in class. We will also have the writing prompt "It Happened on a Fall Day" for your child to work on. In that piece I will be looking for complete sentences (with proper punctuation) as well as descriptive details.
In Science, our BUTTERFLIES have emerged from their Chrysalises! Can you believe it? Today we had four little beauties waiting for us. I'm sure by the time this goes to print there will be many more so please be sure to ask your child about them today. This week we will continue caring for our butterflies and looking at their proboscis as they eat. We will also be working on our own life-cycle projects so if you still haven't sent in baby pictures please do.
Mathematically speaking, today your child took an assessment to see if they would qualify for Mrs. Evan's math extension class next quarter. As we stated at the beginning of the year, Mrs. Evan's math groups will be reassessed quarterly to see where the students should be placed. This will ensure that all students are in the ability group that best meets their individual needs. This week your student will continue to work on number sense (adding/subtracting numbers through 250) as well as solving story problems (word problems) using previously discussed strategies. While the concepts for this week should not be hard the word choices within the story problems will be more challenging. Remember to help guide your student through the comprehension part and to really think about what the questions are asking.
Before I close, I would like to thank all of the students and parents for your kindness on Friday. Despite having a family tragedy it was helpful to come back to work on Friday to ITLaPD and to all the nice cards. Losing someone is never easy but the warm wishes are appreachiated.
Sincerely,
Gerald Harvey
Don't Forget...
*Spelling Bee entry forms are due by Wednesday! I've only gotten a handful of forms so please be sure to send them in if you are interested.
*If you are going to be checking out your student to attend the NC State Fair please be sure to send in a quick note so that I can have them packed up and ready for you. Hopefully that will help you beat the traffic a little. Also, check out the "Village of Yesteryear" near the Graham building to help your student see how different things were back in the day.
*First Quarter ends on October 28th which is why we have a workday on October 31st. Please be sure not to send your student to school that day.
*On the 28th will be the K-2 Hunter Olympics from 2:30pm-3:30pm
*Conference verification forms are being sent out TODAY. I had to try and squeeze a few of you in around times that you asked for and not the time you signed up for. Please double check these and let me know if they work. The final schedule will be sent home next week.
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