10/10

Don't forget about today's 5:00 Title I parent meeting.  Thanks!

Finish IRA and study for spelling & vocabulary tests.

10/9

CPA rough drafts are due tomorrow!  Please time yourself reading your speech as if you were presenting it, and write you time at the top by your name.

Finish spelling & vocabulary choices.

This month's genre is mystery! [Insert evil laugh here.]  Students will receive a form to fill out after fall break.

10/8

Work on CPA report (due Thurs.).

*Report cards went home w/the orange communication folders!  Please sign and return ASAP.  I am so proud of our kids!  We have 17 students who made honor roll and 6 who earned honorable mention!

Finish sci. WB p. 18-21.

Work on spelling & vocabulary choices.

10/7

Finish math WB p. 67 (7-11) and p. 68 AND finish any AM that wasn't finished in class today.

Work on CPA report (due Thurs.).

Sp in ABC order in agenda

10/3

If you haven't already started, work on writing your CPA report.  I told students today to read them aloud as if they were giving their speech and time themselves.  If the report is 4 minutes or longer, they are probably on track.  The actual report is due next Thursday, 10/10.

Study math p. 91-148 for Unit 2 TEST tomorrow.  Even though we didn't complete every lesson in the book, we have worked on the concepts. 

Study for spelling & vocabulary tests.

READ!  Tomorrow is the end of the nine weeks and the last day to meet the 6 book/250,000 word goal! 

10/2

Today has been a great day!  The kids earned two stars for good behavior while I was in a meeting, so we are up to 60 total.  That called for a reward, so we grabbed our lunches and went to the playground for a picnic and extra recess.

We have started a fun little project to put dull, overused, boring words to rest.  Each child drew a "boring" word from a box.  Their job now is to come up with more interesting synonyms for their word.  (A few students are partners.)  We will be making tombstones to put these boring words to rest- and to display better word choices.  Feel free to help your child come up with "better" words.  I have not set a date yet to make our tombstones, but it will be either Friday or early next week.

HW:
Finish CPA intro paragraph.
Finish spelling & vocabulary choices.

*Unit 2 math test Friday (+/- decimals)

*This month's genre is mystery.

10/1

*In the communication folder today you will find a pink letter from the principal and an orange newsletter.  Please keep these home and mark your calendars.  Thanks!

For HW:
Finish sci. WB p. 10-15.
Work on spelling & vocabulary choices (due Thurs.).