Week of February 6th
Important Announcements:
*Time For Kids Packets - To help raise money for our school to keep our Time For Kids subscriptions, you can order magazine subscriptions or can fill out addresses for out-of-town relatives who potentially will want to buy magazine subscriptions. If you do not feel comfortable filling out the address booklet, you can go ahead and gather orders for magazine subscriptions with payments and put them in the envelope provided. For the packet of addresses, your child will receive a neat frog key chain. For each magazine subscription order your child will receive a frog for each. Thank you for your help!
*JA Biztown Field Trip forms -
The deadline was January 31st for JA Field trip form. I still am waiting for some permission slips if you can turn them in as soon as possible.
*Pizza Hut Book it! Program -
Our goal for February is to read one book that is at least 150 pages long. If they reach their goal they will receive a certificate from Pizza Hut for a free personal pan pizza. In order to earn the certificate for February they will need to either write a summary or fill out a book report form for the book that they have read with a parent signature to verify that they actually read the book in February. It will be due at the end of February. You can visit the website for neat resources on reading at home and reading out loud to your children. http://www.bookitprogram.com/parents/index.asp Goals are due Tuesday.
*Scholastic Orders are due February 10th. Either order online using the instructions below or fill out an order form when paper flyers come in. Sign up at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs. On the parent page, click the "Register" button in the "First Time Here?" section. Register for your own user name and password. When prompted, enter the one-time Class Activation Code (GZ3TY). This unique code ensures that your order is sent to me. Select the books you'd like to order -- choose from thousands of titles -- many more than in our monthly flyers. Send your order to me online by the due date and your child's books will be delivered directly to my classroom.
Grades: (Updated 1/30/12)
Go to website and click on the grades tab. Once you click on the tab, you will need to decide which grades you would like to view. I have several categories. Math Numbers, Reading Numbers, and Writing is how your child is doing on a 4, 3, 2, 1 scale in different math, writing, and reading areas. Math Percents is their overall percentage score in areas in Math. Spelling, Health, and Science are their overall percentage scores in each of those areas.
Once you have chosen the grades you would like to view you need to enter your child’s student id and pin. Their student id is their class number (1-23). Their pin is their lunch number. Once you have those you may view grades. Keep in mind that sometimes I update grades even when students who have been absent or needed extra time on an assignment have not turned that assignment in, so there may be some missing grades for your child.Do not worry about this. If there is a missing assignment and it is still there two weeks later, that means your child has a late assignment they need to turn in r that they were absent and failed to turn in their work they missed.
Also realize that reading numbers, writing numbers, and math numbers are assessed on a 4, 3, 2, 1 scale and NOT as a percentage. If you want to assess how your child is doing please look at the individual assignments to see how many 4s, 3s, 2s, or 1s your child has received. Do not look at the percentage.
We're hard at work on:
Math– Topic 13 -multiplying fractions
Writing – Expository writing
Grammar – possessive pronouns
Reading– asking questions
New books will be given out this week! We are doing a Roald Dahl author study and reading the books: Matilda, Boy, George's Marvelous Medicine, Elsio Trot, and The Witches.
Spelling - Spelling includes words that end ject. Students also have two personal words that they choose to learn how to spell, and on the last test I will give two application words that follow the skill, but have not been
reviewed by students.
Science/Health – the scientific method