Friday, September 14, 2012

Weekly Update 09/14/12


Important Announcements:

*We currently do not have a lead parent to organize our classroom parties.  If you are interested in this responsibility, please contact me or the Vice-President of the PTSG Chrissy Nelson at chrissy@dicklentz.com.

*Dog Jog took place today.  We had a fun time while earning money for our school! 

*Delaware Trail has a partnership with Connection Pointe Christian Church.  This week we had volunteers from Connection Pointe come in and begin working with each of our classes.  I have a volunteer Tuesday for an hour and Wednesday for half an hour.  These volunteers work with a few students at a time in the area of reading.  I am very excited about this partnership! 

*We will be taking a test over our Geography unit in social studies on Wednesday, September 19th

*Next week the class will be doing the mile run during P.E.  This will take place on Thursday, September 20th. 

*The first PTSG meeting of the year will be held on Thursday, September 20th at 6:30 in our cafeteria. 

*Mrs. Kraus will be in our classroom on Friday, September 21st.  She will be teaching a character education lesson. 

*Homecoming is Friday, September 21st!

*Smile!  Picture Day has been scheduled for Thursday, September 27th.  Order forms will be sent home soon. 

A Look at Next Week:

Science/ Health
Weather

Spelling
Works with ack and ock

Reading
Story: The Enormous Turnip
Skill: sequence
Daily Five: Read to someone; build stamina; conferences for good-fit books
Math

Frames-and-Arrows Problems, “What’s My Rule?”, Subtraction Facts, Addition/Subtraction Facts

Social Studies
Geography; send Miss Whisman pictures of your child around town

English
Nouns

Writing
Procedures; building stamina