Important Announcements:
*Happy Labor Day! Enjoy the long weekend!
*Because of Labor Day, our
Monday special will be moved to Friday.
We will not have computer lab as a special next week. We will have music on Friday.
*I think there has been some
confusion about timed tests. Fact
fluency is an important skill that will help your child be successful in
mathematics. We take weekly timed tests
to help assess our fact fluency. These
tests are graded; however, they do not go in the grade book. We have daily math facts practice during
class, and I encourage you to work with your child on math facts at home as
well.
*Dictation test scores were
pretty low this week. When we take the
dictation test on Thursday, I remind students before the test that the only
three things I grade dictation for are: capital letters at the beginning of the
sentence, the correct end punctuation mark, and that the spelling words are
spelled correctly. I know spelling words
were a bit more challenging this week, but I am still surprised at home many
students forget to capitalize the beginning of the sentences (even with
multiple reminders)! This is something
that we are going to continue to work on in class. You can reinforce this at home by having your
child write answers in complete sentences and checking to make sure those
sentences have capital letters and correct end punctuation marks.
*Thank you to those who have
already sent in pictures of your child out and about in Brownsburg. We have been studying geography during social
studies. We are going to be talking
about the geography of Brownsburg. As
you are out and about in town, if you do not mind taking your child’s picture
in front of businesses, neighborhoods, parks, etc. and sending it to me, I
would greatly appreciate it! Taking a
picture on your cell phone and e-mailing it to me electronically is fine! This will become part of our geography
display. Thanks for your help with this!
*If anyone is able to come in
and volunteer next week, send me an e-mail and let me know what day and time
works best for you! Thanks!
*We took our spelling test on
the computer again today, and the children did a great job! Your child also took the reading test on
paper. After he/she was done, I had
him/her enter it in the computer using the Reading Street website to practice
taking the test online. Stapled to your
child’s reading test is his/her computer test.
Some students changed their answers when taking the computer test, and I
counted the answers on the written reading test since that was taken
first. Next week we are only going to
take the reading test on the computer.
We will not take a paper copy first.
*I believe in building relationships with the children both
inside my classroom and outside the classroom.
If your child participates in any extracurricular activities (sports,
dance, theater, etc.), or has any other events that he/she would like to invite
me to, please let me know, and I will do my best to come!
*The blog will also be updated with this information as well
so if you need to see it again visit http://misswhisman.blogspot.com
.
A Look at Next Week:
Science/ Health
Science/ Health
Life Cycles
Spelling
Words with consonant digraphs (wh, tch, sh, ch, th)
Reading
Story: The Strongest
One
Skill: Facts and Details
Math
Doubles Facts; Turn-Around, Doubles, and +9; Addition Facts
Maze; Domino Facts
Social Studies
Labor Day study
English/Writing
Review the writing traits of Ideas, Organization, Fluency,
and Conventions
