Just a quick post to help your student with their culture project. Your child may go to http://web.esc20.net/access. I have given them the username and password to access the online encyclopedia.
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Before I offer any updates on what’s been going on with my students, I just want to spend a few minutes to offer a special thanks particularly to my students’ parents who serve our country. Thank you for what you do for each one of us. Thank you for protecting our freedom. May you be blessed abundantly. We also would like to invite you to join us for our special Giving Thanks Luncheon next Friday, Nov. 19. A brief little rundown on our activities next week.. We will have a math benchmark for both 3rd and 4th graders on Tuesday. The 4th grade students will take their writing benchmark on Monday and Wednesday of next week. The students also will have a science test on Thursday covering some earth science. The students will have a study guide to help them study. Friday is our Giving Thanks Luncheon. Also, just a little heads up. I am sending home some book orders at the request of students. The school will be hosting a Scholastic Book Fair in December with profits benefitting the school, so you may want to wait til December to get some books for the Holidays. I will be submitting the book order by Monday, Nov. 15. With the hope of books being shipped to us soon after Thanksgiving if not before. Our students are participating the Classroom Cares program which will donate books to underprivileged children when we reach our goal of reading 140 books. So let’s keep reading! Thinking of hosting a pajama party when we reach our goal… On the math front, students are expected to be learning their multiplication facts. I will start testing them this next week and help them establish some math goals to reach by December. I will be sending home some Turkey math for the holidays for your child’s enjoyment. The holiday’s are fast approaching.:)! I am embedding a link to my the spelling list for this week in case, you need clarification on the list at home. Spelling list wk 8. We will be continuing our read-aloud story… Old Yeller and then compare the book to the movie within the next two weeks. Be seeing you soon! Just finished watching my favorite Monday night show…Dancing with the Stars. I figured enough time has passed since I last posted a message. I’m sure some of you have heard your child talk about our Roly Poly Amusement Park. The students will work together to design and create their own amusement park that features some of the simple machines and forces in motion that we are learning about in science. Your child created a list and has been encouraged to bring some recyclables to help build their design. Next week is Student Led Conference day on Wednesday. It is also our annual Mod III roller coaster building contest. We could use some empty paper towel rolls. So let’s be Green and recycle and reuse. Please send ‘em in. Be on the look out for my e-mail invite to your student led conference. We will have our first field trip of the school year to the Janet F. Harte Library next week. Be sure to get your child a library card this week. Students love checking out library books. Our local library has many great resources available. One of the resources includes a an online downloadable listening library. My own children particularly enjoy listening to books. I bought an inexpensive MP3 player for under $50 bucks and now my boys are plugged in even more to reading than ever. They enjoy reading along in chapter books or sometimes listening together as a family when we go on road trips. Currently, they are enjoying the book series Artemis Fowl. When they were younger, we enjoyed such favorites as the Magic Tree house. My class is participating in Scholastic’s Our Classroom Cares reading program. Students are asked to read 10 books and log them on the book mark I gave them on Friday. After we reach our goal, Scholastic will donate books to underprivileged children. Let’s read, read, read. Coming up in October is another reading program, and the students will receive special rewards. More on that later…. Just a little update… I placed the book order this weekend and we should receive it within the next 10 days in case your student is wondering. All the students have selected a book to read and do a book report and a related “activity” (project). The Book Report is due on Sept. 24. Students also are to select an activity or project to complete with their book report. Activity choices: Book Report Tic Tac Toe 2010. For this report, students only need to select one tic tac toe square. Looking forward to another exciting week.
The school year is off to a great start, and its only been two weeks since I last posted. My hope is to use this blog to keep parents updated and to provide a tool for students to access some of my favorite learning sites. See the links to the right. This past week students received their student planners and we are learning to update it daily to keep track of our school assignments. I hope you’ve had a chance to thumb through it. It has some great reference material. The students particularly like the Multiplication chart in the planner. We even tabbed the page! Students have been working on IXL and practicing their math. 3rd graders were working on skip counting, and 4th graders refreshing thier multiplication facts. SPECIAL LABOR DAY ASSIGNMENT: Bring in an empty cereal box, shoe box, or other recyclable container to use for a “diorama” for social studies. Also book orders were sent out. If you would like to order online, you may click on the secure link on the sidebar. My class code is GJP3W. They’re BACK! Hip! Hip! Hooray! I am still so excited for the school year. I love getting to know the students. Today, my students will do a little webquest. Yesterday we did some text quests and today we get to get on the computer and start some new explorations. Students will be exploring some data on Native Americans: http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/dailard/sw/index.html
. My goodness! It’s been awhile since I’ve spent any time on my blog…. I went to a science training yesterday, and we talked a little bit about building neural connections, and how if we don’t use it we could lose it. I’m going to get a chance to put my brain in motion. I’m excited because this upcoming school year. I get to teach all subjects and I am so excited about integrating curriculum areas. As much as I love reading, I love math and science more; or at least I’ve had a longer romance with math and science. As a kid, I loved math and science, then as an adult, I gained a huge appreciation of children’s books. Who doesn’t love a good story? I get giddy with excitement when I think about the fun things we can do with science and extending the learning into reading, writing, math, and even social studies! I am looking forward to the fun. As I sit in my comfy home, thinking about the school year. I see my imaginary students walking to the beach collecting shells, trash, and other scientifc specimens for evaluation. I see us outside observing, recording data. I see us learning, researching and just loving to learn. Summer is marching on and the school year is on the horizon. I have been horrible this year about keeping up with my blog. I’m so sorry. A student came in today, and reminded me to update it. The next two weeks I am experimenting with a possible reading program that we may adopt next year. It really is very exciting in that students can access the story text from home without taking home a text book. The program even has an audio feature. This week the 3rd graders are reading “Beauty and the Beast” (pg. 406). They will also be doing a reader’s theater production in class, and on Wednesday the students will get to see the ballet version of ” Beauty and the Beast”. Some time with in the next 2 weeks, we will also see the Disney version of the same story. If your student would like to read the e-version of “Beauty and the Beast”, click on the READING LINK along the right column “Texas Treasures Reading Sample”. Students will need to log-in and I have provided them with the username and password to use (on student homework planning sheet). Once you are logged in students will need to click on the 3rd grade Resources and then the Student link. When the text book volume is loaded, the story is in the volume with the tiger on it. Students can enter pg. 406 to go to the story. 4th graders are reading the story “Wild Horses” in the 4th grade text of the same on-line series. “Wild Horses” can be found on page 205. Looking forward to the Lone Star Stampede on Friday…. Hope to see you there. |
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