Dear Families,
Yikes! We are changing seasons! Please check with your child this weekend that they have the necessary warm clothing that will be needed in the days to come. Warm coats, boots, mittens, hats, etc.
Next week is a short week. Students will only have a half day on Wednesday, so will be picked up by buses some time around 12:30. Talk with your child about their plan for after school that day. Because it is a short week, the spelling list handed out today will be tested the following Friday.
Math: We are well in to Geometry. Please note on the Study Link packet if you have any questions about the material going home. At times, students will be or may have brought home their Geometry Template, which is a valuable (both monetarily, and for learning) tool. We have talked as a class about the importance of being responsible with our materials and not losing the tools we need to use.
Literacy: We are lucky enough to have Mrs. Holty, an EL teacher, to work with our class. The two of us, teach as a team during this period of the day. This allows to do some fun things with two teachers in the class at one time. Lately, we have been working on asking questions about what we are reading. Please ask your students about what they have been reading about in the 'Daybook'. (Woody Guthrie, B.B. King, and Opera singer Marian Anderson)
Missing Work: We had a lot of students with missing work last Friday. We have a routine where students spend their lunch and recess time on Friday, finishing any work that they have not completed yet, while eating their lunch in the room. We call it "Study Hall". Please try to communicate with your students to help them develop the responsibility to turn in quality work on time, so they don't have to spend their lunch/recess doing make-up work. If students do not finish their missing work during this time, they are to bring their missing work report home and finish missing assignments for Monday, to start the next week fresh. As a class, we have done a decent job with turning in our work throughout the beginning of the year, but last week we seemed to slip up a little.
Hope you all had a good weekend, and are looking forward to the short week.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Mr. Norman
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