Nov. 2, 2012

                                  WEEKEND NEWS                                   

November 2, 2012

ELLIS MOTTO:   “I AM RESPONSIBLE AND ALWAYS LEARNING!!!”

ROOM 5 MOTTO:  “DO YOUR BEST!!!”

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

·         Continue sending in your Veteran’s Day stories.  We will display them on the hall bulletin boards for everyone to see.

·         Math Night is next Thursday, Nov. 8^th from 6:00-7:00.  We hope to see you there!

·         THANK YOU to all the parents who helped with our Halloween party!!!  We had a great time.  I appreciate all of your help.

·        THANK YOU for the donations of candy. I will be using them for classroom rewards/prizes for reading, homework, good behavior, etc.

·        McTeacher Night will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 13^th at the McDonald’s in Chubbuck by Wal-Mart.  Teachers will be there between 5:00-7:00.  Fourth grade teachers will be there between 5:00-5:30.  Ellis will receive a portion of the purchases made during this time.  Thanks in advance for your support!

·        We are once again scheduling parent meetings for the afternoons of Monday, Nov. 12 & 26.  Little by little we hope to meet with all parents.  If your child brought home a notice for you, please fill it out and return to school as soon as possible.

• Please remember to keep sending in BOX TOPS and Campbell Soup labels.  Have your extended family members save them too. Our school is able to earn money to help in our classrooms.

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK

•   Language:  Drops In The Bucket C10
•   Language:  Common & Proper Nouns: Have your children read the 2 sets of directions carefully. They must capitalize the proper nouns when they write them in the chart.
•   Math:  Drops In The Bucket #34
•   Reading:  read nightly and fill out your reading log.

                        

READING & LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR NEXT WEEK’S STORY

STORY:  Boss of the Plains

COMPREHENSION SKILLS & STRATEGIES:

Making Generalizations:  These are statements that are usually true, are based on facts or good reasons, and may include words like always or most

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS/VOCABULARY:  SUFFIXES –or, -er, -ist: meaning “someone who…” and USING CONTEXT CLUES:  students practice using clues in the sentences to understand the definition of an unknown word

LANGUAGE:  Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns

VOCABULARY WORDS:  adventurers, determined, frontier, gear, opportunity, pioneers, settlers

MATH SKILLS ADDRESS NEXT WEEK

TABLES, CHARTS, GRAPHS

•   answer and write comparison questions about a pictograph and bar graph
•   use a table to create horizontal and vertical bar graphs

MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION 

•  Factors and Prime Numbers:  we will be making “factor fireworks”

           

Have a wonderful weekend!

Denise Thompson