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

Oct. 26, 2012

WEEKEND NEWS

OCTOBER 26, 2012

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

ROOM 5 MOTTO:  “DO YOUR BEST!!!”

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

·         Please read the attached Veteran’s Day information.  We would love to honor your family’s veterans!

·         Red Ribbon Week (Drug Awareness Week) Oct. 29 – Nov. 2

Monday:  Pajama Day

Tuesday:  Crazy Hair Day

Wednesday:  Red Day: Wear as much red as possible!

Thursday:  Inside Out Day (wear clothes inside out)

Friday:  Extreme Ellis Spirit Day (wear lots of Ellis colors: pink, gray, blue)

·         Donation of Candy:  If you would like to donate a bag of candy for classroom rewards/prizes for reading, homework, good behavior, etc. I would greatly appreciate it.  All of the Halloween candy will be on clearance soon. J

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK

•   Language:  Drops In The Bucket C9

•   Math:  Subtraction Sheet 20

•   Math:  Drops In The Bucket #33

•   Reading:  read nightly and fill out your reading log.

                        

TECHNOLOGY AND IDAHO HISTORY

Our class has started creating our Power Point slide show project.  We are making slides for each chapter we are studying in Idaho History.  This is an on-going project, and students will share their finished projects with you in the spring.

READING & LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR NEXT WEEK’S STORY

STORY:  Tanya’s Reunion

COMPREHENSION SKILLS & STRATEGIES:

Making Inferences:  Readers use clues from the author and experiences from their own lives to make inferences about story characters.

To make inferences, think about your own experiences and relate it to what you have read about the character.

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS/VOCABULARY:  A word root is part of a word that has meaning but cannot stand alone. Prefixes and suffixes are added to word roots.

spect means "to look at"

sign means "a sign or mark"

LANGUAGE:  Singular and Plural Nouns

VOCABULARY WORDS:  gathering, homestead, arrangements, reunion, persisted, pitches in, satisfaction, great-uncle

WRITING:  character sketch and run-on sentences

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

·         solve multiplication and division comparison word problems

·         practice multiplication and division facts

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Thanks for all you do to help our students succeed!

Denise Thompson

                 

Oct. 19, 2013

WEEKEND NEWS

October 19, 2012

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

ROOM 5 MOTTO:  “DO YOUR BEST!!!”

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

*  Donation of Candy:  If you would like to donate a bag of candy for classroom rewards/prizes for reading, homework, good behavior, etc. I would greatly appreciate it.  All of the Halloween candy will be on clearance soon.

*  Please sign and return the permission slips for the ISU Symphony field trip for Wed., Oct. 24.

*  Red Ribbon Week (Drug Awareness Week) will be held Oct. 29 – Nov. 2.  These are the days:

*  Monday:  Pajama Day

*  Tuesday:  Crazy Hair Day

*  Wednesday:  Red Day: Wear as much red as possible!

*  Thursday:  Inside Out Day (wear clothes inside out)

*  Friday:  Extreme Ellis Spirit Day (wear lots of Ellis colors: pink, gray, blue)

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK

v        Language:  Drops In The Bucket C8

v        Language:  Subjects & Predicates

v        Math:  Drops In The Bucket #32

v        Reading:  read nightly and fill out your reading log.

                   

READING & LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR NEXT WEEK’S STORY

STORY:  Tomas and the Library Lady

COMPREHENSION SKILLS & STRATEGIES:

Sequence of Events: identify order of story events, identify signal words

Predict/Infer:  use clues from the text and personal experience  to make a prediction or inference about the story

Drawing Conclusions:  use story details to figure out what the author does not explain directly.

SPELLING:  /ou/ and /o/

LANGUAGE:  Common and Proper Nouns

VOCABULARY WORDS:  storyteller, borrow, check out, eager, glaring, lap, chattered

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

·         solve multiplication and division comparison word problems

·         practice multiplication and division facts 0-12     

                 

Thanks for all you do to help our students succeed!

Denise Thompson