Angelville News, October 10-14

BON DIA WEEK 6!
October 10, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!


Notices
* Each week we will have a new ROCK STAR! Our Rock Star this week is Samantha! Samantha will be featured all week. She is also able to bring in things to share with the other students. Each student will have the opportunity to be the Angelville Community Rock Star!

*Each week a Homework packet will go home on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week our Homework packet consists of a reading log, and a T-shirt design activity.

*The conference schedules have been made and the slips will do out next week.
*Friday the 5/6 Girls will lead us in our Prayer Service beginning at 8:45am.
*Parents, please wait for your students at the end of the day by the flag pole. As the classes unfold into the courtyard we need to be able get through and dismiss our students one at a time. Thank you for your cooperation.

READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – In writers workshop we continue to write different kinds of stories. We are working on a Bravery story and will begin an embarrassed story later this week. Before the end of the month each student will have the opportunity to choose one story they wrote to edit and publish for our next Published Party.


In Readers Workshop we put up our Mental Movies. I am working with each one of the students to listen to them read and talk about ways in which they can improve their reading. I plan to re-assess all students prior to conferences. We will also demonstrate that we can pause when reading to recap main characters and events. We will also look to see how new parts of a book fit with old ones.

MATH – In 4th gr
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RELIGION – Last week we started our Steps to Respect Program. We will continue with talking about friendship and what is a FRIEND?
This week we will finish up our first chapter in our Religion books, The Holy Spirit guides us to become Church. Early next week will be our first test.

SPELLING – (NOT FOR MSL STUDENTS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WORK) each week a new list of spelling words is given. Monday is a pre-test and spelling assignment. Tuesday and Wednesday they are writing spelling sentences. Thursday is an additional spelling worksheet. Fridays we have our spelling test, turn in all of our spelling from the week, and then are able to play word games. Each day an assignment is assigned to work on in class. If they are unable to complete the assignment, they need to complete it at home. At the end of the week all of the spelling work is neatly put together, stapled and turned in.

SOCIAL STUDIES – This week in Social Studies we will read week 5 of our Studies Weekly Newspaper on region in Washington. We will have a quiz on Friday. I will post a review sheet on the blog. We will also work on one in class.

SCIENCE – Last week we made metric sticks in science and started to measure different things in the classroom. First, by estimating how many meters or centimeters something is, and then by actually measuring the objects with our meter sticks.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!