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Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more. What's Happening small medium large Dear Parents and Students, November 17, 2009 Field Trip The children had a wonderful time on the field trip to Historic Oakview. They were able to pick cotton, make butter, and wash clothes with a wash board. They learned about life back in the 1800s. Be sure to ask your child about what he or she learned. Thank you to our chaperones! In-house Field Trip for Science On Monday, Nov. 23, the children will have a lesson on Matter (solids, liquids, and gases). It will be at school in their classroom. We have begun our science unit on Matter and Changes. The in-house field trip should be a very enriching experience to go along with our unit. Math We are busy learning about numbers to 999. We just finished the unit on problem solving and are now focusing on making numbers in many ways as well as double digit addition. In small groups, the children have been practicing counting money and making change. Please work with your child to make sure that he or she can accurately count coins. This takes practice. Reading This quarter we are focusing on Non-fiction texts in class. We are learning to identify key concepts and the main topic of the texts. Book Fair Thank you to those who bought a book for our classroom library. The children love getting new books to read! Interims Interims are sent home this week to indicate any area in which your child may need to be supported. Not all children will receive a report. If your child received one, please sign it and return it. Writing We have been learning how to write a paragraph to report information. As we learned about the pioneers, we also learned how to write a topic sentence, at least three supporting sentences, and a closing sentence for the paragraphs that we wrote. The paragraphs were about pioneer food, clothes, travel, fun, and school. These are hanging on the wall at school. We have also discussed various types of poetry. The children wrote a wonderful acrostic poem for Thanksgiving. The children are learning to go through the Writing Process. They are prewriting first with a sketch and then drafting from the picture. We have begun to practice revising by using questioning to help us add more details to the picture. We are also working on sustaining the time on task for writing for twenty minutes uninterrupted. For the writing grade, the children will be required to write a personal narrative that has at least ten sentences on topic. The piece will need a beginning, a middle, and an end. It will need to contain some details and elaboration.The writing piece will need to show that the child is using punctuation and capitalization effectively. We are practicing these daily during writing workshop. Reading At the end of each week, the children take a comprehension test over our weekly story. If your child doesn't have any errors, I am attaching a Chili Award. I will do this until I run out of them. Also, the child's name goes up on the chart (the Comprehension Corral). They are doing a very good job on their comprehension tests. We now have our class pets! We have two African frogs! Great job, everyone for earning money to buy them. Thanks again to Mrs. McCabe for going to buy them for us! Classroom Volunteers Mrs. Vaughan and Mrs. Burns have volunteered to be our grade chairs. Thank you so much! We will have our first learning experience coming up September 18. When you receive your class roster, please let these parents know if you would be able to help with the learning experience by working with the children or sending in materials. Mrs. Seaboch has already done our class roster. Thank you, Mrs. Seaboch. Mrs. Albin has volunteered to be our Character Ed. teacher. Thank you, Mrs. Albin. If you volunteered for other jobs, you will be notified soon. Reminders: • PE day is Friday. Please make sure your child has running shoes. • Please remember to send a water bottle with your child. • Please remember to send a sweatshirt for our cold classroom. • Please remember to send in a healthy snack. I could use extra snack if you are able to send in extra occasionally. Some children forget frequently. Mystery Readers I will call or email you a few days before your visit. I will post a schedule on the Teacherweb soon. Those of you who want to add your names may email me. If you cannot read on a day that I wrote you in, just let me know. Thank you to everyone who signed up to read! Specials Schedule Monday - Music Tuesday - Media Wednesday - Art Thursday - Technology Friday - P.E. Your Teacher, Mrs. Barr Please read my short biography that is located under Teacher. Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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