PARENTS AND STUDENTS
WEEK OF 11/16 1st Trimester will end this coming Friday, 11/20
TERRA NOVA- THIS TUESDAY, 17TH
4TH & 7TH GRADE WRITING ASSESSMENT
STUDENTS MUST HAVE SEVERAL #2 PENCILS WITH ERASERS(NO MECHANICALS).
STUDENTS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET UP FROM THEIR SEATS DURING THE TEST. THEY WILL HAVE BATHROOM BREAKS AND PENCILS SHARPENED PRIOR.
THIS IS A 30 MIN WRITING ASSESSMENT AND STUDENTS MUST TAKE IT VERY SERIOUS. THE RESULTS GO TO THE ARCHDIOCESE, MRS. PRESCOTT AND TO THE PARENTS.
*NO HOMEWORK WILL BE GIVEN ON MONDAY NIGHT*
Parents, please make sure all of the students belongings are labeled and money sent to the school must be in an envelope label with the student's name and its purpose.
*FRIDAY TEST FOLDER ARE DUE BACK ON MONDAY'S SIGNED AND DATED BY PARENT*
FRIDAY FOLDER- WILL GO HOME EVERY FRIDAY WITH TESTS. PARENTS, PLEASE SIGN, DATE AND WRITE THE # OF TESTS ON THE BACK OF THE FOLDER. STUDENTS ARE TO RETURN THEM ON MONDAY, NO LATER. PARENTS THIS IS A WAY OF COMMUNICATING HOW WELL YOUR CHILD IS DOING IN CLASS. TEST WITH A GRADE OF 72 AND BELOW, WILL BE STAMP (SIGNED AND RETURNED) ALONG WITH THE FOLDER.
*ASSIGNMENT PLANNERS*
PARENTS, PLEASE CHECK STUDENTS ASSIGNEMENT PAD FOR TEST & HOMEWORK. I WILL INITIAL THE ASSIGNMENT PAD ON A DAILY BASIS AND GRADUALLY STOP ONCE THE STUDENTS ARE IN THE ROUTINE OF COPYING THE HW.
*COMMUNICATION FOLDER*
The communication folder goes home everyday with homework handouts, upcoming events, anouncements, calendars, etc. Please ask for the folder daily and always returned papers as soon as possible. Do not wait for the due date or later. Sometimes unexpected situations occur.
HOMEWORK
Homework is very important. It is an essential part of the student's grade and must be completed at all times. Students should get into a routine for completing homework. I am concern, it is too soon for many students to have missed homework on the first full week of school.
Reminder, I do collect homework and grade it, any missed homework is not a good grade and would lead to a Thursday detention. Notes will begin to go home with those students who do not have their HW.
Students are responsible for keeping notes and class exercises in notebook at all times. It is important to use them as a references for completing HW assignments.
SCIENCE TEST CHAPTER 3
Congrats, to Gabriel for getting a perfect 102% on his test.
Students will have checkpoint lessons for homework. Students should not go ahead and complete checkpoint without the lesson being taught or assigned by Mrs. Samolewicz. Students must pay close attention and stop talking in class when Mrs. Samolewicz is teaching.
Once again review questions are given to the students prior to the test as a study guide to help them on the test. Students must answer the questions and study them for the test, along with paying attention in class and doing the homework assignments.
HOMEWORK-
Students will have nightly checkpoint lessons for homework, text books are needed in order to complete assignments. Students must read the questions carefully and answer them correctly.
READING
Students must bring a reading book to read in class during our downtime.
UNIT 2 THEME-
We begin with a new selection and Voc HW on Monday. Vocabulary is introduced and discussed in class.
New Selection- "The Swimming Hole "
Targeted Skill- Cause & Effect
Selection test- Thursday
Skills- Friday
ENGLISH
Part 2 of a sentence. Compound subjects and Compound Predicates
Subject Complement and reviewing Direct Object. Students will have an assessment possibly next week.
Students should be reviewing Prepositional Phrases nightly. We are reviewing them in class and some students are having trouble finding the preposition in a sentence and that's because they do not know them. It is important that students are able to identify prepositions in a sentence.
We will have an assessment this coming Friday, just on what we've worked on with Adjectives and Prepositions.
This is preparation for the Terra Nova Writing Assessment coming up November 17.
MATH
Chapter 2- Mrs. Prescott will see the results.
Introduction to Chapter 3- We should be done with this chapter by the end of the week. We will begin with Front-end estimation. This chapter is mostly on adding and subtracting (regrouping large numbers).
SOCIAL STUDIES
Students will continue working on the symbols of NJ. Handout will be given to students to find info on NJ. We will begin this assignment in class. Students will begin building a portfolio of NJ on handouts given.
New Jersey County Report- students will be assigned a county info to follow.
RELIGION
Chapter 4- The conscience and it's interpretaton. We are completing the chapter. The students will have review questions at the end of the Chapter on Wednesday. Test will be on Thursday, 11/19.
Saints Project to be completed this week. Students began working on them in class.
COMPUTER
Students must have a marble notebook at all times for class.
HW: students must go in with parents to our school website and write or print about something you saw or liked.
WRITING 4 & 7 Terra Nova Writing Assessment, November 17
Writing assignments throughout this week. capitalization and punctuation
Introduction-body-conclusion
Parents please encourage students to practice writing at home.
SPELLING
New lesson this week,
Pre-test on Monday
Homework due on Thursday
Test on final selection- Friday
SPANISH
We will begin lessons once, possibly twice a week.
Students were given some conversational phrases
VOCABULARY