Daily homework/Cookie dough reminder

Novel Studies
Writing and spelling homework due
no math tonight

cookie dough fundraiser money due

Daily homework

Daily writing (write once this week about the noise in the hall)
Novel Studies
Spelling--Lesson 9
Math--S-L 4-3 and blue sheet
Study math vocabulary (test next week)

Plan and Profile sheet--give to parent

Weekly update

This short week was exciting--we started our study of the American Colonies, wrapped up our Explorer reports, started sewing a craft project, and won the first round of the Running Club! Oh, and we participated in Jazzercise this afternoon. We're ready to rest this weekend!

Thank you, Parents and Students, for spending time with me at conferences. We set some important goals for the children to strive for this year. Please keep in touch with me as the year progresses--I need to know when your children are needing more (or less!) work, or are confused about what we're studying.

Have a great weekend! As usual, only novel studies for homework.

Daily homework

Spelling Unit 8 due Friday.
Daily writing due Friday. (Today we had Art Lit, and a great informative piece would be about Paul Klee and expressionism.)
Explorer projects due tomorrow (all pieces are due--yellow organizer, map of travels, timeline, folder with colored cover and bibliography, 6 paragraph report.)

We need needles and thread to do a sewing project. The thread needs to be white.

One student asked for the website that our school's weekly facts quizzes come from. It's TheMathWorksheetSite.com. (I checked on the site and it's something you have to pay for.)

Google Docs

Today I taught the students how to use Google Docs to type their Explorer reports. This is handy because they can work on the report at home and school. The hardest part will be getting used to logging on. User names are the students' first name initial, middle name initial, last name, and number of birth month. (If there's no middle name, just skip that part.)

For example, I would be kestratton09@bsd48.org (karen elizabeth stratton, birth month september)
They received their passwords today, and I can give them directly to you at conferences this week as well.

Reports do not have to be typed. They can be hand written/printed neatly on notebook paper. The reports are due on Tuesday Nov. 12 when we return to school. We will finish the rest of the project in school and be done by Wed. hopefully. Our next unit is Colonies.

Daily homework

Reading: Novel studies
Math: S-L 4-1 and Blue sheet 4-1
Science: 2 worksheets

No weekly writing or spelling this week. Will return next week!

Conference reminders

I sent conference reminders home with students tonight.

Also, so many children did poorly on the spelling test that I assigned weekend homework of writing the missed words 10 times each.