September
25, 2015
Dear Families,
It’s been a great week together!
Our daily morning writing
workshop has really taken off. This is a class that likes to write and story tell. In this first unit of writing the focus
is on writing true small moment
stories.
or Personal Narratives. This week we
have been practicing using dialogue, as well as noticing the difference between
just reporting out information and rich and vivid story telling. Mentor books have been helping to demonstrate
the sort of writing we are after.
It’s hard!
Be on the lookout each
week (Mondays) for a new list of Spelling Words. The words are taken from the
previous Friday Spelling Review. It is up to each student to practice mastering
the spelling words using the Word Work Menu for ideas. If a student has only a few or no
spelling words to practice that week then content related Vocabulary Words will
come home. Parents please
help out with quizzing them on the words and/or doing creative word games. It makes a big difference. Thanks in advance for the yearlong
support.
This
week has been Maine Harvest Week for our lunch program. Our class helped out the kitchen
workers on Monday by husking locally grown corn for the whole school to enjoy
at lunch. Wow… that’s a lot of corn! Also our class did morning announcements all
week…! FunJ Get the scoop from your kiddo. And we
are getting very good with our class and school fire drill procedures when the
loud, attention-getting alarm goes off. Lots of practice this week.
Upcoming
dates to remember: Picture
Day is next Thursday and Fall Parent/Teacher conference dates
are 10/21 and 10/27. I’ll have an
on-line sign up for conferences in October.
Enjoy
the weekend with your family…! Best regards~