The document provides information about upcoming events and lessons for Miss Newcomb's class. It discusses an upcoming field trip, standardized testing, focusing on short o sounds in reading, starting a social studies unit on communities, and continuing addition and subtraction strategies in math. It also provides the teacher's contact information and important dates.
The document provides information about upcoming events and lessons for Miss Newcomb's class. It discusses an upcoming field trip, standardized testing, focusing on short o sounds in reading, starting a social studies unit on communities, and continuing addition and subtraction strategies in math. It also provides the teacher's contact information and important dates.
Our field trip is planned for Monday, September 22nd!
If you volunteered to chaper-
one, Ill be contacting you soon! If you didnt sign up and would still like to go, its not too late! Let me know ASAP! Our NWEA tests start next week. This will be taken again in the winter, as well as in the spring. This test will show the areas that students need the most support and will show how they grow by the end of the year! Even though the tests are long, en- courage your child to do his or her best! Please make sure they get a good nights sleep each night and eat a good breakfast before coming to school or at school! We will be focusing on the short o sound. The word parts we will be working on are -ot, -op, -ock, -ob, and -og. Now that weve built our stamina and have started combining the different compo- nents of our Daily 5, students will get to start choosing which station they go to dur- ing our Reading block! We will start our first Social Studies unit! Our focus will be on communities, as we prepare for our Bluffton Experience field trip. We will brainstorm a list of things we would like to know about the places in our community and will even get a special visit form Mayor Ted Ellis! In writing, we will be focusing on conventions. We will talk about the importance of good handwriting, leaving spaces between our words, and using capital letters cor- rectly. In math, we will continue going over our addition and subtraction strategies. Our strategies next week are power punch, doubles, and using doubles to subtract! Remember to have your child complete his or her homework each night! Thank you for taking the time to write in your childs Friday journal! him, into, not, be Word Wall Words Upcoming Events Erin.newcomb@nwcs. k12.in.us 565-3135 ext.5110 Follow us on twitter: @MissNewcombLES1 Miss Newcombs Class Miss Newcombs Contact Information: Dates to Remember: 9/15: NWEA testing begins
9/18 Street Fair Pa- rade! Watch for the NWCS staff! :)
9/22 A Bluffton Experience Field Trip
9/23: Walk-a-thon money due
9/25: LES Walk-a- thon
9/29: Make up date for field trip September 12, 2014 To opt out of a paper copy of this newslet- ter and to sign up for an electronic copy, send me an email to Friday Journals Please remember to write in your childs Friday Journal each week- end. I know you are all extremely busy, but your child LOVES hear- ing what you write to him or her each week. It can be something as Weve had another great week together! Some of the high- lights from this week include reach- ing 15 minutes in our Work on Writ- ing, as well as maintaining 15 minutes in Read to Self. We also were able to utilize our iPads a lot this week as we began our Listen to Reading component of our Daily 5. In math, we are becoming really great at using our strategies to help us solve addition and sub- traction problems. This week we focused on subtracting all, counting on/back, and power punching for addition and subtraction. This week, students started writing their own stories during our Writers Workshop time. We dis- cussed all the different things that we can write about and how its im- portant to Write from the heart! Ask your child some of the things he or she included in the writing heart we created. I can already tell weve got some really great authors in our group! We had some fun activities for our short i work. Students en- joyed going on scavenger hunts throughout the room to find short i words! Every ones favorite part of the week was when we celebrated Cliffords birthday! We were able to enjoy punch and cookies as well as decorate birthday cards and read Clifford books. It was a crazy day, but we had lots of fun! Thanks for making sure your child wore red to school!
Page 2 Miss Newcombs Class Our Week in Review Popcorn Wednesday! Popcorn Wednesdays are in full swing! Dont forget to send a quarter to school with your child each Wednesday so that they can order a bag of popcorn from our PTO!