Hello to everyone!
Thank you for a great round of parent
conferences! I appreciate the positive feedback you gave me, and I want to say
thank you for teaching your child at home. I know that being a homeschool
teacher was not in your plans. But you have made it work, and I appreciate
that.
Here are this week’s announcements…
****This
week’s schedule is as follows:***
Monday: Team 2 at school; Team 1 at home
Tuesday-Friday: All kids here!
Wednesday: NO LATE START. We will no longer have late
start Wednesday.
*Veteran’s day is Wednesday, November 11th.
We have school on this day, and I will be doing a lesson on what this holiday
means. We will make cards for veterans. If you have a veteran in your family
that you would like your child to make a card for, please let me know!
*This week is Red Ribbon Week. Please see information about Red Ribbon dress-up days from Mrs. Behler, our Health teacher, below
November 9-November 13
Monday: Be
Happy, Be Brave, Be Drug Free!
Wear Red to kick off the week
***This includes our Remote Team 1
students***
Tuesday: From
Head to Toe I’m drug free!
Wear crazy hair and socks
Wednesday: Team
Up Against Drugs!
Wear your favorite sports team
attire
Thursday: Our Future is Looking Bright without Drugs!
Wear tie-dye or bright
colors
Friday: Willow
Creek Chooses to be Drug Free!
Wear Willow Creek
spirit wear
* Scholastic books have been ordered! They
will be here next week sometime.
*Just a reminder…school lunch is FREE until December!
What are we
doing this week??? See below!
Literacy *Final assessment on parts of a story *Introduce non-fiction texts. *Good readers can identify non-fiction text features authors include in their books. *Good readers can use non-fiction text features to help them identify the main idea of a text. Mathematics *Fact Fluency through sums of 10 *Understand the meaning of the equal sign *Balanced equations *Using subtraction to solve change unknown/missing addend problems (missing addend : eg. ____ +4 = 7) Word Study/Grammar *Spelling/sight word program begins this week *short /u/ spelling list *stretching and blending sounds */ch/ digraph Unit (Social Studies and/or Science) N/A Writer’s Workshop *Good writers use different tools to help them solve spelling
problems. *Good writers can “write on” and add more details to their writing. *Final assessment for this unit of writing |