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Room 104: Discovering the "treasures" of learning!

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Week of:  September 6 - September 10, 2010

Challenge Words: else, guest, attention, heard, listen

(These WILL be on Friday's test)

**Please see below for a copy of this week's newsletter.  It has also been e-mailed to all of you! (Not yet....it will be in future weeks!)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Religion	No School Happy Labor Day!				All School Mass 8:45
Math		PW 2 (This is the letters and numbers at the bottom of the page)	PW 3 (Do not do the #s we crossed out:19-24)	PW 4 (#1-16 all; mixed review - even only)
Reading			Read fluency sentences two times to parent.  Have parent sign your notebook after you read.	Review story and vocabulary words - test tomorrow
English/Writing
Spelling		pages 11-12	Write challenge words 5 times each in your notebook	Study words - test tomorrow
Science
Social Studies
Other			**Students should have a folder and notebook for Spanish**	**Students should have a folder and notebook for Spanish**	**Students should have a folder and notebook for Spanish**

Room 104 Specials:

Monday:    Gym (Wear clothes to school)

Tuesday:    Mass, Art, Semester Rotation (Room 104 has Spanish first semester)

Wednesday:    Semester Rotation, Library Exchange

Thursday:    Music

Friday:     Music

Mrs. Mitchell's Wish List:

• Clorox Wipes (To help keep our desks clean)
• Tissues (ALWAYS welcome)
• Glue Sticks
• Paper (Scrap, Drawing, Computer...we'll take anything!)
• Popsicle Sticks

Weekly Newsletter:

Room 202 Parents,

            This is the first newsletter of the year.  In future weeks, I plan to email this to you.  However, I am still waiting for a few email addresses from parents, so I printed a paper copy for each of you.  Please read this carefully, as I know it is sometimes overloaded with information.   If you have any questions, feel free to email me at: stbjmitchell@hotmail.com

Have a great week!                                          Mrs. Mitchell 

Reminders/Updates

• Many forms came home in last week’s Wednesday envelope.  Please check that you have returned everything that needs to be returned to school.
• I sent home a STUDENT INFORMATION SHEET for my records.  If you have not returned that, please do so as soon as possible.
• We have an All-School Mass on Friday at 8:45.  Please join us!
• The first Scholastic Book order will come home this week.  Please check the Wednesday envelope for it.  Orders are due by Monday, September 13. Please make checks payable to Scholastic. 

This week’s schedule: 

Religion – We are beginning with Chapter 1: God Sends Us His Own Son.

Math – We are moving right along in Chapter 1.  This chapter begins with a review of addition and subtraction concepts.  Throughout this chapter, we will learn a few new vocabulary words.  These vocabulary words will be on the chapter test at the end of the chapter.  Students will eventually have these words in their notebook. 

Reading- Our first story is Officer Buckle and Gloria (Pgs. 16-37).  Typically, we will introduce the story and vocabulary words on Monday and read the story on Tuesday.  However, since we did not have school yesterday, we did a double dose of reading.  Today, we discussed the vocabulary and read the story.  We will have a vocabulary/story comprehension test on Friday.  New this year, Friday’s reading test will also include a short skills test.  This week the reading skill is decoding words.  Throughout the week, we will practice using syllable patterns to decode long words.  This skill will appear on Friday’s test.

English/Writing – Our grammar skill this week is sentences.  We will identify what makes a sentence a sentence.  We will also start our creative writing.  I am going to use the “6 + 1 Traits of Writing” Model to teach writing.  I will share more about this model with you as we start our writing. 

Spelling – This week our words have short a or short e vowel sounds.  The challenge words for the week are: else, guest, attention, heard, and listen.  The challenge words do not always follow the same spelling pattern as the basic 15 words.  These challenge words, however, will appear in the story.  Please practice all 20 words because all 20 will be tested on Friday.  Your child has all of these words in their notebook from the pretest we took this morning.

Handwriting- We will start with a quick review of printing, but move quickly into a review of cursive.  Students do not have to write in cursive…yet.  Keep practicing!

Social Studies/Science- Our two days are Monday and Thursday.  We will switch for the first time on Thursday.  We will start with MAPS in Social Studies and PLANTS in Science.

Click Below for the Weekly School Calendar

Click Below for the NEW LogoWear Order Form
EXTENDED UNTIL 9/24/10