November 7-11, 2016

Specials
(Refer to your flipbook for a reference of what each day is)

Monday - 3

Tuesday - No School

Wednesday - 4

Thursday - 5

Friday - 6

Upcoming Events & Reminders
Homework needs to come back in the blue folder every day.

November 8 - NO SCHOOL **CONFERENCE DAY**
November 9 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast
November 10 - PTA Meeting 6:30PM
ELL Thanksgiving Dinner 5-7pm
November 18 - 1st Grading Period Student Recognitions (I will let you know if your child is receiving an award closer to time).
November 23-25 Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL
December 4 - PTA 5K
December 9th - PTA Winter Dance 6-8pm

Spelling List

We will begin differentiating spelling lists this week. Your student will know which list he/she is on.

LIST A (Green and Yellow Reading Groups)

hill

well

buzz

pass

off

LIST B (Orange and Blue Reading Groups)

small

grass

stuff

chill

class

off

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can write to tell how to do something.
I can read, write, and identify words with double consonant endings.
I can correctly use possessive nouns. 
I can tell the main idea of a nonfiction text.
I can subtract in many ways.

Week in Review
In reading this week, we dove deeper into identifying the main idea of a fictional text. To begin, I brought in several items in a mystery bag and asked the students to identify the main idea of my items. (Bear with me - these pictures were snagged in the middle of teaching so they are NOT the best!)

With these items, the students helped me identify the main idea as Trick-Or-Treating. Throughout the week, we explained our understanding of main idea using various strategies.

We read the story below and worked to support our main idea with details.

We also learned that the details in a text support the main idea like a table.

The kiddos made their own main idea tables after reading this story:

In Math, we explored with doubles and doubles plus one. To begin, we talked about how doubles are like looking in a mirror. It's the same number twice! Knowing doubles and our doubles plus ones facts can help make solving problems easier in the future. 

We had SO much fun opening up this month's Scholastic order. :) Thanks to everyone who made our book box so exciting this month!

Our major focus this week was completing our Opinion pieces. For the past several weeks, we have been working to share our thinking and support our opinions through opinion writing. To complete our unit, we created one published piece and we had a BLAST celebrating the conclusion of this unit.

We worked in pairs to help identify "brain burps" in our writing. We know that authors don't write books totally alone! They need other people to help them notice things that they didn't see before.

To end our week...we had a DONUT You Like Our Writing? Publishing Party!

Our Fourth Grade Buddies came to celebrate our writing with us...sparkling grape juice and donuts were a MUST. 

 By the end of the day, this poster was filled with compliments about our writing from our buddies and from one another.

Thanks for another great week!

Nov. 23-27

Specials
Monday - 1
Tuesday - Non-Rotation Day!
Wednesday - No School!
Thursday - No School! (Happy Thanksgiving!)
Friday - No School!

Upcoming Events & Reminders
*Some of you asked about pictures of your student being posted on the blog. Please remember the permission slip I mentioned throughout August and September is always available over here ----->

Please consider signing up to send in some fun items for our study of holidays around the world. Some items are due this Tuesday (November 24) and some are due the Monday after break (November 30).
Click here to Sign-Up to Bring a Holiday Supply!

There will also be an opportunity to sign up to donate items or represent a country in our Holiday World Market the morning of December 15. We are so lucky to have a diverse classroom and I would love for you to come and teach us how your family celebrates the holidays! Similar to our Junie B. Jamboree, we will "travel" to each country for about 15 minutes. While we are visiting your station, you would be responsible for bringing in fun items from home (such as a map or globe to show us your country, clothing, holiday decor, etc.). Additionally, you would prepare a simple craft for us to remember your special holiday (such as a paper lantern, origami, etc.).  ***You are also more than welcome to sign up for a country other than your own.***
The Sign-Ups will be posted in the first week of December. However, if you know you would like to volunteer to help with the market, you may go ahead and e-mail me to let me know. 

November  24 - Non-Rotation Day (Global Arts and Culture Day)
November 25-27 - Thanksgiving Break!
December 2 - Junie B. Field Trip (Please remember to submit your permission slip if you have not already done so!)
December 11 - PTA Winter Dance 6:30-8pm @ Wellington
December 15 - Holiday World Market
December 17 - Chorus Performance 1:30 & 6:30pm
December 21 - January 1 - Winter break!

No Homework this week!!!

Kid-Friendly Objectives

- I can tell my opinion of what I am thankful for. 
- I can compare the lengths of objects and tell which is longer and shorter.
- I can order objects by length.
- I can identify the main idea and key details of a text.
- I can read, write, and identify possessive nouns by adding apostrophe s. ('s)
- I can read, write, and identify words with Momma E! (silent e at the end of a word)

Spelling List

Take the week off! :) No spelling words this week.

Week in Review!
You've probably noticed a huge influx in apostrophes in your child's writing. :) We are learning all about possessive nouns...and that means apostrophes are everywhere!

We did a fun "roll the noun" activity with our partners. 

We drew any animal we wanted...as long as we could label it with our possessive nouns!

We got our oxygen pumping to our brain by doing a Write the Room activity. The kids were expected to read a sentence such as, "This computer belongs to Jen," and change it into "Jen's computer" to show the possessive.

We continued to develop our understanding of Main Ideas and Details in Informational texts with a Main Idea turkey! We researched Wild Turkeys on PebbleGo and concluded the Main Idea was Wild Turkeys. As we researched, we pulled out key details and wrote one detail on each of the turkey's feathers. I'll be sure to post the finished product later this week! So gobblin' cute!

To practice supporting our opinions, we read the story "A Turkey for Thanksgiving." In this story, Mr. Moose is sent on an errand by Mrs. Moose to get a turkey for Thanksgiving. Mr. Moose finally found the perfect wild turkey to bring back...and we had to try to convince Mrs. Moose to agree with our opinion (should she or should she not eat the turkey?)

We shared our opinions aloud for a passionate debate of what we believed she should do. I will get a few examples to show you by Tuesday! :)

 We are SO ready to move on and take a break from addition and subtraction! The kids had fun exploring length and measurement this week. We began by classifying whether one object was "shorter" or "longer" than another. We also put a big bunch of items from our pencil boxes in order by length.

We discussed the importance of endpoints when measuring so that no object can cheat! In this picture, one of my friends held the string at the endpoint of her foot and showed me where the other endpoint was so that I could cut it. Now we have a unit of measurement to use around the room so that we do not have to stick our foot on everything to compare its length!

"My foot is longer than the beads. The beads are shorter than my foot."

"The rug is longer than my foot. My foot is shorter than the rug."

"Look Mrs. Carney! My foot is longer than MY FACE!"

 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!! :)