It sure was fun being at camp with the 5th graders, but I am so glad to be back!
Today was field day! We had a lot of fun playing outside!
Hang in there! We still have two days of school left. Remember, next Tuesday is a snow make-up day. We have school that day.
Please remember to bring back packs to school. We have a lot of papers to pass back.
Until tomorrow...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
5/17/08
Friday was a busy day!
Language Arts: We had our Wax Museum. I was impressed with how well the students were prepared and their costumes were fantastic! We also finished up the last few minutes of The Sign of the Beaver movie and took our test over the novel. All library books should have been turned in on Friday. If you have any still at home, please return them to Mrs. Konopinski on Monday.
Math: We reviewed a little from Unit 12 and played a jeopardy game to review vocabulary that we learned throughout the year. Wow! The students retained so much vocabulary. They are definitely ready for next year!
Social Studies: Today was our last day of the Social Studies rotation for the year. We completed our test over Chapter 4 and all practice book pages were handed in.
Things to know:
*** I will not be at school this Monday-Wednesday. I will be at camp with the 5th graders.
***All school textbooks will be collected on Wednesday. Please make sure that everyone has all their books in school on Wednesday.
Until Thursday...
Language Arts: We had our Wax Museum. I was impressed with how well the students were prepared and their costumes were fantastic! We also finished up the last few minutes of The Sign of the Beaver movie and took our test over the novel. All library books should have been turned in on Friday. If you have any still at home, please return them to Mrs. Konopinski on Monday.
Math: We reviewed a little from Unit 12 and played a jeopardy game to review vocabulary that we learned throughout the year. Wow! The students retained so much vocabulary. They are definitely ready for next year!
Social Studies: Today was our last day of the Social Studies rotation for the year. We completed our test over Chapter 4 and all practice book pages were handed in.
Things to know:
*** I will not be at school this Monday-Wednesday. I will be at camp with the 5th graders.
***All school textbooks will be collected on Wednesday. Please make sure that everyone has all their books in school on Wednesday.
Until Thursday...
Thursday, May 14, 2009
5/14/09
Do the days keep getting shorter or do we have just too much to get done?
Language Arts: We watched The Sign of the Beaver movie today and compared it to the novel that we read.
Remember:
***Tomorrow is the Wax Museum. Please bring your book, note card, clothes, and props. It will be a lot of fun!
***Novel study packets and Tic- Tac- Toe activities are due tomorrow as well.
***All library books are due
Math: We continue with our study of rates and ratios today.
***We will go over the assigned journal pages in class tomorrow.
Content: We reviewed for our test tomorrow. It will cover all the lessons in Chapter 4. It really seems like they are ready for the test! Tomorrow will be the last day of the rotation.
Homework:
***All practice book pages are due.(I have almost all of them since everyone worked hard at the end of class today.)
We are almost there...Hang in there!
Until tomorrow...
Language Arts: We watched The Sign of the Beaver movie today and compared it to the novel that we read.
Remember:
***Tomorrow is the Wax Museum. Please bring your book, note card, clothes, and props. It will be a lot of fun!
***Novel study packets and Tic- Tac- Toe activities are due tomorrow as well.
***All library books are due
Math: We continue with our study of rates and ratios today.
***We will go over the assigned journal pages in class tomorrow.
Content: We reviewed for our test tomorrow. It will cover all the lessons in Chapter 4. It really seems like they are ready for the test! Tomorrow will be the last day of the rotation.
Homework:
***All practice book pages are due.(I have almost all of them since everyone worked hard at the end of class today.)
We are almost there...Hang in there!
Until tomorrow...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
5/13/09
It was sure great to be back today after being out of the building for a few days. Thank you to Mrs. Woods and Miss Grannan for taking care of things while I was gone. Also, thanks to all our parent volunteers who made Connor Prairie a terrific learning experience for our kids. We couldn't do it without you!
Language Arts: Today we finished The Sign of the Beaver, took the Comprehension Check, and spent the remainder of the morning working on our novel study packets. The students are expected to have their packets completed on Friday. A lot of time was given in class throughout the past two weeks.
Homework:
***Wax Museum is on Friday. Remember props/costumes, book, and note card. It should be memorized!
***Novel study packet is due on Friday. Tic-Tac-Toe activities are do as well.
***All library books are due on May 15th.
***Mini mall proposals were due today. We have extended this one day since we were out yesterday at Conner Prairie. Remember- every business needs a parent signature.
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Math: Today in math some of us finished our end of the year test while others worked on rates/ratios, and other computation problems.
Homework:
***None
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Content: We did not have content today. We had Art Smart instead. A big thank you goes out to Mrs. Schatz, Mrs. Thomas, and our new Notre Dame friends for a fun art lesson.
Content-We have only two more days of Social Studies. We will review Chapter 4 tomorrow and our test will be on Friday. Please study your notes.
The end is near... Hang in there!
Until tomorrow...
Language Arts: Today we finished The Sign of the Beaver, took the Comprehension Check, and spent the remainder of the morning working on our novel study packets. The students are expected to have their packets completed on Friday. A lot of time was given in class throughout the past two weeks.
Homework:
***Wax Museum is on Friday. Remember props/costumes, book, and note card. It should be memorized!
***Novel study packet is due on Friday. Tic-Tac-Toe activities are do as well.
***All library books are due on May 15th.
***Mini mall proposals were due today. We have extended this one day since we were out yesterday at Conner Prairie. Remember- every business needs a parent signature.
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Math: Today in math some of us finished our end of the year test while others worked on rates/ratios, and other computation problems.
Homework:
***None
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Content: We did not have content today. We had Art Smart instead. A big thank you goes out to Mrs. Schatz, Mrs. Thomas, and our new Notre Dame friends for a fun art lesson.
Content-We have only two more days of Social Studies. We will review Chapter 4 tomorrow and our test will be on Friday. Please study your notes.
The end is near... Hang in there!
Until tomorrow...
Thursday, May 7, 2009
5/07/09
A full day of Language Arts!
We spent the entire day today in our Language Arts groups because of Artist in Residence. We completed a really neat watercolor lesson and learned ab out resistance and what adding salt can do to a painting.
While in our Language Arts groups, we continued on with our novel study. We completed a graphic organizer for lessons 11-13. Read chapters 14 and 15, discussed our new vocabulary, and picked out more literary elements. Wow! I am so impressed with how well the students can pick out literary elements now without any help. We also took some time to start a 15 sentence portrait paragraph of either Matt or Attean(Characters from our novel study). So far, they are turning out very nice!
Homework:
***Comprehension Check tomorrow over chapters 11-15
***Reread the chapters for the Comprehension checkup
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Reminders/Information:
***Field day T-shirt sizes and money were due today. Please remember to send your order in tomorrow.
***May 15th is our Wax Museum. Please refer to the rubric for grading details.
***April reading minutes were checked today. Please remember to continue to record your reading minutes each day. A parent signature or initial is needed each day. (Remember: Reading 20 minutes each night is a PHM requirement for 4th grade students.)
***Conner Prairie is next Tuesday. Remember to bring 2 throw-away lunches and money
for the gift shop(optional). No electronics!
Content: We did not have content rotations today but we will have our quiz tomorrow over lessons 3 and 4.
Until next week...
We spent the entire day today in our Language Arts groups because of Artist in Residence. We completed a really neat watercolor lesson and learned ab out resistance and what adding salt can do to a painting.
While in our Language Arts groups, we continued on with our novel study. We completed a graphic organizer for lessons 11-13. Read chapters 14 and 15, discussed our new vocabulary, and picked out more literary elements. Wow! I am so impressed with how well the students can pick out literary elements now without any help. We also took some time to start a 15 sentence portrait paragraph of either Matt or Attean(Characters from our novel study). So far, they are turning out very nice!
Homework:
***Comprehension Check tomorrow over chapters 11-15
***Reread the chapters for the Comprehension checkup
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Reminders/Information:
***Field day T-shirt sizes and money were due today. Please remember to send your order in tomorrow.
***May 15th is our Wax Museum. Please refer to the rubric for grading details.
***April reading minutes were checked today. Please remember to continue to record your reading minutes each day. A parent signature or initial is needed each day. (Remember: Reading 20 minutes each night is a PHM requirement for 4th grade students.)
***Conner Prairie is next Tuesday. Remember to bring 2 throw-away lunches and money
for the gift shop(optional). No electronics!
Content: We did not have content rotations today but we will have our quiz tomorrow over lessons 3 and 4.
Until next week...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
5/06/09
What a quick day!
Language Arts: Since we got a late start to our morning, we had a lot to do. We completed our chapters 8-10 graphic organizer in our novel study packets, took the comprehension quiz over chapters 5-10, and started to read chapters 11-12.
Homework:
***Read chapters 11-12- Mark in pencil all the "imagery" that you can find.
***Mark your reading minutes on the calendar in your planner.
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Math: We took our Unit 11 Math test.
Homework:
***None
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Content: Wow! Time is really running out for this rotation! Today we reviewed all three lessons a loud. I was impressed with how much information that the students were able to talk about. Hands were up and everyone was participating in the discussion! We also read and discussed lesson 4- Pioneer Life. Notes were passed out today. Please note that we will have a short quiz over chapters 3 and 4 on Friday. We will not have class tomorrow due to Artist in Residence. Please study your notes. Our test over Chapter 4 will be next Friday. We will not have any other quizzes after this Friday. We will spend next week covering lessons 5 and 6, reviewing, and preparing for the test.
Homework:
***None- Quiz over lesson 3 and 4- Friday.
Until tomorrow...
Language Arts: Since we got a late start to our morning, we had a lot to do. We completed our chapters 8-10 graphic organizer in our novel study packets, took the comprehension quiz over chapters 5-10, and started to read chapters 11-12.
Homework:
***Read chapters 11-12- Mark in pencil all the "imagery" that you can find.
***Mark your reading minutes on the calendar in your planner.
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Math: We took our Unit 11 Math test.
Homework:
***None
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Content: Wow! Time is really running out for this rotation! Today we reviewed all three lessons a loud. I was impressed with how much information that the students were able to talk about. Hands were up and everyone was participating in the discussion! We also read and discussed lesson 4- Pioneer Life. Notes were passed out today. Please note that we will have a short quiz over chapters 3 and 4 on Friday. We will not have class tomorrow due to Artist in Residence. Please study your notes. Our test over Chapter 4 will be next Friday. We will not have any other quizzes after this Friday. We will spend next week covering lessons 5 and 6, reviewing, and preparing for the test.
Homework:
***None- Quiz over lesson 3 and 4- Friday.
Until tomorrow...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
5/05/09
Language Arts: This morning was a short but busy morning. We read chapters 8-10 in The Sign of the Beaver, discussed our literary terms found in those chapters, and found our vocabulary. We even found a few minutes to do some reflective writing.Tomorrow will be short because of our P.B.A. day , but we will complete the graphic organizer for chapters 8-10 and have a short comprehension check.
Homework:
***Read and record minutes in planners.
***All literary terms and vocabulary should be completed up to chapter 10. Class time is given each day to complete the work.
***Reflecting writing is due tomorrow. It should be 1/2 page in length.
***You may use your independent reading time tonight to reread chapters 5-10 to prepare for our comprehension check tomorrow. Please record these minutes in your planner.
***Our Wax Museum is next week. Do you have your facts memorized?
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Math: We reviewed today for our our test tomorrow. We worked on a practice test which is very much the upcoming test tomorrow. It will deal with finding the volume of a cylinder, cone, pyramid, capacity, and surface area.
Homework:
***Complete the practice test. We will review this prior to the test.
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Social Studies: We are really taking our time during this chapter. We reviewed and discussed again chapter 4- lessons 1-3. Everyone should have notes for these three lessons. We started to discuss lesson 4- Pioneer Life. No new notes were passed out for this yet. Tomorrow we will discuss lesson4 again and notes will be passed out. We will have a short quiz over lessons 3 and 4 on Monday. Please mark this again in your planners. (This gives you almost a week to study!)
Homework:
***No written homework-You can study notes though.
Reminders:
***Tomorrow is a P.B.A. day. You can sleep in!
Until tomorrow...
Homework:
***Read and record minutes in planners.
***All literary terms and vocabulary should be completed up to chapter 10. Class time is given each day to complete the work.
***Reflecting writing is due tomorrow. It should be 1/2 page in length.
***You may use your independent reading time tonight to reread chapters 5-10 to prepare for our comprehension check tomorrow. Please record these minutes in your planner.
***Our Wax Museum is next week. Do you have your facts memorized?
***********************************************************************************
Math: We reviewed today for our our test tomorrow. We worked on a practice test which is very much the upcoming test tomorrow. It will deal with finding the volume of a cylinder, cone, pyramid, capacity, and surface area.
Homework:
***Complete the practice test. We will review this prior to the test.
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Social Studies: We are really taking our time during this chapter. We reviewed and discussed again chapter 4- lessons 1-3. Everyone should have notes for these three lessons. We started to discuss lesson 4- Pioneer Life. No new notes were passed out for this yet. Tomorrow we will discuss lesson4 again and notes will be passed out. We will have a short quiz over lessons 3 and 4 on Monday. Please mark this again in your planners. (This gives you almost a week to study!)
Homework:
***No written homework-You can study notes though.
Reminders:
***Tomorrow is a P.B.A. day. You can sleep in!
Until tomorrow...
Monday, May 4, 2009
5/4/09
It sure was nice being back at school today after missing on Friday. The students were able to get through everything that I had planned and the substitute left notes complimenting their excellent behavior! It was also nice to come back to the kickoff of Teacher/Staff appreciation week. I loved getting so many flowers. It really brightened up our room and made it smell great too!
Language Arts: Today in Language Arts we used all but 1/2 hour working on our novel study. During the 1/2 hour, we worked for the last time with our reading buddies. While working on our novel study, we read chapter 5-7, completed the graphic organizer together, and found a lot of literary terms. The students also had time to work independently in their packets and on the new vocabulary from the chapters.
Homework:
***All novel study packets should be completed up to chapter 7. This includes vocabulary, the graphic organizers, and all the literary terms from the chapters. The students are given time in class each day to work on this. It is their responsibility to get each section completed on the day that we read it in class.
Looking Ahead:
***We will have a comprehension check over chapters 5-10 on Wednesday.
***Tic-Tac-Toe activities are due on May 15th.
***Wax Museum presentations are due on May 15. Do you have your props? Your clothes? your notecard? Your book?
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Math: Today in Math we slowed the pace down a bit. We jumped right into worked on finding the volume of a cone and a pyramid. This will help for the upcoming test. I planned for the test to be tomorrow, but we will work on a practice test tomorrow instead and get a bit more practice in. The test will be on Wednesday since we will not have Math groups on Thursday of this week due to Artist in Residence. Please review the handout and the practice test in preparation for the test.
Unit 10 assessments were handed back today. This assessment took a while longer than I had wanted to get back to the students because I had to wait on several students to finish it. Hopefully, everyone will take the test on Wednesday and I can return it on Friday.
Homework:
***Math Box 11.6 and 11.7
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Content: Today in content we reviewed again lessons 1, 2, and 3. We had a great discussion about what is happening so far in this chapter, who the important people were, and what battles were fought. The students were given time to work on practice book pages 36-38 although they were not assigned yet for homework.
Homework:
***None
Reminders:
***May 6th is a P.B.A. day- You get to sleep in!
Until tomorrow...
Language Arts: Today in Language Arts we used all but 1/2 hour working on our novel study. During the 1/2 hour, we worked for the last time with our reading buddies. While working on our novel study, we read chapter 5-7, completed the graphic organizer together, and found a lot of literary terms. The students also had time to work independently in their packets and on the new vocabulary from the chapters.
Homework:
***All novel study packets should be completed up to chapter 7. This includes vocabulary, the graphic organizers, and all the literary terms from the chapters. The students are given time in class each day to work on this. It is their responsibility to get each section completed on the day that we read it in class.
Looking Ahead:
***We will have a comprehension check over chapters 5-10 on Wednesday.
***Tic-Tac-Toe activities are due on May 15th.
***Wax Museum presentations are due on May 15. Do you have your props? Your clothes? your notecard? Your book?
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Math: Today in Math we slowed the pace down a bit. We jumped right into worked on finding the volume of a cone and a pyramid. This will help for the upcoming test. I planned for the test to be tomorrow, but we will work on a practice test tomorrow instead and get a bit more practice in. The test will be on Wednesday since we will not have Math groups on Thursday of this week due to Artist in Residence. Please review the handout and the practice test in preparation for the test.
Unit 10 assessments were handed back today. This assessment took a while longer than I had wanted to get back to the students because I had to wait on several students to finish it. Hopefully, everyone will take the test on Wednesday and I can return it on Friday.
Homework:
***Math Box 11.6 and 11.7
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Content: Today in content we reviewed again lessons 1, 2, and 3. We had a great discussion about what is happening so far in this chapter, who the important people were, and what battles were fought. The students were given time to work on practice book pages 36-38 although they were not assigned yet for homework.
Homework:
***None
Reminders:
***May 6th is a P.B.A. day- You get to sleep in!
Until tomorrow...
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