Rock Investigations part 2

Class Reward- lunch outside!

Rock Investigations

Weekly Update

October 3-7, 2016

Learning Targets/Topics Word Study/Spelling: We are working now on a whole group word study lesson in order to learn the routines.  This week or next, your child should bring home more information about the word study learning block and how they can practice their individual words at home. Reading: ~ I can write a response to my reading.   ~ I have strategies to help me understand the author’s message when I’ve read something that doesn’t make sense. ~ I can write a letter to someone about a book I’m reading. I have began meeting with guided reading groups.  Have your child read at home and look on our blog for ideas of how they can write about their reading or discuss their thinking with someone at home. Writing: ~ I can write a personal narrative bit by bit. ~ I can write a beginning in which I introduce the setting, characters, and hook the reader. Math:    ~ I can tell the two tens or hundreds a number is between.     (  72 is between 70 and 80; 147 is between 100 and 200) ~ I can find the number halfway between two numbers. ~ I can round numbers to the nearest 10 ~ I can round numbers to the nearest 100

Important Dates 10-7: Field Trip to Ohio Caverns 10-14: 2 HR Delay 10/19-10/25: Book Fair 10-20: End of 1st Quarter 10-20 & 10-25: Parent Teacher Conferences 10-21: COEA Day 10-21: PTO Carnival 5-7 @GES 10-28: Halloween Room Party from 2:00-3:00) Lunch Menu Donations Needed ~ 1 stip of black licorice ~ 1 bar of white chocolate ~ Electric Pencil Sharpener Halloween Party This year, the entire building will be having a Halloween Party rather than a Harvest Party on October 28th.  Students will be permitted to bring a costume to wear for the room party.  Please do not send masks, weapons, or scary costumes.

Questions? Contact Me: Mrs. Breslin: breslink@grahamlocalschools.org 937-663-4449 ext 4319 *You can always send in a note or write to me in your child’s planner* Our classroom blog will be updated soon.  Check it out at mrsbreslin.blogspot.com Related Arts Rotation Week of:        Mon       Tues     Wed      Thurs    Fri     Oct. 3-7 D-Lib E-PE A-Music B-PE C-Comp Oct. 10-14 D-Lib E-PE A-Music B-PE C-Comp

Ohio Caverns If you have not turned in your permission slip for the Ohio Caverns Field Trip this Friday, please do so ASAP.  Please be sure all students wear tennis shoes, their orange tie dye shirt, and pack a disposable lunch.  Students are permitted to bring up to ten dollars for the gift shop.  Just a dollar or two will buy them a souvenir.   Spirit Week This week is Spirit Week for our Homecoming Game and to continue to raise money for Blake Barr.  We are collecting donations for his family each day. Monday: Hat Day Tuesday: Inside Out and backwards Day Wednesday: Green Day (The color of Team Blake) Thursday: Super Hero Day (Your favorite super hero) Friday: Graham Day

Writers Tell a Story Bit By Bit

Readers Check for Understanding

Weekly Update 9-26-16

Weekly Update

September 26-30, 2016

Learning Targets/Topics Word Study/Spelling: We are working now on a whole group word study lesson in order to learn the routines.  Beginning next week, your child should bring home more information about the word study learning block and how they can practice their individual words at home. Reading: ~I can discuss the genre of books I am reading. ~ I can follow the guidelines during reader’s workshop. ~ I can write a response to my reading.   ~ I have strategies to help me understand the author’s message when I’ve read something that doesn’t make sense. ~ I can write a letter to someone about a book I’m reading. Writing: ~ I can write a personal narrative bit by bit. Math:    ~ I can represent 3 digit numbers in different ways. ~ I can complete the pattern on a number line. ~ I can find the number halfway between two numbers. ~ I can round numbers to the nearest 10 ~ I can round numbers to the nearest 100

Important Dates 9-26: PTO meeting 7pm @GES 9-28: Tie Dye: Contact me if you want to help! 9-29: Early Childhood Literacy kickoff 6:00 10-2: Mum pickup @ GES 10-7: Field Trip to Ohio Caverns 10-20: End of 1st Quarter 10-20 & 10-25: Parent Teacher Conferences Lunch Menu Donations Needed ~ Pretzel stick ~ 1 stip of black licorice ~ 1 bar of white chocolate ~ Electric Pencil Sharpener ~ Clear packaging tape - received some, thank you! ~ Latex/rubber gloves - received some, thank you! ~ Rubber bands

Questions? Contact Me: Mrs. Breslin: breslink@grahamlocalschools.org 937-663-4449 ext 4319 *You can always send in a note or write to me in your child’s planner* Our classroom blog will be updated soon.  Check it out at mrsbreslin.blogspot.com Related Arts Rotation Week of:        Mon       Tues     Wed      Thurs    Fri     Sep 26- 30 D-Lib E-PE A-Music B-PE C-Comp Oct. 3-7 D-Lib E-PE A-Music B-PE C-Comp

Learning Target Sheets Rather than sending home a data binder every couple of weeks as some classrooms are doing, I will be helping your child track their learning each week on the learning target sheet that is in the back of their take home folder.  This sheet should stay in their folder when you are not looking at it or signing it.  On the back of the sheet are sample problems and resources to help you support each learning target at home.  For math, most of the time they will have work that has come home in their folder when a new entry has been recorded.  Please sign each new entry by simply signing your initials in the box to the right.  Eventually, there will be a reading tracking sheet in their folder as well and I will be sending their Reader’s Notebook and Writing Folder with them periodically.  To help support your child at home, see the back of the sheets, visit our math curriculum page listed on the back of the math target sheet, look at the work coming home, check out our BLOG, or ask me for assistance! :-) Please contact me with any questions or concerns about the target tracking sheets.