Mr. E's Chatter:
Fall Activities
November
Hello one and all! Can you believe that the holidays are upon us. Novenber is full of exciting adventures. Throughout the month, we will be working on several hands-on activities.
Parent/teacher conferences were wonderful, well at least the ones I was able to attend. I apologize to those parents that I had to cancel out on. If you still need to talk to me after viewing your childs report card, please let me know and we'll get together and talk.
Also approaching is our first field trip. On Monday, November 30th, our class will be going to Popejoy Hall and see the Nutcracker Ballet. Your child must bring a sack lunch. Please do not send any extra money with your child.
TEACHER: Steve Eisenberg
ACADEMICS & HOMEWORK
Students will have weekly spelling tests, weekly grammar quizzes, and reading/vocabulary tests. I would like the students to learn this year that time spent in preparation for an upcoming test does pay off!
Every assigmnet has a purpose and importance. The work is explained and discussed as we go over it together.
A data binder will be sent home twice a month with important progress information, please go over it with your child and discuss thier progress.
The students should have 20-30 minutes of homework nightly, except for Firdays. Please check for a Math Home Link, spelling words and of course nightly reading.
SCIENCE:
We have started Space/Our planet in science. This unit starts with a look at space as students learn about the night sky. The time spent learning about each of the planets and comparing them to each other. The focus comes back to Earth as students learn abour water, animals around today and those long extinct, and how our planet keeps changing.
LANGUAGE ARTS
In Language Arts, we will begin our next piece of writing, EXPLANATORY, students will write an explanation. Together, they will explore the features of this mode as they choose a topic based on mutual knowledge or experience, come up with information and details that explain, and put their ideas in step-by-step order.
Reading:
Book Report
The next book report has been assigned. The Genre is Fantasy/Science FIction. The students choose which project they wanted to do from creating a game based on thier book, writing a Newspaper acticle, making a brochure, or writing a Screenplay. The Book Report is due December 7th
R A C E D
R - Restate the question
A - Answer the question
C - Cite Evidence from the Text
In the story it said ------
On page ____ it said
For example, on page ________
I know this to be true because in the story
E - Expand or Explain your answer
In conclusion
I believe
In my opinion
That is how
For this reason
That is why
I think
This reminds me of
D- Demonstrate good conventions
Read your answer
Did you indent
Did you write complete sentences
Check your spelling, punctuation, and grammar
Math:
We are now in Unit Four of our Everyday Math program.
Social Studies
This month we are going to start building a 3D island to be used for producing various types of maps, such as climate, temperature,and physical maps to name a few.
Computer Time
At Cielo Azul we believe that a good school curriculum should include teaching students to become proficient with computers. We are very fortunate to have a great technology lab, with enough computers for every child to experiment and learn. Our call will be visiting the computer lab each Friday and will will be practicing keyboarding skills, playing educational games to reinforce academic concepts, and becoming familaiar with other useful computer programs, such as Power Point. We are also excited to use the new mobile lap top computers available to us and will be bringing them into the classroom to futher our technology skills.
Spelling Words 11/20/09
brother's girls
brothers girl's
uncle's girls'
uncles beyond
sister's mustache
sisters seriously
sisters' atmosphere
man's diameter
men's thermometer
child's constellation
