Chandler and Nassar's Class Chronicles

October 11, 2011

Conference week is coming up.  Conferences will be held the week of October 24th.  Students will be dismissed 2 hours early the whole week.  You will receive your conference time today in your child's folder.  We did our best to accommodate families that have more than one student here at Blackwell (your children should have back to back conferences).  Please return the form asap.  If the time scheduled for you does not work with your schedule, we will do our best to come up with a time that will work for all of us. 

Chick-fil-a chicken biscuits will be sold in the car pool lane this Thursday the 20th.  If your child rides the bus, he/she can still buy a biscuit and bring it to class to eat. 

Picture retakes are Friday, November 4th.  If you purchased pictures and are not happy with how they turned out, or if your child missed picture day, he/she may get his/her picture taken on this day.  Please return the pictures you want retaken. 

This week in school we are working on the following....

Reading:  informational text

Writing:  Post narrative writing, using voice in writing

Math:   2 digit by 2 digit multiplication using partial product

Social Studies:  Native Americans

Have a wonderful week.  Be safe in the rain.

September 19th

Picture Day is on Friday, September 23rd

Hat Day is on Friday, September 30th....your child may wear a hat to school on hat day if he/she pays 50 cents which goes to the American Cancer Society.

What is your child learning this week....

Reading:  analyze elements of a story, character's purpose

L. Arts:  identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in a sentence

Writing:  Narrative

Spelling:  short and long vowel sounds in first and second syllable ....a great website is

http://www.spellingcity.com/

This website is great for practicing ones spelling words, you type them in and then play different spelling games using your spelling words.

Math:  multiplication

Science:  Weather

Health:  Fire Safety  (Tomorrow is our fire safety test, I am sending home the pretest your child took, and he or she can go over the answers and correct the ones that are wrong).

Have a great week!

 

 

The Big Thank You (2nd try)

Download Big Thank You

The Big Thank You

We want to thank our troops for all that they do for us.  We will write letters in school, but if you and your family would like to write more letters at home the guidelines are attached.  Please send the letters in your child's folder and I will be sure to get them to the correct place.

 

Download Say

Math websites

http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/cathmath.html

http://www.aplusmath.com

 

 

Information about the Target Program

If your child is not in the Target program, and you have questions about the eligibility process, see the link below.

 

Download Demystifying the Gifted Eligibility Process in Cobb County

Donations please

We could really use the following items...

More number 2 pencils (pre-sharpened would be great)

CD or DVD paper sleeves (We use these in our science, math, and social studies journals)

Thank you in advance for any donations!

September 7, 2011

We hope you all enjoyed the long Labor Day weekend.  We just want to update you on what your child will study this week in school.

Reading:  informational text, locating facts, finding connections to a text

Writing:  Personal narrative

English:  Sentence structure

Math:  Rounding decimals

Science:  Water Cycle, Cloud formation

Health:  Fire Safety

We had our first fire safety lesson yesterday.  A firefighter came to our class to discuss fire safety with the children.  Your child will have fire safety homework every night this week.  The reading may count toward the 20 minutes of reading on the reading log.  Each day the fire safety book needs to come back to class. 

Monday, September 12th:  Stevie B's night

Tuesday, September 13th:  Safety Village Field Trip/ Open House

Thursday, September 15th:  Chick-fil-a in the car pool lane benefiting our Blackwell Foundation.  If your child buys a Chick-fil-a, he/she may eat it in our classroom

Have a great week!

August 29, 2011

We hope that you all had a fabulous weekend.  We are busy this week with the following....

Reading: Informational text:   When the Earth Shakes  What an appropriate time for this book after last weeks earthquake.  New vocabulary words:  spouted, slabs, tremors, jolts

Writing:  Personal Narrative

Language Arts:  4 types of sentences (quiz on Wednesday)

Spelling:  Spelling words will be stapled in your child's agenda today.  Your child is responsible for knowing how to spell these words.  A test will be given on Friday.

Math:  Understanding symbols and order of operations

Science:  Water Cycle

Notes to Remember

• Please sign your child's agenda and star sheet nightly
• August reading logs are due on Thursday, Sept. 1st
• Ask your child to sing the jingles for sentences and nouns
• September 13th is Open House which begins with PTA at 6:15.  There will be 3 rotations to visit classrooms at 6:30, 6:55, and 7:15. You will have an opportunity to see all the teachers if you have more than one child at Blackwell
• School is closed Monday, September 5th for Labor Day
• Please visit the Blackwell website for other school information http://www.cobbk12.org/Blackwell/
• Please have your child tell Mrs. Chandler this secret password (precipitation).  The first 3 children to tell me the password will win a prize.  Tell your child to keep the password a secret. 
• Have a great week!

 

 

 

 

 

Great Websites to practice at home

For locating latitude and longitude and other georgraphy games

www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/

Stories online

http://storylineonline.net/