Chandler and Nassar's Class Chronicles

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/

 

 

Welcome to the school year 2011 - 2012

We are all doing very well diving into our second week of school.  It was so nice to see our 3rd grade class move on up to 4th grade with Mrs. Nassar and I.  We have a few new students, as well, which we are so happy to have join us.  The students remember our expectations well and have shared their thoughts with our new students.    The children seem to like having tables to work on in lieu of desks.  So far, it has helped everyone to stay organized.  I have been quite impressed.

Here is a look into our studies this week...

Reading:  Dancing Around the World is our book of study this week.  We will work on vocabulary, fluency, expression, informational text

Language Arts:  Parts of a sentence (ask your child to sing our "sentence" jingle), 4 types of sentences (declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory)

Writing:  Personal Narrative

Math:  Place value up to the millions (standard form, expanded form, word form), rounding

Social Studies:  Map skills (map key, compass rose, identifying natural features on a math)

I look forward to another great week!   Remember, the "star sheet" has started today for our behavior management system.  A letter went home about it on Friday.   Also, the reading logs came home Friday as well.  I will collect them on September 1st.  If your child finishes before then, please just leave it in your child's take home folder.   Have a great week!