12/17/18 Class Updates and Announcements

Hello parents!

Have we made it through the yucky illness season yet?  Someone PLEASE tell me yes.  We have tried so hard to keep our classroom as close to germ free as possible, but unfortunately some of the kiddos have caught the bug (including my own...let's hope I'm not next).  I am hoping it has passed us now so that we can get through this last week of 2018 together.  Fingers crossed!

Reading
We have been reviewing author's purpose.  The students have a quiz on 12/17 (Mon.) that they have been preparing for since the beginning of last week.  We will also discuss point of view this week.

Math
We are continuing to work on division.  I have added a division video under the math tab that will help the students review.

Writing
We are continuing to work on our opinion writing.  The students will finish their in class writing prompt on Wednesday.

Social Studies
As mentioned last week, my homeroom will have their social studies test on 12/17 (Mon.) and Mr. Mathews class will have their test on 12/18 (Tues.).  Students were provided with notes to study.    They have everything they need to take the test.  Please note that this quarter will end the open notes test.  Students will be expected to know material before they take test.  The open note tests was only to help with the Studies Weekly prepared tests.  If students study the information that I give them, they should have no problem taking my teacher created test.

Announcements 
We will have our holiday celebration on 12/19 from 10-11:15 am.  Mrs. Bickford has graciously provided everyone with a sign-up genius and an outline of activities.  You can sign up to bring an item by clicking the link below:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0445acad29a7f85-mrs


This Friday marks the end of the second quarter.  With that said, I will have to have all grades for students before we leave for break.  If there are any retakes for anything that was given for this week (or if someone needed to take something from last week, but I was out due to illness), they will occur by Thursday.  Please know that this is not a time when the 7 day policy applies because of the grading period and the break. 

If your child was absent last week, I will work with them to catch them up during morning work, recess, lunch time etc.,  as usual.