Too Excited!!

Pumpkin Fun!

Crazy for candy corn!!

Analyzing Poetry

Ask your child about The Spider and the Fly. We did a Close Read and are working on identifying the various elements of poetry.

Updates

Grammar Homework: WB: 73 and 74

Test on Parts of Speech Test tomorrow!

UGA Writing Sample

Students will be writing a paper tomorrow which will be scored by the experts at UGA.  I am really excited to see their growth from their last UGA scored paper they wrote in May.  Please talk to them about doing their best tomorrow...it's their time to shine!

Updates

Social Studies Test is tomorrow:  Chapters 3 and 4
Halloween Narratives were due today.
Parts of Speech Booklets were due last Thursday.

Choice Cards are coming home today!  Please sign under WEEK 2! They must be returned tomorrow.  Thank you very  much!

Fun with Parts of Speech Accordion Books!

Updates 10/24

Social Studies Invention flip books are due tomorrow!  We will review chapters 3 and 4 on Monday.  Test 3/4 combined is Tuesday.  We had a great conversation today about immigrants, Ellis Island and Angel Island.  Please talk to your child about their family tree and if any of their ancestors can be traced back to Ellis or Angel Island.  They are fascinated by all of this! 

Most students are done with their Halloween/Fall Narrative.  They will be typing them tomorrow.  Ask your child to tell you about their story.  Next week we will be having a formal writing assessment that will be scored by UGA.  We are not sure the date, but will let you know.  Their writing is really improving! 

There will be a test on Parts of Speech on Wednesday, October 30.  

I will not be here tomorrow, so Choice Cards will not be coming home. Friday Folders will be handed out, but choice cards will go home on Monday.  Thank you for your understanding.  

This warms my heart!

Here's One boy reading aloud to two others. They are reading a book about Pioneer life. This was their idea! This is how they chose to spend their free time! So awesome!

Updates

Friday folders are packed! Please sign the report card envelope and return to school Monday. We have started a new choice card. Please check over it and sign.  All their work from SS and science from the 1st nine weeks is either in their book bag or in their Friday.  You might want to keep it as a review guide for the CRCT. 

Also in the folders is a letter regarding the ITBS test which is next week. Please make sure your child is well rested and eats a good breakfast this week.  

SS students have a flip book due Friday 10/25.  It is on an invention from the 1800s or early 1900s. They have their blank flip books and rubrics.

Have a great weekend!

Science Fair Update

We made our notebooks on Thursday. We used sticky notes for tab dividers, but you will probably want to get a more permanent adhesive tab. Students should be choosing a couple topics that interest them, writing a few testable questions, and working on a hypothesis.  See you all again Thursday!

10/16 Updates

Grammar HW:  pages 93 and 94
Social Studies:  Lesson 1 Quick Study sheet
Reading:  Ask your child about the eclipse reading they did today.  October 18 is a big event in the world of science, there will be an eclipse in the middle of the night.  Don't be surprised if your child asks you to stay up all night to watch it!

Science Fair

The first meeting for Science Fair is this Thursday, October 17. Please meet at 7:45 in my room.  If you arrive any earlier than that, please wait in the atrium as I might not be in my room for supervision.  Please make sure you have given me your parent permission slip or bring it with you.  I look forward to getting started!

10/10 Updates

Our behavior was MUCH improved!  Let's keep it up!

Homework:  Grammar sheet:  487, it's purple!

Social Studies:  finish your amendment scroll

10/9 Updates

Homework:  Grammar worksheet 486
Social Studies:  no homework

Behavior Update: I wanted to make you aware that our class behavior is getting worse and worse in the lunchroom and at specials.  Today an administrator described their behavior as a "train wreck."  As a result, I had the whole class walk laps on the playground during recess for about 15 minutes.  Many were unhappy about this, as would be expected.  Several were upset that the class was being punished as a whole.  I have no choice but to have the entire class suffer a consequence when the entire class is reprimanded as they were today. I have been signing choice cards, but I will have to start signing them much more often now.  The new choice card for the new 9 week period will begin Tuesday 10/15, so all will have a clean slate that day. Each 9 week period Mrs. Morand and I will be rewarding students with 3 checks or fewer with a movie party.  The 1st 9 week reward party is Tuesday 10/15.  

Please reinforce to your students the importance of self control and appropriate behavior.

I certainly appreciate the wonderful behavior so many of my students exhibit on a daily basis.  I know this doesn't apply to everyone, but we function as a class.  We will either sink together or sail together!  I'm counting on sailing!!!

Updates 10/8

Homework:
Grammar sheet:  485
Reading/Writing:  finish compare and contrast paper on two stories
Social Studies:  TEST TOMORROW, CHAPTER 2

Pumpkin donations!  $2
Quarters for a Cause!!

10/7 Updates

Grammar Homework:  WB: pages 111 and 112, all
Social Studies:  Quick Study sheet Lesson 4 andTime Line projects are due tomorrow 10/8

SCIENCE FAIR!!!  Science Fair is open to any 4th or 5th grader that is interested.  There is a parent informational meeting tomorrow morning, Tuesday, 10/8 at 7:45 am in the media center.  Parents must attend if a child wants to participate.

Donations:  Thank you to everyone that has donated $2 towards our pumpkin project.  The more money we collect the more pumpkins we can purchase and the more "hands on" the project will be for your students.  Please continue to send in donations.

Quarters for a Cause:  Each child received a ziploc bag for quarter collection for the United Way.  Please donate any amount you can to this worthy cause.  Thank you so much!

Hard at Work!

10/3 Homework

Grammar: WB: 109 and 110 all
Social Studies:  finish Battle of Gettysburg sheet
Complete graphic organizer on Union and Confederate war strategies

Updates 10/1

As you all know, our school reached our fundraising goal of over $20,000!  Thank you to all of you who went out and got donations!  We will have our amazing BMX bike show this Friday.  Due to the scheduling of the show, we will be moving two important social studies dates.

Time lines are now due on Tuesday, 10/8.

Chapter 2 test will be Wednesday, 10/9.  

Thank you again for supporting Burnette.  It's a great place to be!

10/1 Homework

Grammar:  WB 85 and 86 all
Social Studies:  Quick Study, lesson 2

Ask your child about Kermit the Hermit.  See if they can tell you his internal and external struggles and how they were resolved.  It's a great story!