Hi everyone!
Here are some updates from me before the kiddos start posting their news:
-EMAIL CHANGE AGAIN! I'm so sorry to have to change this on you, but everyone's e-mail has changed. My e-mail address is now: catherine.schroeder@cusd200.org. Any e-mails sent to the ceschroe@cusd200.org should be automatically fowarded to my new address. Thank you for your patience with this...technology this year has been a struggle to say the least! We're getting there though!
-Picture Day is THIS FRIDAY, September 16th so please send in your order forms this week if you'd like to order school pictures.
-Please send in $7.00 (cash only please) for assignment notebooks and a subscription to National Geographic For Kids. Thank you to those of you who've already sent their money in! :)
-Innisbrook wrapping paper orders are being collected this week as well. Let's meet our goal so Mr. Callahan can come to school wearing his PJ's!
READING:
The kids are doing a fantastic job working on Daily 5 and CAFE strategies. We've been building our stamina in read to self and read to someone. This Friday, 9/16, there will be a test over The Gardener. The test will cover the vocabulary words from the story as well as comprehension questions.
MATH:
We are trying something new this year! For chapter two, your child might have Mrs. Emma or Mr. Jewell! The switch is on a chapter by chapter basis, so you could have a different teacher for chapter 3! We will also be starting Fasttmath pretty soon (once it's in the computer lab!) and will be practicing our basic facts three times a week in the lab until the end of the school year. Along with Fasttmath, we are going strong with our "Mad Minutes!" Those of you who have gotten 50/50, we will challenge you even further by giving you only one minute, not two!
SPELLING:
Words for list 2 regular list and challenge list are up on Spellingcity.com. To access our list, just type in my name, Catherine Schroeder, and it should pull right up!
SOCIAL STUDIES:
We are working hard on our atlas skills. Get ready for our landform unit along with latitude and longitude next week. Dough islands here we come!!!
SCIENCE:
We finished science safety last week with a pretty exciting lab activity...Cornstarch Explosion! The kids loved this and it was a great way to end our unit. Today we studied the different parts of a microscope so we can look at real cells tomorrow and find the nucleus!
L.A./WRITING:
We are working on Big Words For Big Kids. This helps with learning the meanings of root words, the prefix and the suffix in order to comprehend larger words.
That's it for now, more to come with pictures! Please feel free to post comments or questions to our classroom blog!
Mrs. Schroeder
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