Fall Fun!

State Box Projects are Due This Wed. Oct. 30th

State Box Project and State Report are both due Oct. 30th. 

We will have a Science Voc. test this Wednesday.  Please make sure your child is studying their study guide. 

A great big thank-you to Matthew's mom for sending in a perfect pumpkin.  Also a great big thank-you to Sophia's mom, Britton's mom, and Mathew's mom for helping us do some Fall activities on Friday.  We decided that pumpkin seeds taste like popcorn.  This is the first year I wasn't told that they tasted like chicken.

Please remind your child to bring their library books to school daily.  Our library day is Wednesday, but the kids can go back as needed on a daily basis.  I try to get them there at some point during our day as they need to go.

School pictures came home Friday.  Please make sure you return them by Monday, November 4th if you are going to purchase them.

Story: The Bremen Town Musicians
Phonics: Plurals
Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose
Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
Grammar: Plural Nouns that change Spelling
Our treasure box is getting low if anybody would like to send in donations.  Also, we love our writing center.  If you have any writing tools around your house that you don't need, send them in and we will put them to great use. 

I sent an important class email Saturday evening.  Please email me if you didn't receive it.

Thanks for all you do to make this year so great! Have a super week!

Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week

I LOVE THE BLOUNT PTA! I hope you enjoyed the Fall Festival as much as my family did.  I am so thankful the rain held off and we were able to have a fantastic night.  I appreciate just how hard our PTA works to make sure that Blount has amazing experiences that are so much fun for our kids.  It took a whole lot of hard work out of a whole lot of people!

Make sure you follow the schedule that came home last week for each thing we are doing to celebrate Red Ribbon Week. 

Your child brought home a Social Studies Project last week.  The project is due October 30th.  Please make sure your child follows the directions and notices the Rubric that will be used to grade it.  Your child will also turn in the 2nd sheet along with their State Box on the due date.

A great big thank you to Daniel's mom for typing up our class directory.  Your child brought it home last week. 

I have several activities that I would love to do with a pumpkin.  If any of you are able to donate one to our class please email me.  Also, if any of you are available to help us cook pumpkin seeds this Friday in the afternoon please let me know. 

Spirit Night is Monday, October 21st at Texas Roadhouse.

Your child will receive new Vocabulary words this week in Science. 

I am planning to test on Chapter 3 in Math this Thursday.  I can't stress to you enough just how important it is to have your child do the review the night before.  This way you are able to see if there is anything your child needs further practice with.

Story: Turtle's Race with Beaver
Genre: Folk Tale
Phonics: r-controlled vowels -er, ir, -ur
Comp. Skill: Sequence
Comp. Strategy: Summarize
Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns

Please don't forget to check your child's binder nightly, and sign the Reading Log.

Have a SUPER week!

 

Skeletons

Fall Festival Week!

We had so much fun making our Skeletons last week.  A great big thank you to the Evan's mom, Sofia's mom, Landon's mom, and Eric's mom for helping us! Make sure you check out our Skeleton Parade video in the previous post!

Also a huge thank-you to Eric's mom for sending in many, many plates for our project!

 

Teacher Treat Day was such a HUGE treat! I can't thank all of you moms enough that came and helped with lunch that day.  I didn't even get to see all of you because some of you met the class in the lunchroom, so I wanted to make sure you knew how much I appreciate you! THANK YOU!!

 

We will have Nancy's Tuesday due to the Holiday on Monday.

 

The big excitement this week is the Fall Festival this Thursday.  If you ordered your wristbands ahead of time, your child will receive them this week.  Make sure you are checking your child's binder.  The wristbands should be in your child's pencil pouch that is in their binder.  I will send those home the day we receive them from the PTA.  If you didn't purchase wristbands ahead of time, you may still purchase them at the gate.  This is such a fun night to celebrate Fall with your own family and your Blount family! Don't worry, your child will not have homework that evening!

 

The first nine weeks ended this past Friday.  Report Cards will come home this Thursday.  We start a brand new nine weeks Tuesday! Your child will have one report card for you to keep, and one to return to school in the envelope it will come home in.  Please return those Friday.

 

Please don't forget to check your child's binder nightly for any information you may need.  Also remember to sign your child's reading log nightly.  There is a new Reading Log in your child's binder for the 2nd nine weeks.  This Reading Log counts as a daily grade in Reading.  I took them up last Friday.  Don't worry if the Friday spot wasn't signed for your child, that didn't count against them.

 

Story this Week:  Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Phonics: Contractions

Comprehension  Skill: Realism and Fantasy

Comprehension Strategy: Prior Knowledge

Grammar: Introduce Proper Nouns

 

Math: Chapter 3 Basic Facts and Relationships

 

Be on the lookout for a Social Studies Project to come home this week. 

 

Have a super week and email me with any questions you may have.

 

 

 



Skeleton Parade

School Pictures are Tuesday, Oct. 8th

Please make sure you send in your child's field trip form and money by Monday.  We have to pay in order to reserve our seats.  If your child is not attending this field trip, please let me know in writing.

I sent a class email today.  Please let me know if you didn't receive it.  I am hoping all the issues with email are resolved. 

We could use several white paper plates and brads for a project we are doing this week.  We need around 15 plates per child.  Also, if you would like to help us with the project just email me.

Your child received a new spelling list with the Unit 2 spelling words.  We will have a pre-test on Unit 2 week one words this Monday.

We will have a Science Vocabulary test this Tuesday on Chapter 2 words.  Please make sure your child is studying their study guide. 

The end of the first nine weeks is this Friday.  Don't forget to keep an eye on your child's grades in Inow.  Report Cards won't come home until Oct. 17th.

October 14th is a Holiday for the kids. 

Story this Week: Tara and Tiree
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Phonics: r-controlled ar, or, ore
Comp. Skill: Sequence
Comp. Strategy: Predict
Grammar: Nouns

Thank you for allowing your child to be so creative with the Dirt Baby contest.  We had so much fun listening to everybody share about their Dirt Baby.  We have a room full of creative minds, and I am so thankful!

Have a super week and email me with any questions.

Dirt Baby Contest