Weekly Wrap Up

A few times a year I send home a Scholastic book order. This is just one of many ways to find reading material for your child. Please don’t feel obligated to purchase anything, but if you do want to buy a book, you can either order and pay online, or you can send in the form with a check (please do not send cash). A larger selection of books is actually available online. The order link and our class code are on our class website. Online orders are delivered to the classroom and distributed to your child. They do not get sent to your home. Click here for the link on the class website for Scholastic Book Orders. Online and paper forms are due Friday, Nov. 13.

This week we started learning about the meanings of multiplication. Next week we start with the facts. Our math program does not do them in order (0-10). Topic 5 covers multiplying by 2, 5, 9, 1, 0, and 10, in that order. I also throw in 11 since it’s so easy. Late in the week ask your child to show you the nine’s trick with their hands. I’ll also tweet out a video of the trick on the day we learn it.

Once again we are collecting treats for troops. This is a great chance for your child to be a Goodness Gorilla (ask them what this means). Please send in a bit of extra Halloween candy next week. It will be distributed to our troops serving around the world

Here's what we're learning about next week:

• Reader’s Workshop: Review of skills taught in unit 1
• Writer’s Workshop: Continue revising and typing small moment stories
• Math: Multiplying by 2 ,5, and 9
• Social Studies: Northeast Woodland Native Americans

Please remember that my door is always open if you have any questions or concerns. I also check email frequently. Together we are partners in your child’s education!

Classroom Library

As our year winds down, there’s lots of cleaning and organizing that takes place. It will be helpful if all classroom library books that might be hanging around at home are brought back to school as soon as possible. Please encourage your child to check all around his/her room, and other spots in the house where classroom books might be hiding.

Weekly Wrap Up

What super hard workers your children were this week! They put so much time and effort into finishing their Habitat posters, as well as creating their Geometry Town posters. The posters will be hanging up here at school for a while, so unless you stop by the hallway or our classroom, you won’t get to see them at home quite yet. I’m going to work on taking pics of all of their projects and putting the pictures on their student blogs so you can see them as soon as possible though. I’ll post an announcement on our class Twitter page and our class blog when they are up.

We love to celebrate birthdays in our classroom! But, please remember that we are a tree nut free classroom, as well as vegetarian friendly. It’s vital that you talk with me a few days before you plan to send in any food treats so we can go over more specifics. Also, remember that birthdays can be celebrated with non-food treats like stickers, pencils, tattoos, etc... If your child has a summer birthday, and would like to celebrate early in June, that’s fabulous. Pick a day that works for you, and let me know a few days ahead of time. I would just like to avoid celebrating two birthdays on the same day if possible, so each child has their own special day.

We had our town meeting kickoff today for our One School, One Book program. This year we are reading the book, The World According to Humphrey. One child from each family at Toffolon will be bringing home your family’s book today. We have a school website for our One School, One Book project, which has our in-school reading schedule, resources, and a fun blog by Humphrey about his visits at Toffolon.

New pics from March and early April will be added to our class photo album by the end of the weekend. Look for an announcement on our class Twitter page!

Here's what we'll be learning about next week:

• Reader’s Workshop: Using accountable talk to discuss fiction books we read
• Writer’s Workshop: Persuasive writing - Saying more
• Spelling: Unit 27 - Words home on Monday, test on Friday
• Math: Finish up geometry and hopefully start perimeter
• Science: Force and Motion

Please remember that my door is always open if you have any questions or concerns. Together we are partners in your child’s education!

Information Books

Our information writing books have been published... sort of. Here's the quick link to the books:
https://sites.google.com/a/plainvilleschools.org/carnevalea/info-books

Now here's the story behind publishing their stories... I'm having some technical difficulties getting them into Kindle format, and retaining the page breaks for chapters and special formatting like bulleted lists. So, what I've done is put them all into PDF format and post them on our class website. In the meantime I've got calls out for help on social media to all my techie teacher friends and even further on Twitter. So hopefully I'll be able to get the books in ePub format so your children can all download each others' books onto their devices.

Weekly Wrap Up

As you know, our class is now on Twitter! Each week I’ll pick two children to help post daily tweets about what they’re learning or doing in school. This blog has more in depth info. along with what’s in this newsletter, and Twitter has quick short bits and pics of what goes on each day. Stay totally in the loop of your child’s school day, and hopefully never hear the answer of “nothing” when asking your child what they did in school by following us on Twitter and reading the blog. You can find us on Twitter by looking up @mrscarnevale3rd. For each parent or step-parent that follows us on Twitter, your child will receive 50 tiger tickets! For each other relative such as grandparent or aunt/uncle, your child will receive 10 tiger tickets!  

From time to time I send home Scholastic Book Orders. Please don’t feel obligated to purchase anything. It’s just one of many ways to find books and materials for your child. Along with ordering through the paper form, you could also order online. A larger selection of books is actually available online. The order link and our class code are on our class website. Online and paper forms are due next Friday, Nov. 21. If you send the form to school, please be sure to pay with a check made out to Scholastic Book Club. Please do not send cash.

We are well underway with our study of multiplication! We start unit 5 next week, which covers multiplying by 0, 1, 2, 5, 9, and 10 (and I throw in 11 too). If your child does not have flash cards you can find many free sets online, or you can ask me for one and I’ll print out a set for him/her. A multiplication card game your child can play at home for more practice was sent home on Friday. You can find another copy of it in our class website's File Cabinet. Feel free to count time with this game on the math fact log!

Here's what we'll be studying next week:

Reader’s Workshop: Nonfiction books
Writer’s Workshop: Information writing
Spelling: Unit 11 - Words home on Monday, test on Friday
Math: Topic 5, Multiplication
Social Studies: Native Americans

Please remember that my door is always open if you have any questions or concerns. Together we are partners in your child’s education!