Hi,
I had family in town last week (8 family members including our niece's one year old little girl!) so stayed home on Thursday and Friday to spend time with them. I had a great time but am happy to be back with your children.
This Friday, November 18, our pen pals are coming to visit! We will be meeting in the library at 1:45 (right after our specials) and stay there until dismissal. We will be performing some Thanksgiving Reader's Theaters (scripts will some home tomorrow), interviewing our pen pals about their Thanksgiving traditions, and writing poems about things for which we are thankful. We will play some games, if we have time. We are excited about seeing them again. Feel free to join us for our visit!
Last Friday, the kids enjoyed a concert from the Austin Jazz Workshop. I heard that it was a great show.
This Tuesday will be the second meeting of the FCE Math Club! The children (kdg-5th grade) explore math problem solving games. At their last meeting, they were using strategies and building things like the game, Mouse Trap. Most of your children love a challenge and love to solve puzzles. Come and check out math club! They meet from 2:45-3:45 in Mrs. Washburn's portable. Hope to see lots of our fabulous mathematicians there!
This Thursday will be the second meeting of our Writing Club! Encourage your child to stay and write with us. The writing club is a place to write and share writing. Mrs.Peterson and I conference with the children about their writing and help to revise and publish some pieces. The children (2nd grade-5th grade) are encouraged to experiment with writing in different forms and write for the love of writing! We will be meeting in the library from 2:45-4:00 every other Thursday. Pick up in the front of the school. Hope to see lots of our awesome writers there!
Reading and Social Studies-We have been working on projects about our Texas explorers and integrating some reading lessons as well. We also are reading and talking about the characters and how they change in our book club books.
Writing-We are writing essays and expository writing. We planned a piece using a graphic organizer on one of the explorers. We also wrote about sound energy, mechanical energy, and heat energy are all created when playing a musical instrument like a guitar. Role Models are the topic for our current essays. We planned these essays and began our first drafts. We will be revising and editing these pieces and then writing our final copies. We will continue working on essays as well as some more personal narratives.
Math-Multiplication is very fun! We are discovering and sharing new strategies, playing games to practice facts, and multiplying larger numbers. We are also problem solving and sharing strategies using multiplication.
Science-We examined several everyday objects and decided which form or forms of energy were used. We will be experimenting some more with these items this week and taking a vocabulary test on Thursday. Don't forget to go to Stemscopes for extra practice. (go to our school website, for teachers, Stemscopes, user name-Bartholomew, password-bats) Do the activities in the buckets for Forms of Energy and Conductors, Insulators, and Electricity.
Dates to remember:
Red Dragon Pillow Drive continues
Tuesday-Math Club-Mrs. Washburn's portable 2:45-3:45
6:00 pm-Reflections Gallery Night
TAG referral packets available for print-out from District Website-TAG department
Wednesday-Picture Retakes
Thursday-Writing Club-Library-2:45-3:45
Thanksgiving Meal at regular lunchtimes
Friday-PTA Movie Night Under the Stars-7:00pm
Wednesday, November 23-Friday, November 25-No school, Thanksgiving Holiday
Have a great week! Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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