The McMenamy Messenger
November5, 2010
The Week in Review Parent/Teacher
Reading: We have officially started our Daily 5. Conferences
I love that this is up and running because it gives I have included a schedule with your child’s time
me the opportunity to work with small groups highlighted. Please let me know as soon as
and individual students on a more consistent possible if your time will not work. I am looking
basis. forward to seeing every parent next week.
Writing: Thank you for joining us for our
Author’s Lunch today. I was very pleased with
the beginnings the students chose to use with
their stories. We will be working on the middle of
Turkey in
the story for the next few writing cycles. Be
looking for focused stories with verbs to add Disguise
details to be happening in your child’s writing Please send completed turkeys to school as
soon. soon as they are completed. It is fun to see how
Math: We are changing the date of our test to each family decided to disguise their turkey.
Thursday, November 11. Your child should be able
to subtract using regrouping, subtract from a HELP NEEDED!!
number that includes a zero (306 – 259), use I would appreciate have a volunteer or two to
rounding to estimate, and solve a subtraction help hang the disguised turkeys in the hall on
problem mentally or by counting up. Thursday. I would like to have them displayed
Social Studies: We traveled to Washington, before the parent teacher conferences so all
D.C. today and learned about the three families can enjoy seeing what disguises were
branches of our government. Different made. Please send a note if you are available to
students took on various rolls to pass a help.
law for our class. On Monday, all Count Down to Fort
citizens of McMenamy must have 3
sharpened pencils. Day
We only need less than 50 Falcon Coupons to have
our Fort Day. I will send a note home to let you know
the exact date of our celebration once we reach our
Word Of The Day goal.
This week’s list:
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Upcoming Events
November 11 and 12: Parent Teacher Conferences
and Book Fair
Subtraction Facts November 15 and 17: Subtraction Facts Showdown
November 17: Doughnuts with Dads 7:45 am
Showdown November 17: Picture Retake day
November 19: Fairview Fever Day (wear your blue and
Start practicing those facts. We will have the yellow)
first round of the SHOW DOWN on Monday, Nov. 24-26: No School – Thanksgiving Break
November 15. I will have a signup sheet for our
trail mix at Parent Teacher Conferences!
Congratulations
Falcon Club (October): Naomi Garson