Happy Nevada Day and Happy Halloween

Week of October 27th

Dear Parents,

What a GREAT week!!!  We completed our Then and Now Projects.  The past 5 weeks have been filled with so much learning as we have researched, written, and created artifacts that went along with specific topics (Transportation, Games, Cooking, Music, and Education) 150 years ago and now.  There were definitely moments of frustration, joy, and amazement as students took on this very challenging project. The projects are now at the Churchill County Museum and will be judged this week.  I am soooooo PROUD of the students of Room 5 and can hardly wait to start the next project!!

As you know Halloween is a holiday that gets recognized at Oasis Academy!  I am super excited to have elements of Halloween throughout my lessons for the coming week and of course to enjoy the students in their costumes on Thursday.  Our party, being organized by Mrs. Hyde will be on Thursday as well.  It will run from 2:30 PM until 4:00 PM.  

Last week in Math we continued to work with open number lines.  The students are really picking up this strategy.  This past week we used open number lines to add, subtract, and solve word problems.  Students also got practice writing 2-digit addition and subtraction word problems.  We are using these student written problems to practice more open number lines and to practice a new strategy that students will learn this week--Adding With Partial Sums.

Here's the homework schedule for this week...

Mon.     Partial Sum 2-digit Addition Worksheet

Tues.    Partial Sum 3-digit Subtraction Worksheet

Wed.     Partial Sum Word Problems Worksheet

Thurs.    No Homework (Enjoy a Happy Halloween and Nevada Day)

It was wonderful to meet with many of you on Friday and I look forward to meeting with everyone else this coming week!!  Parent Teacher Conference time is a powerful opportunity for us to come together to focus on your child!!  Mrs. Jackson and myself appreciate your timeliness in coming to your conference and your input during the conference.  

As I close this week's blog, I hope that you all enjoy Halloween and Nevada Day!!

Sincerely,
Anne Bloomfield

Here's Mrs. Jackson's reading blog information...

October 27-30

Halloween is here!

My household is bustling with pumpkin carving, costumes and Halloween preparations.  I imagine some of yours may be as well.

This week we will spend time focusing our mini-lessons and  our Guided Reading groups on 6 important question stems.  Those we will be covering include who, what, when, where, why and how. Halloween related books will be used as models for our questioning techniques.  

We will also spend time working on a Close Reading of the song Monster Mash.  This Close Reading will include answering the above questions, studying unfamiliar vocabulary, identifying secret story word patterns as well as long and short vowels.

In our Word Work we will be studying “ain” words.  Your child should have a list of Spelling words using this “ain” word family in their blue Reading folders.   They will be tested on these words on Thursday.  They  may also bring home a reading comprehension sheet asking who, what, when, where, why, how questions about their Guided Reading books.

It was so fun to meet all of you during conferences.  I appreciate your input and knowledge about how I can even better educate your child. It’s great to work as a team to make your child successful in their Reading.

Please continue to communicate with me if you have any other questions, ideas or comments.   This week Mrs. Bloomfield and I still have over 10 conferences to complete.  We will be conferencing some afternoons until 6 and then on Friday from 8-1.  In some conferences, we created specific Action Plans.   Due to this busy conferencing schedule, I will begin incorporating some the Action Plans we created this week or the week of November 3.   

Have a great week!  I hope you have lots of spooky times together!

Mrs. Jackson