Dear Families,
Good morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend. We had a lovely, quiet weekend. It is amazing how relaxing our weekends are when Jim can't do much! LOL. We enjoyed some family time at the park and lots of football yesterday.
- Battle of the Books: Battle of the Books is a very fun reading competition. Students read a variety of given books and will have to answer questions in battles about what they read. Students will be put onto teams with students from all 3 classes. They will begin by reading and reading! There are 35 books that each team is responsible for. This means each child will have to read AT LEAST 20-30 minutes a day. We will provide class time, but they will read at home too. Students will be journaling as they read. The competition will be the week before Thanksgiving. We will begin next week!!!
- Wildwood: If you would like to come on the Wildwood Field Trip please let me know ASAP. We would love to have you as it is a very fun, but remember you won't be with your child's group. Wildwood asks us not to because parents tend to try and help their own child and the purpose of the trip is for students to problem solve and learn how to be a leader.
- Math: Topic 2 tests are graded and are in Parent Vue. We did much better as a whole on this test. The average was 87% with most students making significant growth from their pre-test! We will be pre-testing Topic 3 today and begin instruction tomorrow.
- Sub: I will be gone Monday. Since I didn't go to Colorado I have a personal day so I can go with Michael's class to the Pumpkin Patch. I am SO excited and a little nervous to be a parent in charge of a small group of 3 year olds in public!
- Twitter: If you have a Twitter account please follow us at @MrsDugganSPE. I post almost daily the fun things we are up to in the classroom!
- Grade Updates: I know a lot of you have been on Parent Vue checking grades. That is great way to keep up with what we have been working on. Please know that grades are updated each week by Tuesday at 10am. If you check on Monday they won't be updated and there might be missing assignments that aren't really missing. Same thing for a Friday. If you ever have questions about grades please let me know.
- Specials Schedule: (Today is a Day 1)
o Day 1: PE/Music
o Day 2: Computer
o Day 3: Art
o Day 4: Spanish/Music
o Day 5: PE/Spanish
Important Dates: (New dates bolded)
October 3rd: Start of Battle of the Books
October 3rd: Mrs. Duggan Absent
October 4th: Field Trip to PSMS to see Odyssey
October 5th: Wildwood Field Trip
October 12th: Picture Day
October 14th: No School: End of 1st Quarter
October 25th: Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 26th: Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 27th: No School/Conferences
October 28th: No School
Math: Topic 3-Multiplication
Reading: Book Reports! J (Due Thursday)-Author's Purpose
Writing: Potato Narratives-due Wednesday/Intro to Memoir
Word Work: -able/-ible and synonym/antonym
Social Studies: none
Science: Decomposers-lab work
Intervention: Reading Groups/problem solving
