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News From Room 207Week of September 26, 2011
Quote of the Week
Failure is success if
we learn from it
-Malcolm Forbes
SpecialsMonday-MusicTuesday-PEWednesday-ArtThursday-HealthFriday-Chorus
Media Dates 9/13, 9/27, 10/11, 10/25, 11/8,11/22, 12/6, 12/20,
1/3, 1/17, 1/31, 2/14, 2/28,3/13, 4/3, 4/24, 5/8, 5/22Snack/Recess
daily at ~10:45amLunch 12:05-12:40pm
September BirthdaysSeptember16th Sasha
EnglishLanguage Arts (ELA)Our focus this week will be on the
strategies we can use to monitorour understanding as we
readfiction and nonfiction text.
Additionally, we will continue to look at
helping verbs and infected endings. Inwriting, we will be
focusing on thestory critical setting in our storiesand how using a
variety of senses todescribe our setting will help ourstories come
to life.
MathWe will continue with Unit 2. Be sureto have your child
explore the mathlinks for unit 2 at the following sites:Unit 2
Math FactsRead AloudMark has decided that it is time tomake a
change and has been tryingto make friends and become moreengaged in
school. Not everyone hasgreeted Marks efforts with openarms though.
Some of his teachersare less than enthused as Markstruggles to
become more involved.
Social StudiesLast week the children learned howdifferent
mapping tools can teachthem about geography and the world.This
week, we will focus ondirectionality and the compass rose.
ScienceOur mock rock dissection is complete.This week, we will
observe crystals
and then next week perform ascratch test on various
minerals.
