Monday, November 15, 2010

Happy Monday!

Welcome to another school week!

The Ecosystem diaramas look fantastic! It is very obvious that a great deal of time and effort went into these. Check back later this week for pictures!

In LA this week, we are reading "A Big City Dream" which is about a young girl who lives in the city and opens up a garden by her apartment so that she can see some green! Here is the Spelling list from this weeks reading:
1. often
2. might
3. known
4. they
5. remember
6. surprised
7. caught
8. island
9. finally
10. really
11. several
12. everyone
13. everybody
14. interesting
15. swimming
16. camera
17. December
18. evening
19. beginning
20. February
*blisters
*catalog
*celebrate
*impressed
*padlock

Please complete this week's Language Arts homework in your best cursive!

Enjoy the week!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Some classroom updates:


*In an effort to conserve paper usage, I will NOT be sending home the "Buddy Read" sheets anymore. Students should be writing down the weekly read in their agenda books and are responsible for reading with someone at home still.

*On the topic of agenda books-I am trying to encourage more independence in the students, they should be writing their homework in their agenda book on their own-I will not sign it at the end of the day. I will check to see if they are writing their assignments in their books at some point during the following day, but I will no longer be checking each book and signing at the end of the day. If I notice an issue with a particular student, I will then go back to checking that student's agenda.

*Everyone has been doing such an awesome job with their writing and can't wait to share a piece (or two) at our celebration on the 24th (for LA students)-if you are available that day and would like to come it would be greatly appreciated-just remember to send your response in!

Thank you!
Rose Mazzeo

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Lenape Indians

Our current unit in Social Studies, deals with early people of New Jersey and we have been discussing the Lenape Indians. If you are interested, click on the link: http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php to check out some of the games that were played by the Lenape and other tribes hundreds of years ago!

Enjoy!