CONFERENCES!

Your child should have given you a green sheet of paper when they got home today, telling you the day/time of our conference for next week. If you did not receive it, please send me an email-rmazzeo@oxfordcentral.org

Reminder- as we wrap up another month of school, the October book review is due this week!

See you all soon!

Lit Circles!

It is so exciting, we are well into our first (of a few) Literature Circles in Language Arts!

Students are broken up into three groups and are taking responsibility within their groups. The three books being read are all written by Judy Blume and star Fudge & Peter in "Double Fudge" and "Fudge a Mania" (Fudge is Peter's younger brother that can make him a bit nuts at times) and our other book, "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great", stars our favorite know it all-Sheila!

Also, we will be working on vocabulary during weeks which we are in Literature Circles. This week's words focus on weather and shopping!
Please help your child review at home and bring up in conversation if possible!: TEPID; SWELTERING; BALMY; BRISK; HUMID; THRIFTY; NEGOTIATE; WARRANTY; REDEEM; REBATE

Have a great week!

Family Pictures

This week we are reading "Family Pictures" in Language Arts. What is neat about this story, is that we are studying the author's purpose (which in this case, is to entertain). The author remembers her childhood growing up in Texas with her Spanish speaking family and clearly displays how proud she is of her heritage by writing the story in English on the top portion of the page and in Spanish on the bottom. What great and extra practice for Friday's Spanish class!

Spelling List:
station
vacation
wild
lion
invite
broke
remote
danger
cable
behind
hide
arrive
drove
stole
April
bacon
pint
decide
whole
smoke
*handkerchief
*inspired
*involved
*laundry
*scene

SPIRIT DAY

Tomorrow-Tuesday, October 5 is Spirit Day!! This month's theme is pajamas or of course, you can always wear our school colors!

CELEBRATION OF WRITERS!

Today we held our first of many more "Writing Celebrations!"

This crew has been hard at work at creating amazing Alphabet Books that we inspired by "T is for Touchdown."

There was also a fun part where each student wrote a story about saving a pet and had a fellow writer act it out-the more vivid the details-the more colorful the show!

A few students even volunteered to write and share songs, plays and poems to delight us.

Take a look at the pictures to see what a great time was had.

EVERYONE SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF THEIR EFFORTS!

"Yingtao's New Friend"

This week in Scott Foresman we are reading 'Yingtao's New Friend" about a boy and his family from China that have moved to the U.S. Yingtao's family is very musical and unfortunately, he is not. However, he does meet a classmate, Matthew who is very musically gifted and a friendship is formed.

Obviously, this week's words for the Spelling List are from that story and our vocabulary words are musical!

Spell-
1. band
2. blanket
3. finger
4. window
5. forgot
6. trouble
7. couple
8. cash
9. backpack
10. build
11. pond
12. closet
13. young
14. tough
15. January
16. river
17. guilt
18. block
19. chop
20. cousins
*instruments
*measures
*orchestra
*rehearsal
*triangle

Have a great week!

TGIF!

PICTURES ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27!!

Just a gentle reminder that our first of the monthly book reviews is due on Wednesday, 9/30. September reading logs are due on the first day of October.

Check our Friday newsletters for additoinal information about class!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!