Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 8/20}

ANNOUNEMENTS:

• APT and Meet the Principal Night: August 21^{st -} Two Sessions will be offered...5:30 and 7:00. Hope to see you there!

• Snack (3^rd-6^th): purchase juice and snack from 7:15-7:45, before going to homeroom 

*Morning Carpool

• Students cannot be dropped off or picked up in the front parking lot, please use carpool line located on Jay St. and McQueen Smith

• Always pull completely forward and wait for all cars to unload. Do not go around the cars in front of you.

• McQueen Smith loop closes at 7:45, Jay St. loop closes at 7:55  

*Afternoon Carpool

•  Please write your child’s name in LARGE print on a paper plate or piece of paper
• If you've not yet dowloaded the app and signed up for ClassDojo yet, please do so ASAP! Your child should have brought home his/her class code the first week of school. Please let me know if yours has been misplaced. This app will keep you up to date on your child's behavior at school, as well as allow me to send out messages and class updates. 

• Doors open daily at 7:15

• Park in parking lots only.

•  Parking along the front loop is NOT ALLOWED and poses a major safety issue for our students. PLEASE USE CROSSWALKS.

• NO WALKING UP TO GET YOUR CHILD FROM THE CARPOOL AREA

• Parents are allowed to have lunch with their children. Please be mindful this is not a time for parent/teacher conferences. Please respect that this is also the teachers’ lunch period. If you will be staying for more than one lunch period it required for you to wait in the front office or in the lunchroom between lunch periods.

• See the Tardy Policy on the DPES website if you have questions. Tardies begin on Monday. 

• PLEASE send in BOX TOPS!

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS - Long onto the Scholastic book club website by clicking below. I encourage you to check out the books and possibly offer to purchase one for your child as a reward, incentive, etc. These are great, quality books at a terrific price! To order, simply click HERE. 

Our class activation code is: L7VRY


The more books YOU order, the more reward points our class earns to purchase new books for the classroom library. It's a win for all! :-)

PLANS

READING:

• Skill: Sequence
• Strategy: summarize
• Vocabulary Skill: compound words
• Vocabulary Words: carpenter, carpetmaker, knowledge, marketplace, merchant, plenty, straying, thread

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: statements and questions
• Spelling Skill: plurals
• Spelling Words: pennies, inches, plants, families, bodies, glasses, wishes, pockets, lists, copies, parties, bunches, crashes, supplies, pencils, accidents, libraries, mysteries, carpenters, merchants 
• Writing:   

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: spelling homework assigned  --> due Friday (Students are ONLY required to do homework on the words missed on the pretest on Monday; pretest is sent home. Students who miss 0-2 words (make an A) do not have to do the homework or take the test on Friday.)
• Tuesday: Grammar pg. 5 (if not completed in class)
• Wednesday:  Grammar pg. 6 (if not completed in class)
• Study for vocabulary
• Thursday: 
• Tests Today:  Sequence Comprehension Test with vocabulary, Subject/predicate Grammar Test
• Friday: 
• Tests Today: Complete Comprehension Test, Spelling Test, DLR 3 Quiz