Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of Sept. 25th-29th}

• Please help out our guidance counselors by taking this short survey 
• Monday, Sept. 25th: Parent Support Association Meeting, 10am - DPES Lunchroom
• Tuesday, September 26th: School Picture Day
• October 2-6: Food Drive
• Wednesday, October 4th: Walk to School Day
• Mon. and Tues. October 9th & 10th: FALL BREAK - NO SCHOOL
• Friday, October 13th: First 9 Weeks ENDS
• Monday, October 23rd: Parent Report Card Day
• October 24-27: Red Ribbon Week
• Thursday, Oct. 26th, 5pm: Fall Festival & 3rd Grade Program
• 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.
• Sign up for Notify Me via the DPES website
• Follow the DPES Facebook page for announcements and updates
• Consider completing a parent survey HERE

• 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.

PLANS

READING:

• Skill:Main Idea and Details
• Strategy: Monitor and Clarify
• Vocabulary Skill: Synonyms
• Vocabulary Words: cuddles, flippers, frozen, hatch, pecks, preen, snuggles

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: common and proper nouns
• Spelling Skill: v/cv and vc/v syllables
• Spelling Words: finish, pilot, even, wagon, music, silent, rapid, female, lemon, pupil, focus, robot, tulip, camel, salad, resident, spinach, climate, tradition, innocent
• Writing:   Narratives

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: Spelling HW assigned
• Tuesday: Grammar pg. 21 (if not completed in class)
• Wednesday: Grammar pg. 22 (if not completed in class), Study for vocabulary quiz
• Thursday: Study for DLR 7 Quiz and spelling test
• Tests Today:  Common and Proper noun test, Vocabulary Quiz
• Friday: Tests Today:  DLR 7 Quiz and spelling test

• Monday, Sept 18, 10-10:30am: Parent workshop on bullying, DPES Lunchroom
• Please help out our guidance counselors by taking this short survey 
• Tuesday, September 26th: School Picture Day
• October 2-6: Food Drive
• Wednesday, October 4th: Walk to School Day
• Mon. and Tues. October 9th & 10th: FALL BREAK - NO SCHOOL
• Friday, October 13th: First 9 Weeks ENDS
• Monday, October 23rd: Parent Report Card Day
• October 24-27: Red Ribbon Week
• Thursday, Oct. 26th, 5pm: Fall Festival & 3rd Grade Program
• 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.
• Monday, August 28th, 10am: Parent Support Association Meeting - if interested
• Monday, September 4th LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Sign up for Notify Me via the DPES website
• Follow the DPES Facebook page for announcements and updates
• Consider completing a parent survey HERE

• 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.

PLANS

READING:

• Skill: Review: Character/Setting/Theme, Sequence, Compare/Contrast, Author’s Purpose
• Strategy:  Review: Background knowledge, Story Structure, Visualization, Summarizing
• Vocabulary Skill: Review: Multiple meaning words, homophones, glossary/dictionary, context clues, prefixes and suffixes
• Vocabulary Words:NONE

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: : Review: Sentences/Fragments, Subjects/Predicates, Statements/Questions, Commands/Exclamations, Compound Sentences
• Spelling Skill: Review: VC/CV Syllables, plurals, adding endings (-ed, -ing, -er, -est), Vowel digraphs: ee, ea, ay, ei, ow, oa, Vowel Diphthongs
• Spelling Words: NONE
• Writing:   Paragraph organization

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: 
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: Study for DLR 6 Quiz
• Tests Today:  UNIT 1 TEST
• Friday: Tests Today:  DLR 6 Quiz, UNIT 1 TEST

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of September 11-15}

• Monday, Sept 11, 10-10:30am: Parent workshop on bullying, DPES Lunchroom
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• COUPON BOOKS: Were sent home last week. It is our goal for each student to sell 3 coupon books. The first turn in date for money is Wednesday, September 13th. 
• 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.
• Monday, August 28th, 10am: Parent Support Association Meeting - if interested
• Monday, September 4th LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Sign up for Notify Me via the DPES website
• Follow the DPES Facebook page for announcements and updates
• Consider completing a parent survey HERE

• 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. 

READING:

• Skill: Author's Purpose
• Strategy:  Story Structure
• Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes and Suffixes
• Vocabulary Words: arranged, bundles, dangerously, errands, excitedly, steady, unwrapped, wobbled

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: compound Sentences
• Spelling Skill: Vowel diphthons /ou/ spelled ou, ow and /oi/ spelled oi, oy
• Spelling Words: proud, shower, hour, amount, voyage, choice, avoid, thousand, prowl, employ, bounce, poison, annoy, appoint, broil, however, mountain, coward, turmoil, chowder 
• Writing:   Paragraph organization

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: Spelling homework assigned
• Tuesday: , Grammar pg. 17 (if not completed in class)
• Wednesday:  Grammar pg. 18 (if not completed in class), Study for Vocabulary Quiz
• Thursday: Study for DLR 5 Quiz and Spelling Test
• Tests Today:  Vocabulary Quiz, Compound Sentences Grammar Test
• Friday: Tests Today: Spelling Test, DLR 5 Quiz

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {week of Sept. 5-8}

• COUPON BOOKS: Were sent home last week. It is our goal for each student to sell 3 coupon books. The first turn in date for money is Wednesday, September 13th. 
• 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.
• Monday, August 28th, 10am: Parent Support Association Meeting - if interested
• Monday, September 4th LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Sign up for Notify Me via the DPES website
• Follow the DPES Facebook page for announcements and updates
• Consider completing a parent survey HERE

• 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. 

PLANS

READING:

• Skill: Compare and Contrast
• Strategy:  Background Knowledge
• Vocabulary Skill: Context Clues for multiple meaning words
• Vocabulary Words: laundry, section, shelves, spoiled, store, thousands, traded, variety

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: commands and exclamations
• Spelling Skill: Vowel digraphs
• Spelling Words: clean, agree, teeth, dream, grain, coach, display, window, shadow, cheese, peach, braid, Sunday, float, thrown, entertain, complain, bleachers, willow, wheat
• Writing:   Paragraph organization

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: NO SCHOOL
• Tuesday: Spelling homework (only 2 activities required due to a short week), Grammar pg. 13 (if not completed in class)
• Wednesday:  Grammar pg. 14 (if not completed in class)
• Thursday: 
• Tests Today:  Sequence & Compare/Contrast Test, Commands/ Exclamations Grammar Test
• Friday: Tests Today:  Complete Sequence & Compare/Contrast Test, Spelling Test, DLR 4 Quiz

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 8/28-9/1}

• 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.
• Monday, August 28th, 10am: Parent Support Association Meeting - if interested
• Monday, September 4th LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Sign up for Notify Me via the DPES website
• Follow the DPES Facebook page for announcements and updates
• Consider completing a parent survey HERE

• 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:  Visualize & Review Summarizing

            Vocabulary Skill: Glossary/Dictionary

            Vocabulary Words: gear, parka, splendid, twitch, willow, yanked

LANGUAGE ARTS:

            Grammar Skill: statements and questions

            Spelling Skill: Base words and Endings -ed, -ing, -er, -est

             Spelling Words: using, getting, easiest, swimming, heavier, greatest, pleased,                          emptied, leaving, worried, strangest, freezing, funniest, angrier, shopped, included,                 occurred, supplying, scarier, happiest 

            Writing:   

ASSIGNMENTS

           Monday: spelling homework assigned  --> due Friday

           Tuesday: Grammar pg. 9 (if not completed in class)

           Wednesday:  Grammar pg. 10 (if not completed in class)

                   ~ Study for for vocabulary quiz

            Thursday: 

                   ~ Tests Today:  Vocabulary Quiz, Statements/Questions Grammar Test

            Friday: Tests Today:  Spelling Test, DLR 3 Quiz

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 8/21-8/25}

• 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
• Tuesday: Grammar pg. 5 (if not completed in class)
• Wednesday:  Grammar pg. 6 (if not completed in class)
• Study for for vocabulary quiz
• Thursday: 
• Tests Today:  Character/Sequence Comprehension Test, Statements/Questions Grammar Test
• Friday: Tests Today: Complete Comprehension Test, Spelling Test, DLR 2 Quiz

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 8/14-8/18}

• 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 last week. 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.

•  Beginning Monday, August 15, we will require students to walk themselves to class. If parents have business to handle within the school, you must enter the FRONT DOORS only, sign in at the front office, and receive a visitor pass.

•  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

• Send back all completed paperwork and supplies

• 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: Story Elements: Character, setting, theme
• Strategy: background knowledge
• Vocabulary Skill: homophones
• Vocabulary Words: bat, battery, blew, fuel, plug, term, vision

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: sentences and fragments
• Spelling Skill: Short syllables - vc/cv pattern 
• Spelling Words: happen, lettuce, basket, winter, sister, problem, supper, subject, lesson, spelling, napkin, collar, traffic, suggest, puppet, skillet, picnic, planet, system, pumpkin
• Writing:   

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: spelling homework assigned  --> due Friday
• Tuesday: Grammar pg. 1 (if not completed in class)
• Wednesday:  Grammar pg. 2 (if not completed in class)
• Study for for vocabulary quiz
• Thursday: 
• Tests Today:  Vocab Quiz, Sentences/Fragments Test
• Friday: Tests Today: Spelling Test, DLR 1 Quiz