Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 10/1 - 10/5}

• Monday 10/8 and Tuesday 10/9 - NO SHOOL - Fall Break
• Tuesday 10/16- Spirit Night at Zaxby's - 5-8pm
• Friday 10/19, 8 am - Field Trip money due
• Monday 10/22, 12-7pm - Report Card Day
• Dippin' Dots will be sold on Tuesdays in the Lunchroom - $2
• If you missed "Meet the Principal" Night, find the powerpoint on the DPES webpage
• See the DPES webpage about the envelope fundraiser
• We encourage you to sign up for Notify Me and the Inow Parent Portal to view your child's grades
• 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.
• 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. 

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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! :-)

READING:

• Skill: Compare and Contrast
• Strategy: Visualize
• Vocabulary Skill: Context clues
• Vocabulary Words: adorable, compassionate, exactly, iguana, mature, mention, trophies

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: Singular and Plural Nouns
• Spelling Skill: final syllable -le
• Spelling Words: handle, trouble, simple, people, middle, table, little, gentle, poodle, pickle, noddle, saddle, jugle, uncle, riddle, example, throttle, obstacle, miracle, muscle
• Writing:   Narratives, paragraph structure

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: Spelling HW assigned
• Tuesday: Grammar pg. 25 (if not completed in class)
• Wednesday: Grammar pg. 26 (if not completed in class)
• Thursday: Study for DLR 9 Quiz and spelling test
• Tests Today:  Singular and Plural Noun test, Compare/Contrast and vocabTest
• Friday: Tests Today:  DLR 9 Quiz and spelling test, complete Compare/Contrast and vocabulary Test

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 9/24-28}

• Monday 10/8 and Tuesday 10/9 - NO SHOOL - Fall Break
• Dippin' Dots will be sold on Tuesdays in the Lunchroom - $2
• APT dues are being collected - $5 per family 
• If you missed "Meet the Principal" Night, find the powerpoint on the DPES webpage
• See the DPES webpage about the envelope fundraiser
• We encourage you to sign up for Notify Me and the Inow Parent Portal to view your child's grades
• 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, September 3rd LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Thursday, September 6th: Progress Reports sent home 
• 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. 

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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! :-)

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:   Word Choice 

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 8 Quiz and spelling test
• Tests Today:  Common and Proper noun test, Vocabulary Quiz
• Friday: Tests Today:  DLR 8 Quiz and spelling test

Announcements, Plans, Assignments {Week Of September 17 - 21}

• Tuesday, September 18th: School Picture Day
• Dippin' Dots will be sold on Tuesdays in the Lunchroom - $2
• APT dues are being collected - $5 per family 
• If you missed "Meet the Principal" Night, find the powerpoint on the DPES webpage
• See the DPES webpage about the envelope fundraiser
• We encourage you to sign up for Notify Me and the Inow Parent Portal to view your child's grades
• 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, September 3rd LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Thursday, September 6th: Progress Reports sent home 
• 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. 

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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: 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 7 Quiz
• Tests Today:  UNIT 1 TEST
• Friday: Tests Today:  DLR 7 Quiz, UNIT 1 TEST

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 9/10-9/14}

• Dippin' Dots will be sold on Tuesdays in the Lunchroom - $2
• APT dues are being collected - $5 per family 
• If you missed "Meet the Principal" Night, find the powerpoint on the DPES webpage
• See the DPES webpage about the envelope fundraiser
• We encourage you to sign up for Notify Me and the Inow Parent Portal to view your child's grades
• 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, September 3rd LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Thursday, September 6th: Progress Reports sent home 
• 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. 

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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! :-)

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 6 Quiz and Spelling Test
• Tests Today:  Vocabulary Quiz, Compound Sentences Grammar Test
• Friday: Tests Today: Spelling Test, DLR 6 Quiz

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 9/4-9/7}

• Dippin' Dots will be sold on Tuesdays in the Lunchroom - $2
• APT dues are being collected - $5 per family 
• We encourage you to sign up for Notify Me and the Inow Parent Portal to view your child's grades
• 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, September 3rd LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Thursday, September 6th: Progress Reports sent home 
• 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: 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: Study spelling and DLR 5
• Tests Today:  Compare/Contrast Test, Commands/ Exclamations Grammar Test
• Friday: Tests Today:  Complete Compare/Contrast Test, Spelling Test, DLR 5 Quiz

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 8/27}

• APT dues are being collected - $5 per family 
• We encourage you to sign up for Notify Me and the Inow Parent Portal to view your child's grades
• 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, September 3rd LABOR DAY, NO SCHOOL!
• Thursday, September 6th: Progress Reports sent home 
• 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: Study Vocab words and Spelling words

                   ~ Tests Today:  Comprehension Test, Statements/Questions Grammar Test

            Friday: Tests Today:  Spelling Test, DLR 4 Quiz

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