What's up for next week??

No school Monday!

Reading:
This week we will be reading a story about Astronaut Mae Jemison.
We will continue with the skill of cause and effect.
Student will quiz over this story on Wed. or Thurs. depending on which group they are in.
Timeline reading and creating
SRI tests for October will be taken on Thursday for any students who didn't go up in September.

Grammar:
Action verbs
Finding action verbs and Nouns in a sentence
Noun retests for students who didn't pass last week: Thursday
    Students who didn't pass will be working in small groups with me this week at various times!

Writing:
Take our essay maps and turn them into essays about courage

Vocabulary:
Test on Thursday on the laptops

Spelling:
Test on Friday

Lip Sync contest will be on Friday morning!

I will be in Knoxville on Thursday observing their PBIS (behavior system) .  This is the behavior system we will be implementing after winter break at Jacobson Elementary.

9-29-13

No homework for the weekend.  Enjoy your extra day off on Monday and come back ready to work extra hard!

9-26-13

No homework tonight!

Essay planner web page for Thursday

Essay planner

9-25-13

Homework for tonight:
*read 20 minutes
*Cat and mouse cause and effect
*think about your courage topic for tomorrow's essay

Tomorrow is dress nicely day for homecoming!

9-24-13

Notes went home today about our upcoming field trip to the Science Center.  Kids will need to bring their own lunches.  Book fair volunteer sheets also went home today!

We took a noun test today that we will be correcting tomorrow.  We corrected our vocabulary test, so ask your child how they did on that test.

Homework:
High Rise Dog house cause and effect worksheet
Read 20 minutes

New spelling and vocabulary words were handed out today.  There will not be a test this week over those words, but might as well start studying them.

9-23-13

Homework tonight: Read 20 minutes

Tomorrow we will have a noun quiz over common, proper, singular, possessive, and plural nouns.

Mick's homeroom didn't get to their vocabulary quiz today, so it will be tomorrow.

HOMECOMING: Tomorrow is favorite team day.  Wear something with your favorite team on it.  We had a GREAT assembly today at the high school.  The theme this year is heroes.  

Bees

Superintendent Kirk Nelson came today to share his hobby of bee keeping!  The kids really enjoyed it and asked a TON of questions.

Homecoming dress up days

Jacobson Elementary

Monday – Backwards Day

Tuesday – Favorite Sports Team

Wednesday – Pajama Day

Thursday – Dress Up NICE Day

Friday – Bronco Day

9-19-13

Homework tonight:
Sorry guys, some kids have a couple of extra pages for tonight!  All three classes were given a packet at the beginning of the week to work on with our story this week.  Some kids finished, while others aren't quite there.  So, I can't tell you exactly which pages need to be done.  Finish what is left of your Fear Place packet.

Final draft of flashback due tomorrow!

PJ day for Haugen's homeroom.

9-18-13

Homework tonight:
Read 20 minutes
Final draft of flashback due Friday
Spelling test Friday
Vocab test Monday

pb37 Spelling homework

How much homework should a fifth grader have?

HOMEWORK QUESTIONS:
There have been a few questions lately dealing with how much homework kids should have at each grade level.  I'm not claiming to be a homework expert, but I did want to share with you the research that we are using when deciding the amount of homework to give the kids each night...

Cooper points to "The 10-Minute Rule" formulated by the National PTA and the National Education Association, which suggests that kids should be doing about 10 minutes of homework per night per grade level. In other words, 10 minutes for first-graders, 20 for second-graders and so on.

Children are all different learners.  Some will take longer and some will take shorter amount of time to finish the same work.  Our goal is for the kids to have 50 minutes or less Monday-Thursday.  If your child is CONSISTENTLY working for more than an hour on homework, please contact me and let's see what's going on.  

9-17-13

* pb136 spelling homework
* Final draft of flashback story due Friday
* Common and proper noun poster due tomorrow
* Read 20 minutes
* Spelling test Friday (new words posted on the wiki today)



Friday: PJ day for Haugen's homeroom as a DOJO reward

Dress-Up Days for Elementary NEXT WEEK

                                                Monday: Backwards Day and assembly at 9:00

                                                Tuesday: Favorite Sport Team

                                                Wednesday: Pajama Day

                                                Thursday: Dress Up Nice Day

                                                Friday: Bronco Day Dress with Bronco Pride

September 30: No school for teacher inservice

October 2: Mick's class canoe for PE
3: Haugen's class canoe
4: Bram's class canoe

8: conferences 2-6
9: Fall walk 10:00
10: conferences 4-8
11: no school

16: Field trip to the Science Center of Iowa

9-16-13

The only homework tonight is....READ!!

9-13-13

Happy Friday!
For your enjoyment....no homework!  The kids took their spelling tests home today, so ask them to see their scores.  They are doing really well in spelling and vocabulary.  I am really impressed with some of their work.  Keep it up, kiddos!

We had a good time today talking about the Cy vs. Hawks game tomorrow!



Some of the high school boys made us a video to show how much they appreciated the kids who came to the game to support the Broncos last week. So we talked about showing our Bronco pride today as well.

High School Honor Society note

The Belmond-Klemme High School National Honor Society is rising to the challenge and is holding a fundraiser for the

Kids Helping Kids

Star 106, McCloskey Appliance

Children’s Miracle Network Radiothon

Next week, September 16-20, the students are asked to donate money towards the staff member they would like to see get “Silly Stringed” during the Homecoming Pep Rally. They may bring money any or every day next week. The money will be collected during lunch and will be put towards the staff member of their choice. All money will go towards Kids Helping Kids. The staff members to choose from are Shawna, Joe, Dianna, Mr. Eide and Counselor Johnson. At the high school it is Mr. Kelley, Mrs. Burk, Ms. Barrus, Mr. Jass and Tina. Please help show your support!

9-12-13

DOJOs: Remember that parents have access to check the DOJO scores each day.  This week, several kids have lost points due to homework being incomplete!  It is so important to stay caught up.  When there is homework almost every day, one day late makes for a big pile!!

Reading Counts: We are now a month into school.  Ask your kids to show you the list of which quizzes they have passed so far.  I'd say in 4 weeks they should have at least 2 passed.  We have 4 kids that have passed 5 or more so far!  Homework each night is 20 minutes of reading.

Vocabulary test tomorrow!  Studying for this test (and reading) is the only thing the kids have for homework.  The link to the words is under wiki on the right side of the screen.

9-11-13

Sorry for the late post, everybody! Had some trouble getting to a computer today!

Homework:
Spelling test tomorrow
Fact/opinion (Bram and Mick)

9-10-13

We talked about the importance of being engaged with our school work today!  The kids came up with a list of do's and don'ts for showing interest and engagement in class. They had a great time making our do and don't video!

Homework is different for each class, so check your homeroom!

Bram
Read 20 minutes
vowel color write
finish flashback story

Haugen
Read 20 minutes
fact/opinion worksheet
finish flashback story

Mick
Read 20 minutes
vowel color write
finish second paragraph of  flashback story

Book orders are due tomorrow, as are cheer-leading clinic forms.

Links for La Bamba conversation today

We are reading a story called La Bamba.  The kids got to listen to the song today.  That led us to a discussion of Buddy Holly and Big Bopper. Here are the links they requested for the songs we heard today!

Buddy Holly
Big Bopper
Ritchie Valens

crash information

9-9-13

Homework for tonight:
Read 20 minutes
Jumpstart 4b

Week 4 lessons and objectives

Reading: We will be working with a new story this week, La Bamba. This story is about a lip syncing contest.  To end our unit, in a couple of weeks, we will have a lip sync contest in class.  This is a really fun activity!  The kids really enjoy it.
We took our first skills test on Friday.  We'll be correcting it on Monday.



*Story Structure
*Predicting outcomes
*Creating and reading a timeline
*Using proof from text to support answers to questions

Grammar:
* Common and proper nouns
* Abstract and concrete nouns

Vocabulary:
*La Bamba vocabulary: test on Friday
Click on the links to play some vocabulary study games
Remember to check the wiki link on the right side of the screen to get a list of your words this week
*flashcards
*game

Spelling:
* Test Thursday
* Roots spec/spect/op

Writing:
* using flashback in a story
* indenting new paragraphs
* parts of a paragraph

Book orders are due on Wednesday.  The kids have an online code if you'd like to order your books online instead of sending a check to school.

9-6-13

Homework
Picture dictionary (not Bock's group)
Jumpstart 4a
Late work and work that needs to be fixed


Book orders are due Wednesday!

9-5

I was out of the district at meetings today.  I'm not 100% sure what our guest teacher assigned the kids.  For that reason, I will not be collecting homework tomorrow.  READ 20 minutes tonight!

9-4

Homework today:
Jumpstart 3B
Read 20 minutes

I will be out of the district tomorrow for a meeting.  I will return any calls and emails after school!

9-3-13

Homework:
Grade a character (not Bock's kids)
Plural worksheet: both sides
Read 20 minutes

We will have a short assembly tomorrow morning to talk about our Bronco Pride School-wide rules!