10-9-16

I'd like to start by thanking all of you that were able to attend conferences last week.  It is really nice to speak to you all in person!  Remember, you don't have to wait for conferences to talk to me!  Call or email ANY time!  If you weren't able to make it to conferences, I'm nearly always available before school, over my lunch time, and from 3:30-4!

What's coming up this week?
RC #3 is due on the 15th.  It's a Saturday, so the kids will actually have until Monday!

Thursday I will be gone at a meeting, and Mrs. Buseman will be in my room as a substitute.

Friday we will be walking up to the Belmond museum to learn about Belmond's history during it's BIG tornado.  This fits perfectly with the Nature's Fury unit we just finished in Reading.

Friday is also picture retake day.

Tests this week:
Tuesday is our Vocabulary test over Tall tale words.
Words: hero, heroine, deed, tradition, tale, frontier, settler
https://quizlet.com/7394596/tall-tale-vocabulary-flash-cards/

Wednesday is a short quiz over Verbs.
The kids need to be able to write the being verbs: be, been, being, is, was, were, am, are
They also need to know how to put verbs into the correct tenses, and recognize verbs in a sentence

Thursday is our Spelling test over Tall tale words.
It is also the day of our end of theme test over Nature's Fury.  This isn't something that they can study for.  It is mostly using their reading skills.