Monday, May 4, 2015

May 4-May 8

Happy May 4th!

NEWS!

This week we will be Galileo testing beginning Tuesday. It is our last bunch of tests, hooray! Please help your children be ready by getting a good nights sleep and having a good breakfast. There are a lot of tests the next few weeks including monthly spelling and phonogram tests. I will also be administering the Dibels reading test this week and next. So, with all of this testing going on I am not going to give a spelling test or list this week. We will be concentrating on learning vocabulary words and spelling for our research projects. Speaking of research projects.......

We had so much fun at the library! Thank you to my chaperons who were a HUGE help! Trust me I know sitting in the library helping kids find resource books and fill out note cards is less than fun. I appreciate you SO much! Plus, I know how tricky it is because I had a group of students too. The kids were SO well behaved and I was beaming with pride. I would say it was a success!

There will be homework this week it will mostly be research report and math related. Please note each student is assigned a visual aid for their research paper. They can work on this in class if it is a poster or picture. However, other than that it will need to be completed at home. I would like them to be working on their visual aid this week for homework. We will be completing most of the writing in class, I will be modeling how to write the essay. We will be writing a portion each day. The only other part they will need your help with is editing the rough draft. I sort of despise "projects" for homework so I want most of the work to be completed in school. I know you have a lot of things to accomplish at home as well!! :) 

Friday is our WAFFLE PARTY and Princess Bride movie. The movie is rated PG. A permission slip was sent home last week with a waffle topping/paper product sign up. I only assigned items to students who volunteered to bring something in. If you have a topping your family loves please bring it! If not we have plenty! Students will not be permitted to eat waffles or watch the movie if they do not have permission from you. I handed out extra permission slips today. They are due no later than Thursday. This is a party to celebrate the END of state and Galileo testing! What an amazing, smart, hard working group of kids we have! I just love them. 

Have a wonderful week! 

Ms. Tidwell






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