Hurricane Safety Officer Project

I am so very impressed with the effort that your children put into the project that I sent home! The results were awesome and they did great when presenting! Their grades are posted and I am sure you will be pleased!!! Thank you for helping them to follow directions and create a successful poster!

Mrs. Morrow

HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK

- No reading log for this week.

- Social Studies Project Due on November 4th

- Three math sheets

- Study for Chapter 1 Social Studies test. This will be on Friday, November 5th

What are we learning?

I am sure this is a burning question on all of your minds, and if your kiddos are anything like my eight year old third grader, the typical answer you get is, "I forgot!" I am hoping to be able to stay on top of my blog and post weekly what we are doing in class. Here is what is going on next week!

MATH:

Problem Solving

Spiral Review

Compatible Numbers 

Adding and Subtracting Decimals

Perimeter???

(possibly-depending on how adding and subtracting of decimals goes!)

SCIENCE:

Continuing on with energy:

Focusing on Sound Energy

 ELA:

Spelling-syllables, identifying long and short 

vowels, frequent spelling pattern of /k/ 

SPELLING TEST ON THURSDAY! 

 Writing- continuing on with the writing process. 

Working on the composition: My teacher is a witch!

Grammar- Sentence punctuation, Sentences Mixed Review,

Complete Predicate and Complete Subject

Reading- Summarizing, plot understanding, characterization,

cause and effect.

SOCIAL STUDIES

On Monday, November 1, 2010, I will be sending home a

take home social studies project. It will be due on Thursday, November 4, 2010.

Please feel free to assist your child, but please make sure that they do

a majority of it on their own!  I want to see what they are capable of

accomplishing!

WE WILL HAVE A CHAPTER ONE TEST ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010. I WILL SEND HOME THE BOOK NIGHTLY. PLEASE MAKE SURE IT COMES BACK EVERYDAY!!! THE TEST WILL BE OPEN BOOK!

In class, we will be reading Chapter 2, The People of Texas, 

Lessons 1 and Lesson 2.

As I said above, I will do my best to update this weekly and let you know what we are up too! We will probably have a math assessment on Unit 2 not this upcoming week, but the week after. We are super busy all the time, please make sure your kiddos are coming to school everyday!

Mrs. Morrow

Desperate Need!

First of all, A HUGE THANKS, to the parents who sent in pencils and glue sticks! That was such a huge help! I truly do appreciate any help I can get when it comes to the kiddos. With that being said...we are in desperate need of composition books! Can you believe that in the first 9 weeks we almost went through a whole composition book in science AND math??!! We are definitely hard at work! If you could even pick up one for us, that would be a huge help! I hope you know how much I appreciate all of your support!

Mrs. Morrow

Report Cards

Now that report cards have gone home and you have had a chance to look at them, please feel free to call me to set up a conference if you have any concerns. Also, I am not sure how it works, but I do know you can look up grades using the Home Access Center, https://esphac.killeenisd.org/homeaccess/. You should have received a login and password in the mail. If you did not receive this information in the mail, please contact the front office at 254-336-6660. I will do my very best to post grades at the end of each week. Please check your students grades often. This way, you can call me if you are concerned about a specific grade. Also, please remember that the only work I will send home are assessments. Your child's work will be kept in their composition books here in class. I am trying to create portfolios for your children of all the work they are that way they can also use the composition books to refer back to if they forget a concept. 

Please call me if you have any questions!

Mrs. Morrow

DON'T FORGET EARLY OUT ON FRIDAY!!!

DON'T FORGET!!!! 

EARLY OUT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2010

RELEASE AT 1:45!!!

WISHLIST!!!

I am going to beg...we are in need of some supplies! I normally would not ask, as I buy most supplies that the kiddos need for the classroom, but there is so much that we are in need of any help would be appreciated!! Here are some things that we need:

138 Composition books

Glue sticks, glue sticks, and more glue sticks!

Pencils!!!

Scissors (just kid size scissors)

Colored paper (not card stock, but printer quality colored paper. We use this for our foldables!)

Tape (for our tape dispensers)

Hand Sanitizer (Purell if possible)

Thank you so much. If you can help us out...we would greatly appreciate it!!

Mrs. Morrow

Wednesday Folder

Hello parents! It's Wednesday and that means that those green folders will be coming home today! In those folders will be the Place Value math assessments that have been taken and graded. If your child did not score over a 70, they were given the opportunity to redo the questions that they missed. I took the average from the original score and the score after the corrections to come up with a new grade. If you have any questions about your child's grade, please text me, email me or call me!

Chat soon!

Mrs. Morrow

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THIS MONTH!

October 19            School Pictures- Look your best!

October 22            End of the first nine weeks/Early out 1:45

October 25            Start of the second nine weeks
(can you believe it??!! Time flies when you are having fun!)  

October 27            Report Cards come home in Wednesday Folders!

Blah...

I guess too much fun this weekend and that flu bug going around finally got me! So sorry that I missed today and I hope that your kiddos came home with their homework packet today. There will be one more page (front and back) sent home tomorrow that will need to be completed by Friday as well. I did not send home reading logs today, but they will be coming home tomorrow as well. Please make sure that your child does read this evening for 20 minutes! I am hoping that I can shake whatever I have and be back in the classroom tomorrow.

Any questions or concerns...do not hesitate to call, text, or email!

Mrs. Morrow

Earning Points

As you know, your child has the opportunity to earn 25 points a week, which breaks down to 5 points a day. There are five blocks during the school day in which your child may earn a point. First block: 0825-1000, Second Block: 1000-1115, Third Block: 1115-105, Fourth Block: 105-240, and Fifth Block: 240-325. If you child has to be redirected at any of these times, they may not earn their block point. At the end of ever month, we will have a block party. The students must earn a certain number of points each month to attend the block party. I will not reveal to the students how many points because I want them working hard everyday, not just hard enough to earn enough points for the block party. I will or your child will write the number of points that they earn each day into their planner. In the classroom, each child has a folder with sheets in it for every week of the month. They mark down happy faces when they earn their points and when they do not earn their point, I will write the reason why they did not earn the point. I will send home these sheets at the end of every month. Due to the fact that I have started these folders, there will no longer be a sheet for you to sign in the Wednesday folder.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me!

Mrs. Morrow

Homework for the week of October 11

Your child will be coming home with a packet of work tomorrow. This packet is due on Friday. Your child may finish the work however they would like (all in one day or throughout the week), but please have them only return it on Friday! This packet is in addition to the home reading log and practicing their multiplication (at least 10 minutes a night please!). The HRL is 20 minutes of reading (20 minutes is the minimum please) and a summary. Please remind your child that a summary is not one sentence. A summary for the HRL is 4-5 sentences.

Also, please check planners daily and sign both the planner and HRL. This just lets me know that you are looking at your childs planner!

Thanks so much for all the support. Please do not hesitate to call, write a note, text, schedule a conference, etc. if you have ANY questions or concerns! I am enjoying your children and excited to watch them grow!

Mrs. Morrow

YES THERE IS!!!

The big question floating around out there in Killeen right now is, "Is there school tomorrow?" I am here to tell you that....YES THERE IS!! School times are all the same tomorrow! See you in the A.M.!!

Mrs. Morow

Welcome to our blog!

I decided that this would be a great way for you to see what is going on in your child's classroom! I am going to try and update it everyday or as needed with new information. Please check it often and put it into your favorites! I will send out text messages whenever I update it. Please feel free to text, call, email, or send a note if you have any questions and/or concerns!

Mrs. Morrow