Miss O.’s Monday Memo: November 10, 2014
Reading
· Scholastic News
· VA Studies newspaper research quiz
· Context Clues review
· Reader’s Theater
· Sandwich book report project (due Friday) on a fictional chapter book
Math
· Students MUST memorize their multiplication facts this week and next week! THIS IS A MUST!
· Meanings of multiplication
· Array project
· Multiplication patterns
· Properties of multiplication
Writing: Word Study Test on Friday
· Using quotation marks during dialog
· Revising and editing spooky stories
· Writing final drafts of spooky stories
· Drafting: “Day in the Life of a Native American”
VA Studies: Native American UNIT Test (a week from this Wednesday)
· Native Americans of Virginia languages
· Native American foods, clothing, shelter
· Eastern Woodland Indians
Reminders and important dates:
1. A HUGE THANK YOU TO MRS. WAJSGRAS and MRS. ROSSITER for organizing our Halloween Party!
2. Report cards go home this Wednesday, November 12th. Please return the envelope and the signature slip the next day.
3. The Book Fair is next week. Parents are invited to come meet our class in the library on Wednesday, November 19th, at 8:15am to purchase books. Or you can just send in money with your child that day. It will also be open right before our show from 5:30-7 that night.
4. Parents are also invited to our musical Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 and then at 7:00 that evening. All students are expected to be present for both shows.
5. Attention Parents! If you are willing to help paint scenery for the “American Revolution” on Wednesday, November 12th, 2014 at 3:00pm, please contact Mrs. Padworski . Our fabulous art teacher, Ms. Hanlon, has created the outline; all we need to do is paint!Thank you!!
6. Please let me know in advance if your child will be absent from school around the Thanksgiving or winter holidays this year. I cannot send home work in advance, but we can make sure all tests and quizzes are taken before he or she leaves.