Food for Thought

A note from me; followed by this week's planner (Sept. 27- Oct. 1) We are close to completing the first nine-weeks of school. Grades will be cut off Oct. 8, and report cards will go home soon after fall break. I'm carefully watching the progression of my students. The majority of the class are steadily progressing, but there are few that have not made significant improvement. I will be calling for conferences for those students and parents to come in to see me, and let's try some different strategies; maybe for studying/target those areas of weakness that need more attention. Everyone learns at different rates, but we all need to make improvement. If I ever see a student stall out or seem to flat-line, (where they are not making any improvement or are regressing), look for me to call you and set up a meeting. We need to stay current on your child's progress.

Talk with your children, and ask them if they are getting additional help from other teachers at school. Some children are getting pulled out by our reading and math Title teachers, for V-Math, gifted/other specific needs. We have in place a Problem-Solving Team that focuses on students that are not making the progress that they should be. This team works with teachers giving them suggestions and different strategies to help struggling students.

This week's plans-
Math
Mon.- Continue probability and graphing ordered pairs
Tues.- Review for test of Wednesday (ordered pairs/probability)
Wed.- (Test)They will have to label-x/y axis, quadrants, and plot points
Thurs.-Rounding pp. 20-21
Fri.- Fact Fluency Test on (Multiples of 3) Review Thursday's lesson.


Reading
Unit 2/Week 2: Coyote School News
Day 1-* (RP)-Reading Practice Book pages (63-64) & Lang. Worksheet on Regular and Plural Nouns, (SPB)Spelling Practice Book p.25
Day 2-(RSP) pp. 65-66, SP-p.26
Day 3-(RSP) pp. 67, SP-p. 27-28
Day 4-Spelling and Language Test on Regular/Plural Nouns & (RPB) pp.68-70
Day 5-Reading Test (Turn in station work-10% of Reading grade- This is done in class).
**Daily-study spelling words, vocabulary words from story, read 15 minutes each night, record reading in Reading Logs-(10% of Reading grade)

Unit 2/Week 2 Spelling words: videos, teeth, potatoes, themselves, lives, leaves, cliffs, roofs, halves, moose, radios, sheep, cuffs, beliefs, patios, banjos, tornadoes, tomatoes, hoofs, loaves, portfolios, embargoes, handkerchiefs, calves, lassoes

Voc. Words to Know:dudes, roundup spurs, bawling, coyote

AL History- Finishing up our study on the 5 Regions of AL and the Early Indian inhabitants of AL starting with the Paleo Indians believed to have come across from Asia to North America by way of an ice bridge that stretched across the Bering Straits. Next came the Archaic, the Woodland, and last, the Mississippian. Students should be able to tell about each region and group of Indians for the test; natural resources that each had or used. The regions are found on page 5 in Chapter One.
Also, students should be able to tell about the different groups of Indian's shelter, food, tools, if they were hunters, gatherers, or farmers, anything that they've learned about in regards to how they buried their dead, any religious beliefs, or governing practices like, did they have an equal society, leaders in the community, etc... I think we should be ready for a test by Wednesday. Make sure to study the vocabulary words from Chapter One, study guide and foldable that your child has completed. If you do study with them, and sign their study guides, your child will get an additional 5 points toward their test score.

Science-We are finishing up on our Sound Unit in AMSTI.
*All sound projects are due on Sept. 30. We will be presenting them on that day.

Music- Students have homework from Mrs. Sisco (practicing their recorders; using their music books).
I hope this helps you at home, if your student has not been faithful to record their homework in their planners. I have a planner on my whiteboard where I list class work assignments. I also remind students at the end of the day what to take home. Maybe you can start some type of reward system at home to help your child become more responsible for filling out their planners each week. I post my weekly plans up on my board every Monday. We might add to or make changes if need be throughout the week, if for instance, we had an assembly or fire drill, and we need to postpone til the next day. Otherwise, this is my plans for the week.

Good day,
Theresa Wade