Punctuation Campground

practice your punctuation!!

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/punctuation/

Where is Miss Bryant?!?!?!

Ahoy mateys.

Hopefully I will be back at school on Tuesday.  Despite my best efforts to sanitize and disinfect every inch of the world that I come in contact with, I have managed to pick up the bug that is going around our school. I have been home and in bed sick since Thursday.  Today I'm feeling a bit better, and hopefully I'll be well enough to join you tomorrow!! Remember that conferences are Wednesday evening 4-8pm and Thursday from 12-8pm.

We'll be goal setting all day Wednesday for our conferences.

See you soon!!!

This week in Core

This week in Core we have 3 main objectives:

1. finish and present Create a Country
2. Learn, use, love and enjoy our Autumn vocabulary words.
3. Turn our reading log in on time (FRIDAY) 

May the force be with you!

Don't forget to dress WACKY TACKY on Friday!!! woo-hoo!!

-Miss Bryant

pumpkin carving

carve your own pumpkin

from time to time I run across some pretty cool links...from now on, I'm going to start posting them here on the classroom blog. Check 'em out!

Strange Maps:
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

This Week in Core: October 12 - October 16

Language Arts: 

• New spelling words for the week: evidence, agent, mission, continent, headquarters, produce, broken, exercise, employer, resigning, sundae, treacherous
• Spelling sort it will be done on Thursday, and the Spelling test will be on Friday
• Detective profiles were due this week
• Reading log is due on Friday
• 8 Sentence paragraph writing practice will take place on Wednesday & Thursday

Social Studies:

• Create a Country checklist was assigned and due on Monday
• Create a Country rough draft is due on Thursday
• Create a Country final draft work time begins on Thursday, continues Friday, and into next week.
• Create a Country is due on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 

Have a great week! 

Greetings!

I apologize for not updating last week.

Here is what we've been up to in core:

1. Spelling: first spelling list and test of the year happened last week. Remember that in order to be a "super speller" and earn that cat cash that students need to spell the required words and the challenge words correctly!

2. Landforms: this week we focused on landforms in Social Studies.  Students took landform notes, played a landform match game, and landform bingo.  Today in class students took the landform quiz. **Remember that quizzes can be taken a second time for additional credit by appointment only.

3. Homophones: Also this week, students completed many homophone activities. We also watched THIS VIDEO which while cheesy, is a student favorite!

4. B.A.R.F. (Book Analysis and Reflection Form) is due on October 15th!

5. Students visited the library today to check out a mystery or adventure book.  This book must be at their level, at least 150 pages and finished by November 12th.

6. Reading Log: this week's reading log will be collected on MONDAY OCTOBER 12th

7. Detectives! This week students discussed adjectives and created detectives who will work for the Darth Tater Agency all year.

Wash those hands!

Wash those hands VIDEO