Linda Fancellas

Ms. Fancellas' Buzzing News

Character Kid

Willis Thompson         Week of April 28  (Willis was elected by his class for the word, courage.)

Terrific Kid for May

Trygve Miller

Outstanding Attendance

Summer Ford and Jorden Powser  (As of today, zero absences for the entire school year!)

Presidential Fitness Award

Nichole Beck and Summer Ford

Accelerated Reading 100% Goal Achievers

Nichole Beck, Summer Ford, Kendahl Heckstall, Sharece Morton, Jordan Rivers

WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!

Congratulations to all of you!

Special Dates (see list of special activities for last week of school in this week's Busy Bee folder)

May 19                    Safety Program and Stevie B Night

May 22                    Ice Cream Sundaes (bring in your favorite topping)   Public Library Summer  Reading             

May 23                     Percussion program and Happy Summer!

                                  

Reminders

You can join the Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program and possibly earn a free book while you enjoy reading good books. More information can be found at www.bn.com/summerreading-

To receive final report card:

Please send in a legal size self adressed envelope with two stamps

Make sure all accounts such as lunch, ASP, book fines are paid.

Thanks  to/for..............

everyone for getting your child to school on time during CRCT and we had 100% attendance each day!

Mr. Beck for volunteering his time to present an outstanding program about fungi to all the second graders!

Belated thanks to all the families who sent in Boosterthon money.  If you didn't hear, our school raise

48,000 dollars.

parents who were able to attend Field Day and enjoy the activities with your child.

donations for our Nana Nature Program.

Beth Pound for helping the students make the cheerful Mother's Day cups for you to enjoy as you lounge around the pool this summer.

stuffed animals and other donations for our troops and children in Iraq.

the many aluminum tabs that keep coming in for the Ronald McDonald house.

Parent Volunteers

A very special thanks to our Room Mom, Barbara Brumback and Art/cooking Mom, Beth Pound for their help throughout the year.  Mr. and Mrs. Heckstall did an  awesome job as AR parents.  All of our parent volunteers played a vital role in making this a successful year.  Also, thanks to those who could not volunteer time but sent in many donations throughout the year.

Curriculum News

Students exhibited much growth on their final Star test and Individualized Reading Inventory. Word recognition, comprehension, and fluency scores increased a lot! It is very rewarding to all of us!  Thanks for helping your child practice the phonics patterns for their retest.  Many scored 100%.

In Math, we began time tests with mixed addition and subtraction problems.  First, we practiced with ten minutes then moved to five minutes.  This is an area for many to work on this summer.

Thanks for your support with the Bonzer Australian Animal projects.  In Australia, bonzer means terrific!  Our class enjoyed learning lots of interesting information about many unusual animals.  For some summer Australian fun, you may want to visit the Kangaroo Conservation Center in Dawsonville, GA. They have over 250 kangaroos!  Check it out at www.kangarrocenter.com or phone # 770- 265-6100.

The Cobb County Fire Department presented an excellent four day program.  They taught the students lots of information including potential life saving techniques.  Hopefully, your child shared what they learned about fire safety.

Ms. Fancellas' Buzzing News

Character Kids

Katelyn Sorg                  March 31 - April 4  The class chose Katelyn for the word, motivation.

Mackenzie  McGuire       April 21-25   Mackenzie was chosen by her class as a great example of perseverance.

Terrific Kid for April

Jorden Powser

May Birthdays 

Kendahl Heckstall     May 16

Mackenzie McGuire   May 24

Special Dates

April 25              Last day of CRCT   YEAH!!!!!!

April 25              Speaker (Mr. Beck will present a program on fungi)

April 28              Last Day to take "AR" tests.

April 30               Individualized Reading Inventory /Library Books due

May 1                  Firefighter Program and PTA

May 2                  Spirit Day and AR Rally (Everyone is welcome to come!)

                           Field trip forms due

May 2                   Talent Show (Come see Katherine, Summer, Shayln, and Katelyn perform!)

May 7                    Last WAMU Banking Day

May 8                    Math Post Test for unit 4

May 9                    Mark you calendars for Field Day  (Rain date is May 14)

May 15                   Nana Nature Program on Photosynthesis

Thanks........

to everyone who sent in extra snacks.

for helping your students prepare for the CRCT by practicing online and ensuring they came each day of testing well rested and fed.  During the test, the students were great listeners and worked very hard.  I was very proud of them.  Let's hope the test scores reflect their learning for the whole year!

to Mr. Heckstall for his diligence and volunteering time toward helping many students meet their weekly goal!

Curriculum News

Reading

Next Wednesday your child will take the IRI again.  This is an Individualized Reading Inventory.  During the Jan. conference, I shared the results of the August IRI.  The IRI consists of oral reading, comprehension, and phonics tests.  Some students will retest on the Dolch sight words too.  On Monday, I will send home the August phonics test. Since we have covered all the patterns, I hope to see a lot of growth.  Please help them prepare for this retest by practicing the words they missed in Aug.  Remember many of the words are nonsense so we get a true picture of your child's ability to decode words.  Fluency will be retested too.

Science

Our final unit is Life Cycles of plants and animals.  To introduce this unit, Mr. Beck will speak to the Second Grade about fungi.  Additionally, students will learn about the life cycles of plants in general as well as mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and amphibians.  Another special program is planned for May 15.  Students will learn about photosynthesis. This challenging concept will be taught using a "hands on approach".  Finally, we hope to receive caterpillars soon so students will get to observe first hand the life cycle of a butterfly.  They will complete an observation log to go along with the butterfly's life cycle.

Social Studies/Science

To integrate these two subjects the students chose an Australian animal to research.  In the Thursday folder sent home on April 24, you received a copy of some excellent free websites (actually they are paid by CCSD) that are safe and grade appropriate.   You also received a note explaining the guidelines for the project.  The grading rubric was on one side.  Finally, the pre-writing notes were in the same folder.  Students began their research using the Australian Animal notes in their last technology class but they need to complete them at home.  This worksheet is an outline of information they need to include in their project.  The final project can be a report, song, poem, etc. as long as all information about their animal is included.  A model or drawing of the animal is part of the project too.  Please remind  your child not to copy any information from books or websites.  When they bring their project to school, they will give an oral presentation.  In other words, they will teach the class about their animal.  They should not just read their report.  Also, they need to be able to answer questions from me or the class.  I will not ask anything that was not included in the guidelines.  Thanks for your support with this project.  The class seems very excited about it.  I hope they enjoy learning about their animal and teaching us interesting facts.  If you have any questions, please contact me.

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Special Dates

April 2                Kindergarten Registration

April 4               Spirit Day and Jump Rope For Heart (please bring old tennis shoes to recycle)

April 7 - 11         Happy Spring Break

April 23               CRCT begins

Goodbye

We are losing Jaque Castillo as a member of our class.  Best wishes to Jaque and her family who aremoving to Mexico.  We will miss her.

Reminders

Please return Boosterthon pledge money in the apprpriate envelope as soon as possible.

Many students still need pencils, pens and new folders.

Remember to take a minimum of two AR tests per week.  If you meet your annual goal, you may be the lucky winner of a new bike!

Please continue to help your child master subtraction facts.  I see progress but many still need to achieve 80% or higher on the timed tests.

Thanks................

to everyone who came to PTA.  Your children did a wonderful job!  I know you enjoyed the "catchy" pasta song.  It stayed in my head for several days.

to everyone who has turned in their money for Boosterthon pledges.

for your support regarding lunchroom behavior.  It is much better!

Curriculum News

Reading/Language Arts

We continue to work on the following skills, concepts, and strategies:

Identifying the main idea in a paragraph or story

writing a main idea in a story as well as details and an ending

Using commas and quotation marks correctly

writing in complete sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization

identifying subject and predicate in a sentence

writing a letter in correct format

identifying facts and opinions

writing a persuasive story stating an opinion with supporting reasons for the opinion

ending a persuasive story by restating your opinion with most important reason

Math

Currently we are working on three digit addition and subtraction with regrouping.  We completed multiplication last week but we will review it for the CRCT.  Practicing multiplication at home will be helpful too. They learned several strategies to solve multiplication problems such as repeated addition, drawing groups or an array and using a multiplication table.

Science/Social Studies

Our study of the solar system has been one of high interest.  Thanks to Ethan Pound for sharing his superb model of the solar system, which he made for the Science Fair.  The students have enjoyed learning many new facts!  Next week, we will go back to Social Studies and learn all about Australia.  Your child will choose an Australian animal to research and identify the life cycle.  You will receive more information about this project later.

MS. FANCELLAS' BUZZING NEWS

Character Kids

Nick Cordle   March 3-7                      Nick was chosen for sportsmanship and cooperation.

Katherine Cuellar  March 10 - 14         Civility and Courtesy were the character words.

Terrific Kid for March

Shaylyn Moon

March Birthdays

Jesse Emory       March 19

Nichole Beck        March 28

Cecelia Stewart     March 28

Happy Birthday!

Special Dates

March 14                Boosterthon Collection Envelopes Go Home

March 17                 Happy St. Patrick's Day

March 20                 Report Cards Go Home (Please return signature card and envelope)

March 21                 Boosterthon Official Collection Day

March 23                  Happy Easter

Thanks..............

Everyone who pledged money for our Boosterthon Fun  Run.  We are very close to meeting our goal.  Tomorrow is the last day to pledge so hopefully we will make it. In fact, if we make our goal, the class will earn two free visits from Molly. The Fancellas Fireballs ran and walked their hearts out on March 12.

Mr. Heckstall is helping Mrs. Heckstall as an AR parent and we look forward to having him come in on Fridays to update our class!

Reminders

Please check to see if your child needs new school supplies.  Many students are telling me they don't have pencils, pens, crayons, etc.  It is very important to be prepared each day with all of these supplies.  We use them everyday. 

Agendas should be cleaned out daily.  Please have your child give you any PTA notes or graded worksheets for the day.

As listed on the homework chart and in agendas, students need to read AR books nightly. Please use the comprehension questions that I passed out at conference time to better prepare them.  Each student needs to take a minimum of two AR tests per week.

Keep practicing subtraction math facts!

Have your child take practice CRCT tests on line.

Six Flags Six Hour Reading Club

The following students earned a free ticket to Six Flags for completing the required amount of reading:

Nichole Beck, Katherine Cuellar, Miranda Donehoo, Jordan Rivers, and Katelyn Sorg

Congratulations to all of you!

Molly Day

If you did not hear the exciting news, I am very surprised.  The class met Molly on March 4.  Molly was well behaved and your children were fabulous!  Therefore, Molly will come again as points are earned.  Currently, my class is having a difficult time behaving in the lunchroom thus earning points for another Molly visit.  They are talking too loudly and in some cases screaming.  Also, they are getting out of their seats to go back to get napkins, forks, etc.  They are suppose to get everything they need before they sit down and they are not allowed to leave their seat without the monitor's permission.  Please go over these rules with your child. I appreciate your support.

Ms. Fancellas' Buzzing News

Character Kid for the week of February 4

Chase Bates was chosen to represent the word, Initiative.

Special Dates

Feb. 29               Dr. Seuss Day ( special visitor will read to our class)

Feb. 29                Japanese art project  -  Zen Gardens

March 3                Boosterthon Kickoff

March 4                Early Release Day and Chick-fil-a Night

March 6                 Unit 3 Math Test and PTA (Second Grade will present the inspiration)

March 20           Report Cards Go Home

Thanks.......

an overdue thanks to Beth Pound for the wonderful and tasty January project.  The students made snowflakes out of flour tortillas.

to Lynn Miller for processing the February Scholastic book order.

Mrs. Heckstall for volunteering to be our new AR Mom.  She met individually with each child to discuss their reading goal.  She is in the process of updating all the points and rewards earned.

to Beth Pound and Barbara Brumback for organizing our Japanese Food Celebration and thanks to every parent who either made a cash donation or provided food or other items needed for our celebration.  I'm sure you heard all about the interesting food and fun!  Our classroom looked like a Japanese restaurant especially when the students used their chopsticks to eat.

Our menu included the following delicious items:  Jasmine rice, Teriyaki beef and chicken wings, Soben noodles, California Rolls, Samurai Mix with wasabi peas, Spring Rolls, Candy Sushi, sweet bread, rock candy, and green tea

Science Fair

First I would like to commend Trygve Miller for his entry in the Science Fair. By mistake, I omitted his name on the last blog.

Additionally we had a winner from our class.  Nichole Beck placed second at the school level and first place representing the Tom Mathis Council which includes seven schools.  Wow and Congratulations to Nichole!

CRCT News

Mark your calendars for April 23-25 and April 28-29.  These are the testing dates for Second Grade. Please schedule all appointments on a different date.  Any make-up tests are done by another teacher in a different setting.  Of course, research shows that students test best with their own teacher in their classroom environment. Thanks for your support regarding this matter. Also, you received a letter last week with your child's student ID# to go online and take practice tests.  I hope you will help your child take advantage of this opportunity to receive additional practice while using the CRCT testing format.

Curriculum News

Reading

Students are learning to identify the cause and effect as well as make inferences.  Characteristics of fiction and non-fiction was introduced this grading period.  Students continue to work on the main idea too.

Writing/ English

Persuasive writing is the main genre for the third grading period but letter writing and writing a response to literature were included too. Currently, students are listening to examples of books written in a persuasive manner then they will begin writing their own persuasive stories.  As always,good writing includes a beginning with a main idea, supporting details and an ending.

Science

Next week, we will begin a unit on stars, sun, shadows, shapes of the moon, day, night and much more.

Math

You will receive a parent letter explaining all the unit 4 skills in next week's Take Home Folder.  Multiplication is a main concept in this unit.

Enjoy your weekend and stay healthy!

Ms. Fancellas' Buzzing News

Character Kid for the Week of January 14 -18

Shaylyn Moon's class voted her to represent the word, self-confidence.

Special Dates

February 1              Spirit Day   Wear Your class t- shirt

February 4               Groundhog Extra Credit Due and Japanese Rotation Class

February 5                Author Visit      Chick - Fil - A Night

February 6                 Early Release

February 7                  PTA             Science Fair           Japanese Rotation Class

February 14                Happy Valentines Day  (students will exchange valentines)

February 18                Holiday

February 19                Teacher Workday

February 22                 Six Flags Reading Logs Due

February Birthdays

Nick Cordle  2-15

Chase Bates 2-17

Willis Thompson 2-26

Happy Birthday!

Exciting News

Nick Cordle is the proud big brother of twins Gabrielle and Steven.  They were born on January 2.  Also, Katelyn Sorg is a new big sister.  Her new sister, Aubrey, was born on January 11.

Congratulations

Science Fair/Writing Fair

Nichole Beck and Ethan Pound entered the Science Fair and Miranda Donehoo, Summer Ford, and Jordan Rivers entered the Writing Fair.

Good Luck to All of You!

Perfect Attendance

The following students had perfect attendance for the second grading period.  The * denotes perfect attendance with no tardies:

*Chase Bates   *Nichole Beck      Jaque Castillo   *Katherine Cuellar   Summer Ford   Sharece Morton

*Jorden Powser   *Jordan Rivers

Conference Week

I enjoyed meeting with each of you.  Thanks again for all your support. We need to work together (teacher, parent, and child) to ensure success. It was rewarding for me to share your child's progress.  With extra practice, weak areas will improve!  Please remember to encourage your child to read daily to improve both fluency and comprehension.  Hopefully, I will see an explosion of reading in AR as well as taking tests.  As I explained at conferences, everyone has ample time to take tests every day!

Curriculum News

Social Studies

Our Japan unit began this week and will culminate on February 22 with our Food Celebration.  This is a very high interest unit for second graders.  The main focus is comparing life in Japan to USA.  Some of the areas we will discuss are the Japanese tea ceremony, clothing, food, schools, ikebana, location, land forms  of the country and much more. Although comparing Japan to USA is a Georgia Performance Standard in Social Studies, students will read fiction and non-fiction books about Japan and write about Japan in friendly letter form to their book buddies.

If you are contacted by room moms, please help out with donations for our food celebration.  A note in the Thursday folder went home today.  The students are already looking forward to it.

Math

When helping your child, please refer to the unit 3 parent letter, which I sent home at the beginning of the unit..  Many students need extra practice counting change back from $1.00 to $5.00 and other skills in this unit.  I feel sure this will be on the CRCT, too.

Keep practicing subtraction facts!

Ms. Fancellas' Buzzing News

Character Kid  - Week of January 8

Sharece Morton  - Humility

Terrific kid for January

Kendahl Heckstall

Special Dates

January 19                            Special cooking/art project

January 21                            Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

January 22 -25                      Conference Week/Book Fair

January 28                             Conference Day

Reminders

During conference week, students are released at 12:25.

Lunch/brunch will be 10:08 - 10:38.

Students will not need a snack due to early lunch and release.

Normal schedule will resume on Tuesday, January 29.

Please return conference forms as soon as possible.

Please be on time for your conference because they are scheduled back to back.

If anyone is interested in being a mystery reader, please send me a note.

Thanks........

to Barbara Brumback for organizing our terrific holiday party.  The food, homemade lemonade, treat bags, etc. were a hit!

to Mrs. Sewall for the treat bags and rounding up the shopping bags for the students to take home their holiday items.

to everyone who made any kind of donation for our party from yummy food to paper products.

to all the parents who were able to come to the party.  Children love having their parents visit their classroom.

Curriculum News

Math

Our first skill is recognizing and writing fractions.  The website, http://www.cobbk12.org/~resources/math/number_operations.htm

has a great section on fractions.

Social Studies

Students are comparing life in Jamestown 1609 to life today.  We are reading a book, A Strange New Land and making self to text connections in a writing journal format.

Help Wanted

Due to circumstances involving work and school schedules, Mrs. Ford had to relinquish her position as "AR" mom.  I need to recruit another volunteer as soon as possible. If interested, please let me know.  It involves coming in once every two weeks to update  student's progress.  Thanks to Mrs. Ford for your prior commitment.

Happy New Year and I look forward to meeting with during conference week and sharing your child's progress in Second Grade.

Ms. Fancellas' Buzzing News

Character Kids

November 26 - 30     Trygve Miller - Service

December 17 - 21     Jaque Castillo - Generosity   

Terrific Kid for December

Jordan Rivers

Special Dates

December 18                 Book Buddies

December 20                  Annual Holiday Sing - a- long

December 21                  Holiday Party (9:00 - 10:00)

Dec. 24 - January 7         Winter Holidays

January 8                        Parent Conference letters go home

January 11                      Spirit Day and Report Cards

January 21                        MLK Holiday

January 22 - 25 and 28       Parent Conferences

Reminders

As I just mentioned in special dates, parent conferences are scheduled for January.  Teachers will work on the schedule on January 7.  Therefore, if you have a particular day you would like to request, please notify me this week.  Once the schedule is made, it is difficult to make changes, especially, if you have more than one student at Still.  Please keep in mind that I have 19 conferences to schedule.

Yes, it is true.  There is no homework for theweek of December 17, other than reading and practicing subtraction facts.

With the flu and cold season upon us, the computer Lab is in need of kleenex and hand sanitizer.  Any donations will be greatly appreciated.

Students need to take a minimum of two AR tests per week.  At all times, I have a variety of AR reading level books in the classroom.

Thanks.........

to everyone who donated items for Calvary Children's Home and the Star Tree.

for all the wonderful donations for our holiday party.  Hope to see you there!

Ms. Brumback for the awesome holiday ornaments!  I know  you will  enjoy them for many years!

Curriculum News

Math

Please keep practicing subtraction math facts.  I see some slow but steady improvement.   

Unit 3 will begin on January 8.  You will receive a parent letter with unit 3 skills in the first Thursday Busy Bee folder for January.

Reading

Please encourage your child to read a balance of fiction and nonfiction books.  During this grading period, our focus has been on nonfiction reading.  I have noticed some difficulty with comprehension of nonfiction books.  Due to the advanced vocabulary, nonfiction books should be read three to four times to ensure accuracy.  Additionally, I have noticed a drop in fluency with nonfiction reading.  I will discuss this in more detail at parent conferences.

Spelling

After the holidays, I will use a new format for the weekly spelling test.  The words will be presented in sentence form. I will dictate approximately five sentences, which will be evaluated for spelling, english, and handwriting.      

Hope all of you have a blessed Christmas and year to come.  Enjoy your holidays and I look forward to meeting with everyone in January.         

Fancellas' Buzzing News

Special Dates

Grandparent Interviews Due       November 30   

Scholastic Book Fair                     December 3 - 7   ( 2pm - 6pm)

December 6                                 High Touch  High Tech Program  ( wear class t-shirts)

December 11                                PTA Science Night  (6:30 PM)

December 14                                Christmas Ornaments with Room Moms

December 21                                 Holiday Party   (9:00 - 10:00)

Reminders

Please label items such as lunchboxes, coats, etc. with first and last names. This makes it much easier to return lost items to the right student.

Check with your child to see if they need any supplies replenished.  Since August, we have gone through a lot of pens, pencils, crayons, etc.

If your child brings a thumbdrive to use in the computer lab, please make sure it is attached to a cord to hang around their neck.  Also, their name should be written with a permanent marker. 

We are in need of  a parent volunteer for the computer lab on Mondays from 7:15 to 7:45.  If available and interested, please let me know right away. Your duties would include logging in on each computer and supervising students while they take AR tests.

Thanks...........

to families who sent in baked goods for the Fall Festival.

Mrs. Miller for processing the November Scholastic book order.

Mrs. Brumback for the Native American art project.

Congratulations!!!!

Our class had several winners at the cake walk.  Lucky winners were:  Jaque Castillo, Nick Cordle, Summer Ford, Trygve Miller, and Katelyn Sorg.

Additionally, we had two Fall basket winners. Nichole Beck won the ice cream basket and if you did not hear the big news, Barbara Brumback was the winner of our awesome class basket! As Aesop taught us, hard work and perseverance bring reward.  Once again, thanks to everyone who made a donation to the basket.

Holiday Service Project

As teachers, we strive to provide our students with experiences on many levels.  In lieu of a gift/book exchange, we would like to reinforce our Character Education program through a real life connection.  Our students have an opportunity to demonstrate their generosity, kindness, and service to others by donating items to Calvary Children's Home.  Please do not wrap the items.  Inside today's folder, you will find a list of school supplies that are needed by children of all ages who live at Calvary Children's Home.  Thanks so much for your support and making the holiday season brighter for so many children.

Curriculum News

Math

Check out the following website for math practice.  It is a wonderful resource for practicing math facts to prepare for timed tests.  First, go to Mixed Operations then click on Mathflash.  Your child can use the timer and choose different ability levels.

                   http://www.cobbk12.org/~resources/math/number_operations.htm 

Language Arts

In narrative writing, students learned that good writers use powerful verbs and a variety of adjectives so their writing leaves a picture in the reader's mind or a memory in their heart.  We reviewed juicy color words as good choices for adjectives. Also, students were introduced to the dictionary and thesaurus as a resource tool.

Next, we will begin informational writing to go along with non-fiction reading.  I will introduce this with the grandparent interview.  The interview is pre-writing for a story about one grandparent.  The information from the interview will be written in paragraph form.  I look forward to the student's sharing these stories.

Social Studies

After completing our unit on Plains and Eastern Woodland Native Americans, we began comparing and contrasting our community to Plymouth.

Technology News

Ms. Messini and Ms. Kitty are working on research skills in the computer lab and media center.  Students are learning a variety of ways to access information  to use in their informational writing.

Happy Birthday !

Jaque Castillo    December 7

Shayln Moon       December 16

Sharece Morton   December 20

 

Ms. Fancellas' Buzzing News

Character Kid   -  November 7

Ethan Pound was chosen as character Kid by his class for the words, School Pride and Cleanliness.

Terrific Kid for November

Miranda Donehoo

Special Dates

November 8     High Touch High Tech permission forms and donations due

                       Chili Cook-off and PTA

November 9        Veteran's Breakfast and Fall Festival

                           Scholastic Book Orders Due

November 16        Native American art project with Room Moms

November 19        Book Buddies

November 20         Grandparent's Day for Second Grade

November 21 - 25    Happy Thanksgiving holidays

Reminders

Please return the High Touch High Tech permission forms and donations as soon as possible.  Although students participated in this program last year, it was not the same topic.  Forces In Motion is a second grade Georgia Performance Standard.  In the past, students have enjoyed the programs because they are very high interest topics with lots of active involvement.

All of the second grade standards are available for you to preview on www.cobbk12.org  look for Picasso.  Next, click on subject area then grade level.

Mrs. Messini, our computer lab teacher, is in need of hand sanitizer donations.

Yearbooks are on sale now.  After the winter break, the price goes up.  No orders are accepted after March 1.

Please return reservations for Grandparent's Day as soon as possible.  Our lunchroom manager needs to know how much food to order.

Thanks...........

to Barbara Brumback for an outstanding job putting together our "Sports basket/grill/cooler."  It is awesome!!  Also, another thanks to all the families from our class who made a donation which resulted in such an awesome basket.  Now, maybe one of us will be a lucky winner!

to Barbara Brumback again and Beth Pound for our special Fall art projects.  The students enjoyed painting pumpkins and decorating cookies.

Curriculum News

Math

Many students need extra help with subtraction regrouping.  Please continue to check daily work and homework.  As I stated before, children,who do not know their addition and subtraction facts, are at a disadvantage because it takes them longer to complete their work.  I still see a lot of students using their fingers.  Please encourage them to use their hundreds chart (they should have one in their agenda) instead of fingers and of course, practice, practice, practice!

Technology News

A great website for math practice is www.mathfactcafe.com/

Accelerated Reader News

On the last report sent home, I noticed several students are reading books and taking tests out of their reading range.  Please check the book level before your child takes a test.  Taking a test out of the reading range generally effects their accuracy in a negative manner Thanks for your support with this matter.