Week of September 20 - 27

Kindness Month

"Kindness" month is almost over but let's hope kindness isn't. We have had an action packed week. This week each class had a guest reader come in, share a book on kindness, and have a discussion about the book and how it pertains to kindness. Carson was our class ambassador this week and was in charge of getting our reader to and from our classroom. Our reader was Ms. Heather, from our Later Gators program. She read one of my favorite books, Each Kindness. It's an awesome book and reinforces the importance of being kind and losing the moment. We may only get that one chance to do the right thing. If you haven't read it before, I have linked a video of a teacher reading it so you have a chance to enjoy this awesome story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bsdoZQA8OU
Thank you to Mrs. Bodrick and Mrs. Henrich for the donation of school supplies to the classroom!!

Also, green folders came home today with graded papers and your child's self-reflection.Please be sure to go over this with them and see how their week has gone. This reflection needs to signed and returned. The folders also included, a permission slip for our upcoming field trip, my schedule, and a paper for you to write your little superhero a note. This is only if you missed Orientation night. If you were there, you already have all of these items. The students whose parents were there wrote a letter to their child and the students have the letters in the covers of their binders. Please take the time to write a letter if you missed orientation. I told the kids this letter could serve multiple purposes. It can even be a pick-me-up on those days that ends up being "just one of THOSE days". Green folders, signed graded papers, and signed reflection sheets should come back to school on Monday. I use these grades on numerous occasions, as the foundation for my small groups. Lastly, we did not take our math quiz today. I was at a science workshop and by the time we got back, it was too chaotic to even think about giving a quiz. They will take it on Monday. 

Class News

Remember a good resource is Google Classroom. It will have resources, notes, and videos relating to our class content. The student must log onto Google, sign into Google email using their Richland 2 email and password. All technology should link except Zearn.

Math

We will continue to work on the distributive but will move into Topic D with Lessons 11-14. A newsletter about this Topic is attached. The quiz for the distributive property will be Monday the 23rd, and Friday the 27th, we will take a quiz on lessons 11-14.

Module 1, Topic D Newsletter

Reading

We will continue to work on prefixes, suffixes, and synonyms as well as folktales. Our story will be Stone Soup. We are also continue with our writing. I will start conferencing with students next week and giving our their reading lexiles. I started to send them home, but I really want to meet with them first so we can discuss their individual MAP goals.

Finally, next week, the superhero bags will start coming home. This will be a little mini-writing project for the students. About once every 3 weeks, they will bring a superhero bag home. I have a few requests when the bag comes home:

1) Allow the child to write. This is for them and to give them more practice in writing which will lead to them feeling more comfortable about writing.

2) Please remind them to take care of our class superheroes. I already have one with a broken arm because someone allowed their dog to play with it.

3) Follow the rubric. 

4) If you have any superheroes you are willing to donate, we will definitely add them to our writing mascots.

Superhero Writing Rubric

Day	Task (Be sure to turn in your rough draft.)	Points Available	Point Earned
Entry 1 – Written from your point of view	Complete sentences	2
	At least 3-5 sentences	2
	Capitalization is correct (sentence and proper nouns)	2
	Spelling (phonetically correct)	1
	Grammar is correct	1
Entry 2 – Written from the Superhero’s point of view	Complete sentences	2
	At least 3-5 sentences	2
	Capitalization is correct (sentence and proper nouns)	2
	Spelling (phonetically correct)	1
	Grammar is correct	1
Picture(s)		2
Turned in on time		2
Took care of Superhero		5
Final Grade		25

Social Studies

Begin the 6 regions of South Carolina. They will have to identify the difference between human and physical features as well as explain population distribution. Our first region will be the Blue Ridge region. Then Piedmont, Sandhills, Inner and Outer Coastal Plains, and the Coastal Zone.

Regions Studystack

Regions Quizlet

Science

Finish grasslands this week. Test on grasslands October 1.

Grasslands studystack