Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

We have had a great week with a lot of visitors.  We have had people from Aslin as well as Marshall Public Schools come to see all the fabulous things our Team Moss kids are doing.  They all had such positive things to say about the students!

If your student will not be here next week due to traveling or Thanksgiving, please let us know so we can let the office know.

Friday Folders

• In your student's Friday folder is information about our next Fundations Unit.  
• There also is the HomeLinks for this unit in math.  We are only about half way through the unit, but since we aren't sending Friday folders next week, we decided to send it home this week.

Important Upcoming Events

• No Friday Folders or Blog next week.
• No School: Wednesday, November 27-29 (Thanksgiving Break)
• Planetarium Field Trip: Tuesday, December 10 (9:15-10:45 a.m.)
• No permission slip needed as the field trip is in town.
• Colonial Day: Thursday, December 12
• If you would like to help out at Colonial Day or send in supplies, please use the Sign Up Genius below.
• https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45aca62ca2fb6-colonial1
• Winter Party: Friday, December 20 at 1:45 p.m.
• Winter Break: Monday, December 23-January 3
• We return to school on Monday, January 6, 2020

Learning Next Two Weeks
Reading

• Our next reading unit is Narrative Nonfiction.  This genre includes stories about a real person or people.  They include beginning, middle and end. It might include text features, such as photos and captions.  
• We will discuss the different between nonfiction and narrative nonfiction and how narrative nonfiction is written more as a story as opposed to strictly facts.  

Writing

• Next week, we will be publishing our poems.  The students have worked really hard on their poems.  
• Our next writing assignment will be personal narrative.  This will be a true story about something that has happened in their life.  

Math

• Next week, we will be wrapping up our study of place value, expanded form/notation and place value blocks.  We have learned to represent numbers with place value blocks and in expanded form.  You can give your student a 3 digit number and have them draw it in place value blocks and write it in expanded notation.
• The week after Thanksgiving, we will move into measurement.  We will learn to measure in inches and centimeters.  
• We plan to test the 2nd week of December.  

Fundations

• We will continue to learning about when a word ends with an "e" that the vowel is a long vowel sound.
• Our trick words are knew, know, animal, many, they, right, place, together.

Social Studies

• The students will continue to work on identify similarities and differences between our lives and those of colonial people.
• They started a Colonial Journal this week.  They are writing it from the point of view of a colonial child.  Be sure to ask them what their colonial name is and how they think life is different in colonial time.
• We will have Colonial Day on Thursday, December 12.  If you would like to sign up to help or send in supplies, please use the Sign Up Genius.
• https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45aca62ca2fb6-colonial1

Have a fabulous weekend!

Happy Thursday!

Happy Thursday!

Thank you to everyone for coming in for conferences.  We really enjoy getting the opportunity to meet with everyone and discuss your student's progress!

Important Upcoming Events

• No School: Friday, November 15 
• TRYPS Field Trip: November 19
• We will leave around 8:45 a.m.
• We should return to school around 11:00 a.m.
• We will be eating lunch at 11:30 a.m. this day to make sure we are back in time to eat lunch.
• Pajama Day (RBE Spirit Day): November 22
• Library Check Out:  November 25 (including this because it's not our typical Friday checkout)
• Thanksgiving Break: Wednesday, November 27-29
• Early Dismiss: December 4 at 12:10 p.m.
• Planetarium: December 10
• We will be gone from approximately 9:15-10:45 a.m.
• Colonial Day: December 12 in the morning
• Holiday Dress Up Day (RBE Spirit Day): December 13
• Holiday Party: December 20 at 1:45 p.m.
• Winter Break: December 23-January 3 (Return to school January 6)

Next Week's Learning
Reading

• Next week, we will start our next genre study.  The genre study will be over poetry.
• We will be looking at the characteristics of poetry.
• Written in lines instead of paragraphs
• Expresses the poet’s thoughts or feelings using rich language
• May use rhymes or strong rhythm
• Often written in groups of lines called stanzas
• Poetry is a great way to practice fluency also.  It will be fun to see the student's expression come out as they are reading.

Math

• We started Unit 4 this week.  This unit covers time, measurement and place value.
• This week, we worked on telling time.  Please practice this with students.  We practiced telling time to the nearest 5 minutes and also using A.M. and P.M. when telling time.
• Next week, we will focus on place value and representing numbers using place value blocks.  We will also be learning about expanded notation which is representing a number as an addition sentence (54 = 50 + 4).  

Social Studies

• We will continue to study colonial times.  The students will be creating a Colonial Journal and pretending they are writing as a child during colonial times.  
• We will be having Colonial Day on December 12.  We will send home additional information closer to the date.  This will be in the morning and we will be asking for volunteers to help and some supplies to be donated.  Be on the look out for information in the coming weeks!

Grammar

• We will continue learning about nouns next week.  They will be learning about possessive nouns next week and how to use apostrophes.  
• A common misconception is that any time they add an "s" to a word, they put an apostrophe with it, so we will be discussing when and where to use apostrophes with words.  

Fundations

• We will be starting Unit 6 in Fundations next week.  This unit covers CVCe words so we will be introducing the long vowel sounds.  We will be discussing how you don't hear the "e," but that it makes the vowel a long vowel, so it says its name.  
• Our trick words will be only, house, move, who, how. 

Have a fabulous weekend!

Happy Food Filled Friday!

Wow!  We had a very food filled and fun filled day!  We had 2 birthdays and our pizza party!

A huge thank you to parents for donating the pizza money at the beginning of the year and for parents who send in sides and desserts.  The kids really enjoyed our pizza party!

Math Tests
The kids rocked their math review yesterday so we moved up our math test to today.  We will be copying some of their explanations from the review and then will send them home next week.  We will share the tests with you at conferences next week. If we already met with you, we will send it home on Monday.  If it is sent home, please let us know that you have seen it (either via email or signing and returning it).

Progress Reports
Progress reports are coming home today.   You do not need to sign and return them.  Please look over them with your student.  We tried to give very detailed comments about where your student is at right now.

Important Upcoming Events

• Veteran's Day Assembly: Monday, November 11
• Our assembly is at 8:30 a.m.
• Students are encouraged to wear red, white and blue.
• Book Fair
• The book fair is next week in the library.  
• The students will be making wish lists on Monday.  They will be available in the library at the book fair.
• Conferences
• We have enjoyed meeting with everyone we have met with so far and are excited to meet with more families next week.  
• Thank you for taking the time to meet with us to discuss your student's progress.  We truly feel that we are all a team for your student!
• Just a reminder, we will ask you to set a goal for your student when you come in for conferences.  This can be an academic or behavior goal.
• No School: Friday, November 15 (Parent Teacher Conferences)
• TRYPS Play: Tuesday, November 19
• We will be going to see Frozen, Jr. at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 19.
• Thank you to PTA for providing the funding for the tickets and the transportation to the play.
• We will be eating lunch a bit later than normal this day so we have time to get back from the play.  We will try to eat snack before we leave for the play.  
• Thanksgiving Break: Wednesday, November 27-Friday, November 29

Next Week's Learning
Math

• We will be setting goals and reflecting on goals on Monday.
• We will start Unit 4 on Tuesday.  This unit covers time, place value and measurement.
• Our lessons next week will focus on telling time to the nearest 5 minutes and also determining if something is A.M. or P.M.
• Time can be a difficult concept for students, especially since many clocks are digital these days.  Please practice telling time with your students at home.  

Reading

• We will continue our study of fables next week.  
• This week we learned the 3 main characteristics of a fable are they are made-up, often involve animals (who at times take on characteristics of a human) and teach a lesson.
• This week we read "Fox and Crane," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "Wolf!  Wolf!"  The students also read fables on Epic.  They made some in depth connections between the different stories.  They were able to make text-to-text connections between all 3 stories that we read.  

Grammar

• We will continue learning about types of nouns next week.  Students will learn about irregular plural nouns.
• We will also review proper, common and collective nouns.  

Social Studies

• This week, we focused on identifying clothing, adult jobs and kid chores that we currently have.  Next week, we will compare and contrast our current lives to those of colonial times.  

Fundations

• We will continue working on suffixes and practicing these suffixes through dictation.
• We will also work on prefixes and identifying how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning.
• Our trick words are always, often, once, look, they're.

Have a fabulous weekend!