12 March 2010

What's Happening This Week

Reading

• Comprehension 

  Classify

  Summarizing

• Phonics

 V/CV and VC/V patterns

 Hard and soft sound of c and g

• Vocabulary

 Words parts

 Analogies

• Grammar

 Pronoun/verb agreement

 Contractions

Writing

 Description

 Writer's Olympics stories - These are due March 22. Only three   students have turned their projects to me.

Math

Second Grade

• Comparing weights shown on a graph

• Introducing the ounce

• Relating units of capacity

• Solving problems involving capacity

Third Grade

• Multiplication assessment

• Multiplying with three factors

• Find a rule and choosing an operation

• Chapter test on multiplication

Important Things Coming Up

• We are now working on the Writer's Olympics projects.  This story will be due on March 22.  Every students should submit a story by that time.  Participating in the Writer's Olympics will help towards each students completing their Satch Patch requirments.  The following requirements are for their story they will submit.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

   * One entry per student

   * One author per entry

   * Up to ten double spaced pages, whether handwritten or typed. (12-point font). Fewer pages are fine.  No longer than ten pages.

   * Conversation is not required

   * Entries are to be submitted to the classroom teacher

   * Mightyauthors.com is a web site that is available for students who wish to make thier own books for personal use.  Stories can be published through this site and entered in the Writer's Olympics.  However it is totally optional.

   * Students have the option of also entering their stories in the Mightyauthors.com writing contest.  Entries are due April 15.  The site offers cash awards for winners. 

   * Stories will be judged on ideas, organization, conventions, word choice, sentence fluency and overall creativity. Contact me  if you want to see the writing judging rubric.

• Our next SEP conference will be held Thursday, March 25.  There is a signup sheet by the office.  I will be avaiable on Tuesday March 23 from 3:15 to 4:15; Wednesday March 24 from 3:15 to 4:30; and again on Thursday March 25 from 1:00 to 6:00.  Students will be dismissed at 1:00 on both Thursday, March 25 and Friday, March 26.

• We have three students who are allergic to peanuts.  If you send birthday treats, please send treats that DO NOT contain peanuts.  Thank you very much!

• The best way to contact me is by email.  I can be reached at randyev@provo.edu  I will check my emails every evening. And promise to respond back to you that evening.  You can telephone the school at 374-4910.  I usually do not take the calls during class time.  But before class and after class I am available.  I am happy to set an appointment to meet with you as well.  Call the school and they can do that.