9-7-12 Daily Update

Parents, 

With Labor Day and the fog delay, the week really flew by.  The students are catching on to class routines more each day. As students are getting more accustomed to my expectations, I will be holding each student more accountable for their responsibilities.  Forgetting little (yet important) tasks like putting a name on a paper or putting homework in the tray in the morning was excused for the first week or so but will cost students a battle ball ticket if they are forgotten from here on.

A couple miscellaneous notes:

• Several students do not have ear phones/buds.  We use these a lot with the ipads/laptops for listening to stories, spelling city.com and other things.  These students did not bring in this supply: Logan, Alex, Alexa, Kyle, Davin (has them but for some reason they don't work)  
• We finished reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing today.  It is a classic story by Judy Blume.  Ask your child about their favorite part of the book.  The AR test for the book gave all of the students a boost with their AR percentage.  As I said yesterday, however, each child needs to read and finish books on their own at home to be assured to reach their weekly goals.  For the next few weeks we will read from our reading textbook, so home reading will be essential to earn those AR points.
• I have linked some videos from Moodle Math:Topic 1 Place Value that may help your child if he/she is having difficulty with concepts of place value.  
• See my separate e-mail about our September Scholastic Book order.  Paper copies of 3 book order forms went home today

Have a great weekend!

-Mr. Pransky

Language: 

Reading:  

Read your AR book for 15-20 minutes each night

AR Goal for Friday is 23%

Social Studies:  

None

Science: 

None

Math:   

Study math facts

Spelling:  

Lesson 3 Test  is Thursday

Practice list on SpellingCity

Quick Links:

Class Blog- frequently used links and daily updates.

Home Connect - check AR reading and Accelerated Math, or practice with Math Facts in a Flash

Moodle - web links and resources for every subject! (un: lastname_firstname   pw: 6 digit lunch number)

Pearson  - Access math book and worksheets from the math book (un: lastname_firstname  pw: pransky#)

AR Book Find - Do you have a book at home or from another library that you are wondering if it is AR?  Look it up here.

Infohio - Awesome resource for web research with online encyclopedias for kids among other things (un: learn  pw:infohio)

--
Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade

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