12-19-12 Daily Update

Parents,

Happy holidays, everyone!  I hope this break provides you with an opportunity to relax and enjoy time with loved ones.  I'll see you in 2013!

Thank you for all of the donations for the party today... treats, drinks, treat bag items, and wrapped gifts. Everything was great!  The party was a lot of fun.  We played snowball hockey and a Left/right gift game.  We had so many donated gifts that we were able to play twice!  I'll attach a picture to this e-mail.

Remember to encourage your child to continue reading over the break.  All students are on target to meet their reading goal for the quarter right now, however, that's no reason to slough off.  You can help your child transition back into school after break by having them read daily.  I told students that I expect everyone to have an AR test to take when we return.

The same is true for math facts. This break provides a great opportunity to catch up on this practice if your child needs it.   If your child has not yet mastered addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts yet, then have them work with Flash cards or the Math Facts in a Flash program.

Your child received a newsletter about next month's Powerhouse theme - exercise.  They can fill out the included slips to earn Powerhouse prizes after break.

Reminders:

• Turn in Peach Student Directory form (optional)

-Mr. Pransky

Language: 

None.

Reading:  

Read your AR book for 15-20 minutes each night

AR Goal for Fri., January 4 is 80%

Social Studies:  

None.

Science: 

None.

Math:   

None.

Spelling:  

Lesson 14 Test Thursday, January 11th

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

Google Apps - check school e-mail and use google applications (un: last name_firstname    pw: aw + 6 digit lunch code)

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: last name_firstname    pw: aw + 6 digit lunch code)

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: infohio  pw:power)

SpellingCity - quiz and play games using each week's list words

Scholastic Book Order - Class Activation Code: F8273

--
Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade