Wednesday, February 27, 2013

2-27-13 Daily Update

Parents, 

Snacks.  Once again, we are just about out of our classroom supply of snacks.  If anyone would like to donate an easy to share snack like goldfish or crackers, that would be appreciated.  I could also use a donation on mints.  We use these to improve concentration while we are taking tests in math.  We also use them occasionally when a student has a sore throat or a cough.

Conferences.  I would like to try to reschedule our conferences on the inservice day (Tuesday, March 5).  I will e-mail individual families with requested times.

Onomatopoeia.  Today we learned about onomatopoeia in Reading.  As an example, we watched and listened to a youtube video that had lots of examples of this technique.    They are linked below

onomatopoeia

Then we generated a big list of onomatopoetic words and created and word art image of our ideas.  The image is attached.

Reminders:
  • Tuesday, March 5 is Teacher Inservice Day (No school)

-Mr. Pransky


Language

None.


Reading:  

Read your AR book for 15-20 minutes each night

AR Goal for Friday, February 15 is 54%


Social Studies:  

Begin working on culture box project.


Science

Lesson 1.3 questions

Math:   

Symmetry coloring picture (extra credit)


Spelling:  

Lesson 20 Test - Thursday, February 28

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


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)
Scholastic Book Order - Class Activation Code: F8273


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Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade