Friday

Tomorrow will be Auburn/Alabama day in our classroom. Dress your child in their favorite team for the Iron Bowl next weekend :) Also, I will be making the class vegetable soup to have for lunch tomorrow so you do not have to worry about sending lunch tomorrow.

Field Trip Update

There will be a change in the time we are leaving tomorrow. I talked to the 3rd grade who went to Landmark a few weeks ago. They left at 8 and made it there in time so we are going to meet at the school at 7:45. You do not have to send anything with you child tomorrow.

Lunch

If your child is ordering please email me or send me a note. I have had a few tell me they were suppose to order yet had a lunch in their lunch box. If they have a lunch in their lunch box I am not going to let them order unless I hear from you.

Language Test

Please review singular and plural possessives each night with your child. Plural possessives can be very hard to understand.

Grades

Grades should be posted now. I tried to post them last week but I am not sure what was going on or why they did not show. Please email me if you cannot see them!

Science Test

Our Science Test this week has been pushed back until Thursday. We were not able to get everything we needed finished so we could take it tomorrow.

Landmark Park

Our drivers for Landmark Park on Wednesday will be: Kim Stevens, Chrissy Martin, Mandie Baker, and Karla Harrison.

We will meet at the school at 7:20 and leave promptly at 7:30. We have to be at the park by 9:00 so I would like us to have plenty of time to travel there. Remember long solid color pants and Pike Field Trip t-shirt. If you do not have 1 please wear a red Pike shirt. Also, please wear close toed shoes. Lunch will be provided for them. It will be ham, sweet potatoes, black eyed peas, and corn bread.

Lunch

This week will begin the first week of hot meals at school. There is a menu posted on the Pike Lib. website for you to see what will be served. If you would like your child to purchase food from the lunchroom PLEASE send me a note with what they are to order, either daily or weekly, and their Pepi card or money.

Thanksgiving Break

School will be dismissing at 12:00 on Friday, November 22 for Thanksgiving Break!!

Landmark Park Field Trip

Our first field trip is next Wednesday, November 20th. I am not sure what time we will be leaving to go to Dothan but I will let you know as soon as I find out. I do know they are to wear solid color pants and shirts. They also are to wear closed toed shoes. I will update as I find out more information.

Test Schedule

Thursday: Spelling Trial and Math

Friday: Dictation, Language, Reading

Language this week we are working on plural, singular, and abbreviations. There are notes in language notebook.

Reading is on "Baby Bears." There is a test review page in their Reading Vocabulary notebook. They have to know 5 of the consonant diagraph words to spell on the test. Also, what an expository text is and the suffixes -ful and -less will be on there. There will be more notes taken this week. Make sure to read the story very well and ask them questions during and after reading.

We will not have a science test until next Tuesday but this week we are working on Chapter 8.

Lunch Tuesday

For lunch Tuesday we will be celebrating Kate, Houston, Carter, and Jackson's birthday. You do not have to send lunch on Tuesday, lunch will be provided by their parents. 

AR

We still do not have Internet in our building. I know it is very frustrating, trust me! If your child needs to take an AR test I am trying my best to send them to take 1 at the library. Mrs. Hinson is having to use her WIFI on her laptop so it takes some time. All the other classes in this building are doing the same. 

School Picture

I just found out this morning that even if you do not purchase your school pictures you must send them back in to the office, please send these back to me as soon as you can!

Reading Test

The test this week is on "Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!" We have been taking notes in our reading vocabulary notebook. They should bring their little reading book home tonight for vocabulary and there are some pages in it that you can look over with them for the test. The main topic and key details page, narrative nonfiction page, and syllable page are great ones to look at for the test. All these things will be asked on the test. They also have a question on the test where they have to use 1 of the vocabulary words from the story (there will be a list on their test) to write something the turtles did in our story. They can pick any 1 of the 8 vocabulary words we have studies this week they would like. It has to makes sense and be complete sentence or sentences with correct punctuation.

Update on this week

Our internet is still down so I am not able to update the blog like I should because I'm having to do it on my phone. I am not going to be here on Friday so we will move our tests up 1 day. I have decided to change our reading test and language test. I will see how this goes! I am going to make our reading test up based on the story for the week. It will still include the skills we are working on for the week. It will not be just like the tests before, it will be more involved with the story. I just do not like the tests that come with our reading series. I believe they should be tested based on the story we are working on for the week. Language comes with our reading series so I am going to start doing the language for the week that has been provided for me with the reading. This week we are working on kinds of nouns (common and proper) and captial letters. This means on Thursday for their language test they will be tested on kinds of nouns and capital letters. We will work on those 2 things all week. I will update more about the reading test as the week goes on. 

Test Schedule: 

Wednesday- Trail Spelling and Math

Thursday- Dictation, Spelling (if needed), Language, and Reading

Friday- Science (I am going to let my sub give this test because of the study guide.)

For homework please read their story "Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!" with them every night and study the language notes we take each day.