Ms. Maurine Forbes - P6
News:
Every child is now in the 100 Book
Club, 14 in the 200 Book Club, 8 in the 300 Book Club, 3 in the 400,
and 2 in the 500!
May 2010
Save the Date: June 4, 2010
Team 1 Celebration
6-7 p.m.
P-6 students will be performing the Hula
Your child will need to wear a bathing suit or swim trunk.
Save the Date: June 17, 2010
Pizza Fondi Ceremony
10:40 a.m. in P-6
12 noon leave for Pizza Fondi
Please turn in your paperwork and $11 for the trophy
Has your child learned the P-6 Creed? It is an important part of earning respect by showing respect!
- Math:
- Rat Race
- We’re making unbelievable progress
- Key to success is practice
- Five students are now on
multiplication or beyond
- Place value: thousand, hundreds, tens, ones
- Regrouping of ones, tens, hundreds
- Money exchanges – including a dollar or more
- Polygons
- Spheres, cylinders, rectangular prisms
- Time to quarter hours and the minute
- Graphs
- Centimeter and inch
- Fractions
- Extra, Extra or Extra Extra Math books
- Science:
- Organisms
- Seed study – plant growth
- Aquarium – fish and snails
- Terrarium – moss and seedlings
- Writing:
- Quotation marks
- Base words and endings
- Finishing up Penguin books
- Art:
- Weaving
- Fish mobiles
- Self portraits
Show and Tell
Prepare your child for about a 1 minute presentation.
Monday: - Rosy, Kieran, Kalena, Tiana, Paul
Tuesday –Will, Lucy, Eli, Larren, Michael
Wednesday – Colin, Emily, Daniel, Rylee Jo, Ben
Thursday – Ryan, Lauren, Fiona, Jahsai
Friday – Alexander, Madeline, Ella, Milo
Accelerated Readers
Every child is now in the 100 Book Club , 14 in the 200 Book Club, 8 in the 300 Book Club, 3 in the 400, and 2 in the 500. We have only two more students who have not reached their goal, and soon we’re going to have mass hysteria when this occurs.
We have also just started Junior Great Books which is an awesome tool for teaching upper level thinking skills. Be on the lookout for your child’s book and assignment each Friday, from now until the end of the year. It requires about a half hour of work every weekend. It is essential that the book is returned on Monday with work completed.
Book Club rewards
100 Book Club: Receive a laminated certificate on fadeless paper!
200 Book Club: Chapter book (ooooh!) and bookmark, handpicked by Ms. Forbes!
300 Book Club: $5 gift certificate from Barnes & Noble!
400 Book Club: $25 gift certificate from Barnes & Noble!
500 Book Club: $35 gift certificate from Barnes & Noble!
600 Book Club: $40 gift certificate from Barnes & Noble!
700 Book Club: $45 gift certificate from Barnes & Noble!
800 Book Club: $50 gift certificate from Barnes & Noble!
900 Book Club: $55 gift certificate from Barnes & Noble!
1000 Book Club: $100 savings bond - no way!
Here are the long awaited Accelerated Reading lists. One is in alphabetical order and the other one by grade level. I hope they will be helpful! When your child reads an AR book at home, be sure to write down the title and send it to school with your child. It is important that they let me know so that I make sure they don't forget to take the test.
Reading List (sorted by title)
Reading List (sorted by level)
Homework Homework goes home on Mondays and should be returned on Thursdays. My number one criteria is neatness.
Weekend Reading goes home on Fridays and comes back on Mondays (no exceptions, please!). It is the student's job to read their selections to their parent, and it's the parents' job to initial the back of each piece. You do not have to re-read the old selections.
Room Parents - Fay Allen, Leah Lozier, Gina Huddleston, Jessica Schwartz, Brindy Bundesmann, Eric Jones, Holly Coe
Academic Volunteers
- Monday – Michael Cerceo (9:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
- Tuesday – Kate Ballbach (every other am)
- Wednesday – Megan Atkinson (every other am)
- Thursday – Fay Allen (am), Holly Coe (am); Gina Huddleston (pm)
- Friday – Brindy Bundesmann (am)
P-6 students love their volunteers. See list of other volunteers here.
Reminders
- Please provide non-sugar snack about once a month.
- Please note that we have students who are severely allergic to certain foods - no nuts, eggs, kiwi, and seaweed, please!
- Please remember your child is responsible for bringing his folder to school everyday and returning it home each afternoon, even if it is empty.
- We celebrate your child's birthday or half-year birthday with songs, a little present and some games.
- Book orders will come home about once a month.
- Read to Succeed calendars need to be turned in twice each month.
- Box Tops for Education - we are collecting them in our classroom in a large container so that Ms. Hare will be able to purchase additional books for our library.