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DeWys Declares & Harvey Hollers Volume 11, Issue 17

What’s New in Resource Room? Well, we made it! This week, we introduced the fifth, and final, Daily 5 literacy choice! Word Work is here! We are ALL, staff and students alike, so excited! One thing we can say about this group is that they are always up for trying something new. We love how they have patiently listened as we explained this newest literacy choice, and how they are working hard to build stamina in this area as well! Ask your child this weekend about all the fun materials they can now use to practice spelling and vocabulary. We are becoming readers and writers, and it is a joy to watch!

In other news, although it seems impossible, spring parent/teacher conferences are just around the corner. We are really looking forward to meeting with you and your child’s general education teacher during the first week of March. Until then, have a great weekend and spend some great time with your kids! We can’t thank you enough for sharing them with us!

Mrs. DeWys & Mrs. Harvey

Winter Break February 13/14, 2012

This is our winter break weekend. We’ll have no school for students on these days.

HMS Parent Meeting February 23, 2012

We have a date! Parents of fifth graders, see the attached note for more information! We can’t wait!

Spring P/T Conferences

March 5 & 6, 2012 We’ll meet at similar, if not the same, times that we met in the fall. We’ll meet with you and your child’s general ed teacher.

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Skills 4 Success...

Last spring the Board of Education adopted the Skills 4 Success. Local businesses collaborated to gather a set of skills they would like their future employees to have. Our hope is to integrate these skills into our daily instruction. Last week, we introduced you to Communication and Problem Solving. This week, we’ll introduce the last three.

The fourth skill valued by local businesses in our community is flexibility and adaptability. We practice this skill in our classroom by working with students through schedule changes, changes in routine, seating changes, different assignment formats and reacting to situations with peers.

Another Skill 4 Success we are developing in our room is ethical citizenship. We are working on this skill through teaching students to help others when they need it, not helping others when they don’t need it, and creating a classroom promise document with rules and procedures.

The last skill we are working on is personal accountability. We develop this in our students by making them responsible for homework and assignments, graphing their own progress on a goal, and taking ownership of individual learning targets and working towards them.

Mrs.

MRS. DE WYS DECLARES & MRS. HARVEY HOLLERS-VOLUME 11, ISSUE 17 FEBRUARY 3, 2012

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Y5s/Kdg./1st Grade Reading: This week, we worked on the learning targets of: I can check for understanding as I read and I can read c-v-c words. We read the books Apple Pie Family and Snap! Writing: This week, we continued working on the learning target: I can add details to my writing. We started a poetry unit and are writing list poems and color poems. Math: Our learning targets this week were: I can count dimes, nickels and pennies, and I can add single digits to the number 5 and the number 6, and I can write two digit numbers.

Second Grade Reading: This week, our learning target was: I can read frequently encountered sight words, such as number words. We read the book Ten Little Fish. We also began reading the books Beatrice Doesn’t Want To. Writing: This week, we continued working on the learning target: I can add details to my writing. We started a poetry unit and are writing list poems and color poems. Word Study: This week, we worked on the learning target: I can spell words that are spelled the way they sound.

Fourth Grade Reading : This week, we continued to work on two learning targets: I can check for understanding, and I can reread for fluency. We read the books Ralph S. Mouse and Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion.

Writing: This week we continued a poetry unit we started last week. We have written a list poem, a limerick poem, and a color poem. During this writing we focused on the learning target: I can add details to my writing.

Word Study: This week, we worked on reviewing and practicing how to spell compound and homophone words. This supported our learning target: I can spell frequently encountered words.

Math: This week, we continued to work on the learning targets of: I can multiply two digit and three digit numbers with regrouping and I can divide three digit numbers with remainders.

Third Grade Reading: This week, we worked on the learning targets: I can check for understanding and I can cross check as I read. We read the books A Dozen Dizzy Dogs, Flat Stanley and Ten Little Fish.

Writing: This week, we continued working on the learning target: I can add details to my writing. We started a poetry unit and are writing list poems.

Word Study: We continued working on the learning target: I can spell words with the same sound yet different spellings. We also took our second of three annual spelling achievement tests.

Math: This week, we continued working on the learning targets: I can subtract two and three digit numbers with regrouping. We practiced this skill in a variety of ways.

Fifth Grade

Reading: We worked on the learning targets: I can check for understanding and I can cross check for accuracy as I read. We continued reading The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. During reading, we are working on making predications and asking questions while we read. Writing: This week, we continued with our Biography writings we started last week. We are starting to publish on the iPad using the Key Note application. This was in support of our learning target: I can add details to my writing. Word Study: This week, we took our second of three annual spelling assessments called achievement tests. These went great! We’ve really improved in our spelling skills this year! Math: We continued our unit on place value in math. Our learning target is: I can multiply and divide multi-digit numbers containing decimals.