Happy Halloween!
We had a great party on Friday following the Goffstown parade. The children were very excited and looked adorable in their costumes. Thanks goes to Rachel Welbourne for organizing the party and for the wonderful pictures. Also, I would like to thank all the moms who provided delicious treats for the kids and helped serve and clean up. They are: Laurie Dalton, Christine Biron, Cindy Murphy , Katlyn Goss, Gail Houle, Donna McKay, Erin Fontaine. I hope that the children will be all settled now after a fun-filled weekend.
In math this week, we will be taking the unit 3 test. It is still necessary for your child to be studying their math facts every night. We need to get them to memorize them so that they will be able to do the more challenging math that lays ahead.
Our Reading Streets program is becoming a little more comfortable for the students and me. We are starting to get into the routine. A spelling test is given every Friday. One week we almost had every child with a 100%, but since then there has been a decline. Please make sure they study at home.
On Tuesday, the district is having a workshop for us on the use of technology with the Reading Street program. I am looking forward to learning how the children can access the program from home and do some of their home reading on the computer.
I hope that you have a good week.
Sincerely,
Jackie Hamilton
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Dear Parents,
This week will be a busy week with the NECAP testing from 9:00-10:30 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We will miss quite a bit of Reading, but we will push on and get as much done as possible without overloading the children. They will get an extra recess at the end of the school day. Next week the NECAP testing will be in Math and the children will be tested at the same time on Wed, Thurs and Friday, so we will change our schedule to shorten the regular class math time and fit in reading instead. Please make sure that your child gets plenty of sleep and is well nourished.
Our math this week will be on collecting, organizing and interpreting a set of data. The children will need to learn the vocab- landmark, maximum, minimum, mode, mean, median. At the same time they should be memorizing their multiplication tables at home.
Some still need to practice the addition and subtraction tables, so that they don't have to count on their fingers, which slows them down and makes everything else that much more difficult.
I hope you have a good week.
Sincerely,
Jackie Hamilton
This week will be a busy week with the NECAP testing from 9:00-10:30 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We will miss quite a bit of Reading, but we will push on and get as much done as possible without overloading the children. They will get an extra recess at the end of the school day. Next week the NECAP testing will be in Math and the children will be tested at the same time on Wed, Thurs and Friday, so we will change our schedule to shorten the regular class math time and fit in reading instead. Please make sure that your child gets plenty of sleep and is well nourished.
Our math this week will be on collecting, organizing and interpreting a set of data. The children will need to learn the vocab- landmark, maximum, minimum, mode, mean, median. At the same time they should be memorizing their multiplication tables at home.
Some still need to practice the addition and subtraction tables, so that they don't have to count on their fingers, which slows them down and makes everything else that much more difficult.
I hope you have a good week.
Sincerely,
Jackie Hamilton
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