Dear Parents,

Our Halloween Party and Parade were a huge success. Thank you to all the parents who brought in goodies, I am very grateful for your generosity! It was nice to see so many parents visiting the children in the classroom and walking in the parade. Thank you to Kim Koslowsky for helping to arrange it and for setting up and cleaning up. I hope that the children will be nice and calm on Monday, but something tells me that isn't going to be the case. It doesn't help that we are getting our first snow of the season on the same weekend!

This week we will finish up Chapter 3 in Math, but that doesn't mean the children can stop studying their multiplication facts. We are only taking a short break on multiplication to focus on decimals in Chapter 4. They are a little behind in their Study Links, so I might send home 2 in one night.

Rotations started this week and the children were very excited about it. Remember, that they need to be responsible for their homework, even when they have a week to do it. Sometimes, we find that they wait until the last minute and then can't find it. They can pass it in on the next day if that is a problem.

We will start Unit 2 of Reading Street. This past week we were able to squeeze in a Chapter book while reviewing. I enjoy having book talks with them.

Enjoy the week
Jackie

Dear Parents,

This is our review week for Unit 1 of Reading Street, therefore we have review spelling words. We will be taking the unit test on Wed and Thursday. The children can review the types of sentences at home if you would like. They are declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative. We also studied complex and simple sentences. Within the sentences we learned complete and dependent phrases. With all these terms in gets very confusing.

In Math, we have started learning multiplication and division. I will be giving them timed tests throughout the year, so please remember to practice these facts frequently.

Rotations begin on Wednesday. You will be getting a letter from your child's teacher explaining the expectations for the class. Rotations is another way for the children to learn to have some independence and develop responsibility. They take great pride in being able to go to Rotations.

Have a great week.

Dear Parents,

Only one more day for our NECAP testing. It will be on Monday morning and we will be taking the last math test. The children have been working very hard. They have been motivated with cards and treats from the second graders and then rewarded for doing their best, with small gifts from the administration.

We just finished our second chapter of Math and will be starting our next chapter this week. The children are making good progress on partial sums and differences and traditional addition and subtraction. We will continue to work on data.

Now that we have the testing done, we will spend some time studying New Hampshire history.

At the end of this month we will be starting Rotations. I will explain more about that in an upcoming blog.

Hope you have a good week
Jackie

Wow, what a beautiful weekend! I hope the children spent a lot of time outdoors. It was a great weekend to spend with my grandsons at the top of Loon Mountain, ahh, the pleasures of being a grandmother!
Back to work... The children will be taking the Math NECAP this week, on Tuesday and Thursday, then again on Monday of next week. They did an awesome job on the Reading portion. Of course, we don't know the scores, yet but we do know that they were using their test taking strategies.
Enrichment block starts this week. The children have been divided into groups, and will be joining children from Mrs. Swank's class for the last half hour of the day. We meet everyday and our focus will be reading.
If your child is interested in running for student council, the forms are due on Friday. They need to give a speech before the class prior to the children voting.
Please read Cubby's Corner for more school info.

Dear Parents,

This week we will be taking the NECAP test in Reading on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Please maximize your child's ability to do their best by encouraging them and making sure that they get a good night's sleep and a hearty breakfast. They will be working hard.
This year the younger students have partnered with the third and fourth graders to cheer them on. Mrs. Pinard's class is our buddy class and we look forward to seeing what they have planned.
Also, Mrs. Pyszka has prizes for all the students who demonstrate that they are working to the best of their ability.