We hope you all had a great weekend! It's hard to believe that it's the final week before everyone's much deserved Thanksgiving break! While it's the week before break, we do still have a busy week ahead of us with a LOT going on, so please continue reading to check out our reminders, announcements, and homework schedule for the week. As always, please reach out to your child's teacher if you have any questions!
Some General Reminders and Announcements:
Book Fair: Don't forget that the Book Fair is still going on this week! Students can still purchase books from the book fair during homeroom, and parents can also purchase books when/if you attend the Thanksgiving Feast!
TAG Week of 11/18: On the week of the 18th, TAG days will be switched. Students will NOT attend TAG on Thursday, but will instead attend on Tuesday (11/19). The switch will occur this week only.
(Additionally, TAG students will NOT miss the class Spelling Bee. We will hold the Bee first thing in the morning on the 19th, and TAG will report to their teachers immediately following the end of the Bee.)
Class Spelling Bees: We will hold our class Spelling Bees on the morning of November 19th! Students received an official Spelling Bee word list to practice from (if they wanted - this was not mandatory) a few weeks back. All 4th & 5th grade homeroom winners will participate in the School Spelling Bee on Thursday, December 5th!
Thanksgiving Feast: Please be sure to send in Thanksgiving Feast papers and money as soon as possible if you plan to attend! This will help the cafe plan accordingly for the big day! We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, November 21st!
Thanksgiving Break: Please remember that Thanksgiving Break is the week of the 25th. IF your child will be absent any days the week of the 18th (specifically the 21st/22nd), PLEASE notify your child's teacher. Students will be having a math and reading assessment those days before the break, and we would like students to take these before break, rather than after if they are going to be absent on the assessment days. Thank you for your attention to this matter :)
Important Upcoming Dates:
Please note that test dates are always considered tentative. If in future the team decides that a test date needs to be changed (usually in the form of being pushed back if we feel that the students are not ready), we will communicate the change to you all. Until then, these dates represent our assessment plan.
- Unit 2 Reading Assessment - 11/21
- Unit 2 Math Assessment for 4.1 Group - 11/22
Homework & Important Dates for the Week of November 11th:
Monday (11/18):
- Reading: 'Can You Only See The Moon at Night?' science article.
- Students can read non-fiction to meet their minimum of 20 minutes.
- Math (All Groups): Day 1 Spiral Review
Tuesday (11/19):
- Reading: Read for 20 min and log
- Math (All Groups): Day 2 Spiral Review
- Class Spelling Bees
- TAG Today!
Wednesday (11/20):
- Reading: Read for 20 min and log
- Math (All Groups): Day 3 Spiral Review
Thursday (11/21):
- Reading: Read for 20 min and log
- Math (All Groups): Day 4 Spiral Review
- Reading Assessment
- 4th Grade Thanksgiving Feast!
Friday (11/21):
- Unit 2 Math Assessment (4.1 only)
We hope that you have an amazing Thanksgiving Break!
- Mrs. Alterman, Mr. Pape, Ms. Smith, Ms. Stohr and Mrs. Widis