September 10th

The Wonderville Connection

September 10, 2012

Dear Parents,

The Student Council election was wonderful!  I am so proud of all the students in my class who ran.  They were amazing!  We will have an in-class election for the representatives this week.  Our first Student Council meeting will be Thursday during lunch.

I am beginning parent teacher conferences this week.  Please refer to the blog for my conference schedule.  Please note the early release days next week for conferences.

Here is a quick academic update:

• Math – we finished the unit on multiplication and division.  Hallelujah!  Don’t be alarmed if these skills are still challenging for your student.  We will return to both later in the year.

• Writing – the Pencil Adventure stories are complete!  I haven’t read all of them yet, but those that I have are excellent!  We have super hero pencils, pencils falling in love and pencils dealing with Mrs. Isaacson’s dangerous high heels!  Adorable!  We will write a caricature description this week.  Again, the assignment must be typed and it will be due on Friday.

• Science – we finished the investigations on joints and wrote a class book on Friday about poor Jeremy who broke both humorous and ulna bones as well as several metacarpals and phalanges on both hands.  Our book just discusses a day in his life.  It is rather difficult to have casts from shoulder to fingertip!  This week our investigations focus on muscles!

We decided that the class can do better on learning the names of the bones, so we scheduled another bone name test for Thursday.  We also scheduled a test on the names of 16 muscles for Friday.  Ask your student where his/her deltoids are!

• In Language Arts we will prepare for and take the post test for our first theme.  The focus for this theme is literary elements, prefixes, suffixes, roots, types of sentences and simple/complete subjects and predicates.  You may want to help your child review!

• The book clubs are going well.  One group is already finished with their book and planning their report!

A few students are still struggling to turn in their homework.  Please keep working with your student on homework consistency!

I look forward to meeting all of you at the parent teacher conferences!

Have a great week!

Mrs. Isaacson