Summit School is very excited to welcome our Guest Author,
David Shannon, to Summit Elementary School on Tuesday afternoon. We discussed, read, and shared why we love so
many of his books this past week. We practiced our reading strategy of forming
theories about characters while we read his book, Alice the Fairy. What an exciting opportunity for our students
to meet one of their favorite authors!
Students
were introduced to our district's new keyboarding program on Friday. We will
be working on our keyboarding skills two times a week, however to truly
solidify these skills and encourage transference, practicing at home is ideal. At school students will use the website, http://www.typingweb.com , which can be accessed at home too! Student logins are the same logins they use to get on the computers at school. Additional websites can be found under our "Online Learning Resources tab".
If you have not done so already, take a moment to look over
students' science tests that came home last week. Please sign and return these tests to me.
We had a great start to tracking our thinking in our Reader's Notebooks this week. So far we are off to a pretty good start working to extend our thinking. We will continue this practice for the entire school year adding different strategies to document our thinking as we continue to grow as readers. This work should be done throughout the whole book, not just a final reflection at the end of the book. When students finish their chapter book, they should hand in their notebooks to me. Ask your child to see their work they did in their notebooks this week.
Reminders: Word study
notebooks are due to school on Thursdays.
These should be coming back and forth between home and school each
night. Notebooks may or may not be coming home on
Thursdays, however their WORDS definitely should! Spelling tests are always on Fridays. For a detailed description of the nightly homework
expectations, please see the green sheet stapled to the inside back cover of
their notebooks.
Please help remind your students that part of their Wednesday night homework is to write an explanation sentence at the
end of each column of their blind sort, stating why the words belong there. As a class we are working towards remembering this important step.
The Book Fair is coming! Our class
will have the opportunity to shop the book fair on October 15th from 1:00-1:20. The book fair is also open late on certain
nights if you'd like to join your child during their shopping time! Please check with the office for specific
dates and times.
