A Couple/Few Things

1.  Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me during conferences.  Your children are really working hard.  I am really enjoying this class, their drive and willingness to learn.

2.  On Tuesday, we went on a Virtual Field Trip to Plimouth Plantation!  Click the link if you'd like to see what we saw.

3.  Mt. Ararat Class of 2013 is having an online auction.  Please view if you are interested...

4.  Reminder...Pasta Dinner is Friday (11/19) night.  5:00-7:00  Baskets Raffle Winners will be chosen!  See you there.

Book Order

Due, Monday, November 15.
Please make all checks payable to "Scholastic."
Let me know if any of these orders are gifts.
I can email you when they come in, and arrange for special pick-up.

***Old Fort Western was great.  Ask your child what station was their favorite.***

Old Fort Western

 OLD FORT WESTERN

This is where we are headed on Tuesday.
Weather looks crumby.  Please dress warm and waterproof.

Choice

In our reading workshop time, we have 2, 3 or 4  sessions where students choose from Read to Self, Work on Writing, Read to Someone, Word Work, Listen to Reading, and Station Work.  The first two sessions must be either Read to Self or Work on Writing. 
So, since the beginning of school, they were all doing reading first (together).  When I first gave them a choice between Reading or Writing first, I found it interesting they all chose to write first.  Hmm...

Ask your child about the Tallies they've been keeping during read to self time.

Reading Workshop

This week we've reviewed
1.  How to choose a JUST RIGHT book. 
     This is a book that's read with at least 97% accuracy. 
     It's a book that I am interested in, can talk about and read smoothly (like I talk).

2.  How we CHECK for UNDERSTANDING when we read
     We can give ourselves a "pop quiz"
     We ask, "Who was in this part?  Where were they?  What's going on in this part?"
     We can also ask, "What do I think about this part?"

     We can also retell the story across our fingers
     (and go back and look at the pictures if we are unsure of the next part)

3.  What we do when we get to the TRICKY parts
     We look at the pictures
     We look at the beginning sound
     We ask ourselves, "What makes sense?"
     We ask, "Does it look right?  Does it sound right?"

CRAFT FAIR 2010 @ WCS

Saturday, October 30th, 9am-3pm...

Please come out to support the kids at Williams Cone School this Saturday. We are having a huge craft fair with many talented artisans selling their wares. 

We are having a "kid-made" art sale as well as a 50/50 raffle, bake sale and soup/bread sale (come for lunch).  Proceeds benefit arts enrichment at the school.

Book Fair, Basket, Brownies

Greetings.

1.  The Book Fair will be in town until Friday.  You may send money to school with your child or visit Thursday evening.  If you send money, t is helpful to specify the book you'd like them to buy, or if you don't want them to buy pencils/posters/erasers, please note "books only." (pretty sure that's a run-on sentence)

2.  Thank you for the basket donations received to day.  Our theme is Building.  Legos, Bendaroos, K'Nex, amd more fit into this category.  Donations are still being accepted, and will be for another 2 weeks, I believe.

3.  The class is working toward a brownie reward.  Yum.  They are close.  I'll let you know when the big day is.  Ask them how they earn "glass globs."