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Week of 11/26/07

Be sure to return the behavior sheet on Monday!  Get those signed and returned to me by Monday.

We will begin a new theme in our reading anthology.  We will read City Green.  Be sure to read this story at home each night. We will continue with our regular schedule this week.  Our spelling focus this week is words with oi/ou sound.  We will also work on pronouns, vocabulary words, comparing and contrasting, and the author's purpose.  We have been learning about P.I.E.-- authors write to persuade, inform, and entertain!  Here are the spelling words for this week:

1. about

2. around

3. how

4. now

5. sour

6. sprouting

7. towel

8. joy

9. found

10. soil

11. down

12. out

13. loud

14. enjoy

15. program

16. flower

17. property

18. brown

19. city

20. petition

We will continue to work on multiplication.  Please continue to practice all the multiplication tables.  We will begin taking multiplication timed tests on 0-12.  Also, we are taking division tests on facts 0-9.  Work with your child at home to practice these facts.  We will review chapter 10.  We will have a test on chapter 10 this week. Here is the homework in math for this week:

Monday ---CW 50--10.1--Combination Challenge.  This is a handout!  I will explain all handouts this week.

Tuesday-  CW 51--10.2--What's the Rule? Figure out what is happening in the first drawing...Are the drawings doubling or tribling?  What is the rule?

Wednesday--CW 52--10.3--Missing Factor.  The first problem has been done for the children, please be sure to check it with them. This is also a handout.  Please check this sheet with your child. This is a bit hard!

Thursday--CW 53 10.4-- Property Match Game.  We will play this at school; please play with your child to reinforce the properties of multiplication. Also do CW 54--10.5--Special Delivery.

Social Studies:  The Greyhounds will have one more week with Mr. Dunn and then they will start Science with Mrs. Lance.  Look for study guides this week.

Science:  The children will have science for the next three weeks.  They will be learning about Heat and Energy! Look for important dates in science in the planner!

FOUNDATION NEWS:

Its just around the corner!  The Annual Ornament Exchange is next Monday, Dec. 3, 10:00 -12:30 at the Hampton Farms Clubhouse.  Donation to attend is $35 (checks payable to "Sope Creek Foundation").  Hosts are Mindy Gurr, Vivian Jackson, Sue Knowlton, Lauren Seckman, Wendy Villone and Dianna Wagner.  RSVP to Lane Holt (laneholt@yahoo.com) by Thursday, Nov.29.

Thanks to all the parents how have already supported the SmartKids Campaign with your contributions and pledges.  3rd grade is in a class 2nd place behind 2nd grade which has 36% participation.  3rd grade is very closely trailed by 1st grade (29.4%) and K (29.6%).  Please consider supporting Sope Creek with your commitment of a donation or pledge (payable by Jan. 31, 2008) by December 7. 

Third	191	61	31.93%
Blaeser	19	7
Dunn	20	7
Gago	19	3
Lance	21	6
Lawrence	19	8
Mande	19	6
Mills	20	7
Moschetta	19	5
Nagle	15	6
Yim	20	6

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The Short Week of 11/19/07

Scholastic Magazines are coming home today.  Visit the blog and hover over the scholastic website.  The orders are due by December 5th.  Our class has read over 100 books!  Thanks to the efforts of the Greyhounds, Scholastic will donate 100 books to kids in need!  Thanks Greyhounds for a job well done!

A BIG THANK YOU TO THE WONDERFUL ELLIS FAMILY!  THEY HAVE PURCHASED A SMARTBOARD FOR OUR CLASS!  THIS IS A WONDERFUL TEACHING TOOL AND I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH.  I'M HUMBLED MY THIS GENEROUS GIFT.  THANKS TO ALL THE OTHER PARENTS WHO HAVE DONATED MONEY TOWARDS THE SMARTBOARD, TOO.  YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!! WHAT A WONDERFUL GROUP OF PARENTS WE HAVE.  I'M SO LUCKY!!

May you have a lovely Thanksgiving with your precious children.  They are truly a joy to teach!  I will be giving thanks for such a great group of students!

Monday is our Thanksgiving Day feast for the Students Only!  Please have your child dress in holiday attire.  They will have Art as their specials so you do not need to bring in a change of clothes. I will be taking pictures of that great day, so look for the pictures on the blog!

IOWA Testing results will be going home today, November 16th.  A brochure explaining the results, the purpose of the test, and reading the scores will be included. Be sure to look over this.  This is all for you to keep!

We will have many Thanksgiving Day Literature and activities.  After Thanksgiving, we will begin a new unit in reading.  We will read City Green.  The grammar will include singular and plural pronouns, compare and contrast, and homographs.  I will post the spelling words for that week no later than Sunday, November 25th!

In math, we will continue to work on Multiplication facts.  Please practice those during the break.  We begin a new Chapter on Division.  This is chapter 11.  Look for the homework assignments for the week after Thanksgiving no later than Sunday, November 25th!

In Social Studies, the children are learning about government and will be working on Chapter 7 of the social studies book.  Look for handouts, study guides, and test dates in your child's binder.

IMPORTANT DATES:

11/19--STUDENT THANKSGIVING FEAST.

11/21--11/25--THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY BREAK!

11/22--THANKSGIVING DAY!

11/30--READING LOGS ARE DUE! REMEMBER TO READ DURING THE HOLIDAY BREAK, TOO!

      

Week of 11/12/07

We continue to work with our supplemental library.  We are learning about venemous snakes, taking a closer look at nature, learning about biggest, farthest, fastest animals, and learning about animals and their body language.  These supplemental books help children understand non-fiction text.  We learn how to take a closer look at pictures, graphs, and captions.

Here are the spelling words for the week.  These are review words from previous weeks.  Please do not do the Thursday homework in spelling.  We don't have a spelling pattern as these are review words from previous weeks.  ONLY DO MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY!

1.  later

2. large

3. keep

4. kind

5. half

6. going

7. front

8. great

9. girl

10. ground

11. group

12. himself

13. earth

14. brought

15. black

16. asked

17. become

18. might

19. mother

20. near

We will work on Chapter 10.  We have been working in small groups to help us memorize our multiplication time tables. As we learn multiplication facts up to 12, we will also look at division as it is the inverse operation of multiplication. We will start taking timed division tests as well on facts 0-9.  Please continue to practice the multiplication facts with your child.  You should be spending at least 15 minutes each night on the this.

Here is the homework for the week:

Monday---RW 47 and RW 50 Learning how to use a graph and multiples of 9 and 10.

Tuesday--RW 51 Finding a Rule

Wednesday--RW 52 Associative Property of Multiplication --3 factors. No matter how they are grouped, the answer is the same.  (4 x 1) x 3= 12 or

4 x (1 x 3)= 12.

Thursday-- RW 53 Multiplication Properties

IMPORTANT DATES:

11/12--11/16--F.R.E.D. WEEK.  WE HAVE A FEW STUDENTS (5) THAT DID NOT RETURN THIS SHEET.  IF YOU STILL WANT TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE WRITE IT DOWN ON A SHEET OF PAPER AND GIVE IT TO ME SOMETIME THIS WEEK. THIS IS NATIONAL TURN OFF YOUR T.V. AND READ A BOOK WEEK!

11/12--PTA BOARD MEETING @ 9 A.M.

11/14/07-- BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB FOR OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS--7:20 A.M. IN THE MEDIA CENTER!

11/21--11/23---THANKSGIVING BREAK! 

November 13th is Sope Creek Pizza Night at Papa John's.

A 15% return is given to your school. The teacher with the most orders wins a free pizza for the class. Return the receipt on the box to your teacher the following day. Please do not send in the actual receipt that contains credit card information--just the order on the side of the pizza box.  A reminder will go home on Tuesday.

The Health and Nutrition Committee recently conducted a survey to find out what improvements parents wished could be made to the current Sope Creek lunch menu. Through meetings involving Martha Whalen, the Health and Nutrition Committee and Cobb County Nutrition Services, we have been granted some healthy changes to our menu on a “trial basis”! From November 26th until December 21st, the following changes will be in effect: Milks with artificial sweetener (high fructose corn syrup) and artificial colorings (red and blue dyes) will not be served, in favor of natural milk. Soy milk will be available for purchase (a la carte) to nourish our lactose intolerant and dairy-free students. Yogurt will be available for purchase as an a la carte item. Please make every effort to encourage your students to purchase and consume the new healthier lunch items being offered during this period of time. You have a great deal of influence and the kids look to you for guidance. **Milk consumption is the County’s #1 concern. If milk sales drop off during the “trial period” we will NOT be allowed to keep the healthy changes. It is up to us now to prove to the County that we feel our students deserve the healthiest start in life which can be offered. Thank you so much for your support!

November 13th is Sope Creek Pizza Night at Papa John's.

A 15% return is given to your school. The teacher with the most orders wins a free pizza for the class. Return the receipt on the box to your teacher the following day. Please do not send in the actual receipt that contains credit card information--just the order on the side of the pizza box.  A reminder will go home on Tuesday.

Foundation News!

3rd Grade Parents,

Thanks to each and every family for your years of support of the Sope Creek Foundation.  We all count ourselves fortunate to be part of the Sope Creek community and are grateful for the wonderful educational benefits Sope Creek provides.

The Foundation is excited about the possibility of adding innovative learning to each and every classroom this year with SmartBoards.  Our goal is to raise $100,000.  However, to make this a reality for every Sope Creek student, we need 100% participation from every Sope Creek family.  No gift is too small.

The boards will installed in the grades with the highest participation.  Currently, 3rd grade has only 19% participation.  For those who have already given, we thank you! 

Won't YOU consider a tax deductible contribution to the SmartKids Campaign?

Yo Burstein and Lane Holt

Co-Presidents,  Sope Creek Foundation

3rd Grade Parents,

Thanks to each and every family for your years of support of the Sope Creek Foundation.  We all count ourselves fortunate to be part of the Sope Creek community and are grateful for the wonderful educational benefits Sope Creek provides.

The Foundation is excited about the possibility of adding innovative learning to each and every classroom this year with SmartBoards.  Our goal is to raise $100,000.  However, to make this a reality for every Sope Creek student, we need 100% participation from every Sope Creek family.  No gift is too small.

The boards will installed in the grades with the highest participation.  Currently, 3rd grade has only 19% participation.  For those who have already given, we thank you! 

Won't YOU consider a tax deductible contribution to the SmartKids Campaign?

Yo Burstein and Lane Holt

Co-Presidents,  Sope Creek Foundation

CURSIVE WRITING

I'm pleased to announce that many of our Greyhounds are now writing in cursive all of the time! We really have some expert cursive writers that put me to shame.

I'm very pleased with their cursive writing!  We will try to get all of the Greyhounds to join the cursive band-wagon! Way to go, Greyhounds!!

Week of 11/7/07

Remember:  There is no school on Monday 11/5 and Tuesday 11/6.

We will not read a story this week, but we will work on our supplemental library books for our guided reading. We will take our skills test and holistic reading theme test for the end of this theme. Here are the review spelling words for this week:

1. found

2. another

3. house

4. important

5. because

6. animal

7. being

8. against

9. better

10. example

11. during

12. change

13. five

14. inside

15. learn

16. almost

17. however

18. below

19. between

20. four

We will continue to practice our multiplication tables by playing games and working in small groups.  I was very pleased with their timed Test 1 in multiplication.  Our class average was 98%.  Way to go, Greyhounds.  We will take Chapter 7 and 8 Posttest. 

Homework for this week:

Look for Chapter 7 and 8 Pretest on Wednesday.  This is a handout that will be distributed Wednesday morning.  That is all the homework for this short week in math.  Please continue to study the times table.  Work on the ones that you do not know by heart!

IMPORTANT DATES:

11/5--NO SCHOOL

11/6--NO SCHOOL

11/12--11/16--F.R.E.D. WEEK.  WE HAVE A FEW STUDENTS (5) THAT DID NOT RETURN THIS SHEET.  IF YOU STILL WANT TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE WRITE IT DOWN ON A SHEET OF PAPER AND GIVE IT TO ME SOMETIME THIS WEEK. THIS IS NATIONAL TURN OFF YOUR T.V. AND READ A BOOK WEEK!

11/12--PTA BOARD MEETING @ 9 A.M.

11/14/07-- BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB FOR OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS--7:20 A.M. IN THE MEDIA CENTER!

11/21--11/23---THANKSGIVING BREAK! 

Papa John's Pizza Night

November 13th is Sope Creek Pizza Night at Papa John's.

A 15% return is given to your school. The teacher with the most orders wins a free pizza. Return the receipt on the box to your teacher the following day. Please do not send in the actual receipt that contains credit card information--just the order on the side of the pizza box.

November 13th is Sope Creek Pizza Night at Papa John's.

A 15% return is given to your school. The teacher with the most orders wins a free pizza. Return the receipt on the box to your teacher the following day. Please do not send in the actual receipt that contains credit card information--just the order on the side of the pizza box.

Carmen Deedy will visit Sope Creek soon!

Each year our wonderful PTA Education and Literacy Committee brings the talents of local authors, storytellers, and illustrators to the students of Sope Creek Elementary.  This year we will have local talent author Carmen Deedy visiting the third graders at Sope Creek.  Her performance is scheduled for December 13th!  Students will have an opportunity to purchase her books.  Look for a flyer coming home today about that special opportunity!  Don't miss out!

News from the foundation!

3rd Grade Parents,

Thanks to each and every family for your years of support of the Sope Creek Foundation.  We all count ourselves fortunate to be part of the Sope Creek community and are grateful for the wonderful educational benefits Sope Creek provides.

The Foundation is excited about the possibility of adding innovative learning to each and every classroom this year with SmartBoards.  Our goal is to raise $100,000.  However, to make this a reality for every Sope Creek student, we need 100% participation from every Sope Creek family.  No gift is too small.

The boards will installed in the grades with the highest participation.  Currently, 3rd grade has only 19% participation.  For those who have already given, we thank you! 

Won't YOU consider a tax deductible contribution to the SmartKids Campaign?

Yo Burstein and Lane Holt

Co-Presidents,  Sope Creek Foundation

Thank you to our volunteers

Thanks to Teagan's mom and Parker's grandfather for going on the field trip!  Thanks to Parker's grandmother for coming in on Wednesdays and helping out with our copies and sorting of the daily classwork.  Your help is greatly appreciated. Lastly, thanks to Teagan's mom for the fun Halloween activity.  The Greyhounds had lots of fun making their popcorn hand!  Thanks to all the volunteers for all their great help!  We can't do it without you!  Know that you are very much appreciated.