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Week of 2/25/08

Do doubt about, the Greyhound parents are the BEST!!! Thank you so ver much for the gift cards, cards, lunches, pies, and plants.  Mrs. Wood and I felt very much loved and appreciated.  We are so thankful that we have incredible students and wonderful parents, too!  It is truly our pleasure to teach your children.  They are a special group of talented individuals.  Thanks to all the moms that helped us on Friday and throughout the week.  The PTA provided a wonderful lunch for all the teachers at Sope Creek.  We had a very nice lunch.  Thanks to all parents who helped us this week and made us feel so special.  We truly can't do all of this without your help.  We are truly thankful and humbled by this show of love! 

Our presentations on Famous African Americans/Presidents were just simply wonderful! Mrs. Wood and I got goosebumps listening to the presentations.  Boy, some of our Greyhounds went above and beyond!  EVERYBODY, did a fabulous job.  I will be burning DVDs for all the parents so that you may enjoy the presentation. The posters and the handouts are magnificient.  I will be photographing the posters and putting the pictures up on the blog.  Thanks to all the parents who worked with their child and to those boys and girls who did this project on their own.  I am so PROUD OF ALL THE GREYHOUNDS.  This was a tough assignment and you guys did it! 

We just completed the chapter on Fractions and we learned so much, too!  We did a great job on the test, too.  This week we will concentrate on decimals.  We will figure out tenths and hundredths.  We will also add and subtract decimals.  Here is the homework for the week:

Monday:  RW 108 RW 21.1 Fractions and Decimals

Tuesday: RW 109 RW 21.2 Tenths

Wednesday: RW 110 RW 21.3 Adding Decimals

Thursday:   RW 111 RW 21.4  Subtracting Decimals

We will also have a Challenge handout.  I will distribute it on Monday.

It will include CW 108, CW 109, CW 110, and CW 111

We will begin a new story this week.  Nature's Great Balancing Act.  This is story is straight from our anthology textbook.  We will concentrate on /a/ and /be/ words. We will also work on summarizing the literature, vocabulary from the story, and comparing and contrasting. 

Here are the spelling words:

1. about

2. adults

3. amount

4. available

5. avoid

6. believe

7. between

8. after

9. again

10. been

11. ago

12. along

13. asleep

14. become

15. besides

16. tame

17. population

18. energy

19. ground

20. affects

SCIENCE:  THE STUDENTS WILL BEGIN SCIENCE THIS WEEK WITH MRS. LANCE. THEY WILL LEARN ABOUT GEORGIA'S DIFFERENT ANIMAL HABITATS.LOOK FOR STUDY GUIDES TO GO HOME AND CHECK THE PLANNER FOR TEST DATES.

IMPORTANT DATES:

FEB. 26-- PICTURE DAY (CLASS PICTURE AND INDIVIDUAL PICTURES)

FEB. 29-- CHUCK E. CHEESE TGIF 3 P.M.

MAR. 4---CAREER DAY 8:30--11:30 A.M.

MAR. 15---FUN RUN...ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF SMARTBOARDS.  THE COST IS $20.00. EVEN IF YOU DON'T RUN, YOU WILL GET A COOL T-SHIRT.

MAR. 18TH---MARK YOUR CALENDAR---VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION LUNCH. PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING...IF YOU HAVE READ TO THE CLASS, DONATED ITEMS TO OUR CLASSROOM, HELP OUT BY BEING A COPY CAT OR ANY OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS YOU HAVE DONE FOR THE SCHOOL OR ME, PLEASE ATTEND THIS LUNCHEON. I WILL SEND OUT A FLYER AS A REMINDER.

Week of 2/20/08

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THE WONDERFUL GIFTS, CARDS, CANDY, AND BUBBLE GUM!!! I JUST LOVED MY VALENTINE'S GOOD WISHES.  GREYHOUND FAMILIES AND STUDENTS ARE THE BEST!

Because we will end up with a short week, we will have some math review pages on fractions this week.  Please study your multiplication and division facts.  We will have a timed test this week. Here is the homework for this week:

Wednesday:  CW 20.1 and CW 20.2

Thursday:  CW 20.3 and CW 20.4

These are handouts.  I will pass them out Friday 2/15/08

We will not start a new story this week, but will review some concepts from last week's story---Wolves.

Here are the spelling words for this week:

These are review words from previous weeks:

1. order

2. open

3. once

4. often

5. number

6. she

7. they

8. through

9. together

10. though

11. thought

12. while

13. white

14. hole

15. whole

16. without

17. usually

18. turn

19. until

20. upon

NOTE:   YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO MONDAY OR TUESDAY'S HOMEWORK. PLEASE DO ONLY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY'S HOMEWORK.

Science:  We will begin science once again with Mrs. Lance.  She will be teaching the Georgia habitat's and Georgia animals.

IMPORTANT DATES:

2/18 AND 2/19--NO SCHOOL!

2/20--BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB!

2/21- OUR PROJECTS ARE DUE!! BE SURE TO BRING IN YOUR POSTER AND BE READY TO GET INTO CHARACTER. I WILL BE VIDEO TAPING THIS EVENT.

2/26--SIX FLAGS READING IS DUE!

DON'T FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR THE FUN RUN. EVEN IF YOU CAN'T COME, GET THE COOL T-SHIRT!

Week of 2/11/08

We had a fabulous homework completion week.  EVERY Greyhound turned in the homework packet.  Way to go, Greyhounds.  This was a hard unit in math.  Metric and Customary Units of Measurement can be a difficult concept to learn, but we got through it! 

We will begin to study Fractions this week.  Soon we will add and substract them too!  Here is the homework for the week:

Chapter 20 in the Math Textbook:

Monday:  RW 101  Parts of a Whole 20.1

Tuesday: RW 102  Parts of a Group 20.2

Wednesday:  RW 103 Add Fractions 20.3

Thursday:  RW 104 More Adding of Fractions 20.4

Friday:  Turn in all homework for the week!

We will read a non-fiction story from our textbook called--Wolves.  We will watch a video about wolves, too.  The spelling pattern are words that end with /ed/ /ing.  Here are the spelling words for the week:

1. attacking

2. called

3. defending

4. scared

5. threatened

6. warning

7. wagging

8. letting

9. running

10.  moved

11. coming

12. saved

13.  picked

14. pulled

15. shopped

16. wolves

17. creature

18. survive

19. exist

20. extinction

This is the last week of social studies.  Make sure you bring in the play dough that Mr. Dunn created.  The students will be making landforms!  Also, be sure to check the binder for social studies study guides and test dates!  BE SURE TO WORK ON YOUR PROJECT FOR THE PRESIDENT/AFRICAN AMERICAN PROJECT. 

IMPORTANT DATES:

2/13--PTA DAY @ THE CAPITOL

2/14--SAINT VALENTINE DAY TEA

2/15--- AR PARTY...CUT OFF FOR AR POINTS WILL BE 2/13.

2/18-- PRESIDENT'S DAY---NO SCHOOL

2/19--TEACHER WORKDAY---NO SCHOOL

2/20--BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB

2/21-- AFRICAN AMERICAN/PRESIDENT PROJECT DUE--YOU CAN DRESS UP AS YOUR FAMOUS AMERICAN!   ALSO SOPE CREEK CELEBRATES ITS 30TH B-DAY!

SIGN UP FOR FUN RUN.  IT WILL BE SAT, MAR. 15TH FORM 9-11 A.M. THERE ARE CLASS BASKETS AVAILABLE FOR SILENT AUCTION. VISIT THE SOPE CREEK FOUNDATION WEBSITE. www.sopecreekfoundation.org

WE WILL HAVE A VALENTINE CARD EXCHANGE IN THE CLASSROOM.  WE WILL ALSO GRAPH, SORT, AND IDENTIFY DIFFERENT HEARTS IN MATH!  WE WILL HAVE VALENTINE'S DAY ACTIVITIES IN THE MORNING.  I HAVE CREATED A CLASS LIST SO THAT YOU MAY WRITE THE STUDENT'S NAME ON EACH VALENTINE.  CLICK THE THE HOMEWORK LINK.  YOU WILL FIND THE CLASS LIST THERE!

Week of 2/4/08

Because we have been practicing for our performance since last week and will continue to practice on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, we will not have time to do a story this week.  Therefore, there will not be any spelling words this week.

Look for the Famous President/African American project under the homework---click on the homework and you can find the directions. Please be sure to let me know who you have chosen by Feb. 5th. This will count as one major grade in Language Arts!

We are studying the customary and Metric units of measurement from Chapter 15.  We need to review and go over a few concepts.  Measurement and conversions are difficult and we need to make sure your Greyhound masters this concept. Therefore, we will spend this week reviewing .

LOOK FOR A MATH PACKET FOR HOMEWORK THIS WEEK TO GO HOME. IT WILL INCLUDE MULTIPLICATION/DIVISION WORKSHEETS.

                                PRACTICE YOUR MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION FACTS...THERE WILL BE A TIMED TEST THIS WEEK ON BOTH OPERATIONS! 

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Mr. Dunn continues to teach from Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 from the textbook.  Students are learning about the different types of maps---physical maps and political maps.

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

  2/4---PTA BOARD MEETING  @ 9 A.M.

2/6--ANOTHER EARLY RELEASE DAY---@ 12:20..PLEASE MAKE THE APPROPRIATE ARRANGEMENTS AND LET ME KNOW.

2/9-- Winter Talent Show

2/7--3RD GRADE FREEDOM EVENING PERFORMANCE @ 6:30.  PLEASE PLAN ON ARRIVING AT 6:30.  WE NEED TO HAVE THE CHILDREN HERE BEFORE 7 P.M.  THEY ARE TO WEAR RED, WHITE, OR BLUE SHIRT WITH JEANS.

2/16--The Mansour Center 995 Roswell Street Marietta.  Free seminar--Mothers Raising Sons--from boys to men. If interested, go to the website www.singleparentconnection.net

2/18 and 2/19--NO SCHOOL!

2/21--FAMOUS PRESIDENT/AFRICAN AMERICAN PROJECT DUE!

2/20- Birthday Book Club

2/21- Sope Creek’s 30^th Birthday

Tuesday, 2/26/08- 1, 3, 5 Spring Pictures from Lifetouch!