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Week of November 30, 2009 Second and Third Grades

This week, we are working on various puzzles.  We are excited to learn the identity of the person who stole our chocolate recipes!

Second graders finish sharing their flip book reports and third graders begin sharing their PowerPoint mystery reports.

Homework:  Some students need to finish puzzles started in class.  Be thinking about the mystery treat you will be bringing for our celebration of the end of our unit.

Second grade celebration will be December 11 and third will have theirs on December17.

Weeks of November 30, and December 7, 2009 Fourth and Fifth Grades

We miss our fifth graders these weeks due to their Jekyll Island trip and the Wednesday group's performing arts field trip.

We are finishing up projects and presenting our PowerPoints on our Who Am I? bridges.  We are also finishing building our bridges for our Great Bridgebuilding Competitition.

Homework:  Some students need to put finishing touches on their PowerPoints and vocabulary assignments.  These should be done by the week of December 8!

PLEASE TAKE NOTE

As many of you know, these are our short days as the Target team frantically tries to test eligible 1st, 3rd, and 5th graders.  We are also trying a new system of testing and teaching at the same time, which means that we are doing our best to give the students a day filled with as much thinking and creating as we possibly can in the available time.

Thank you for your patience and flexibility.  We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

Week of November 16, 2009 Second and Third Grades

  We are continuing with our shortened schedule due to testing.

This week we find out about another note, this one written in pen!  It's up to our detectives to figure out which pen was used to write the note.  Chromatography helps us make this discovery.

We continue with our PowerPoints in third grade and sharing our flip books in second.  We also work on other puzzles as we can.

Homework:  Some students will need to finish up their PowerPoint presentations.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Week of November 16, 2009 Fourth and Fifth Grades

We are continuing with our shortened schedule due to testing.

This week we concentrate on our "Who Am I?" bridge PowerPoint presentations and finish up as much as we can.  They are really looking great!

We are working in our bridge building teams and are looking forward to our competition the week before Winter Holiday break.  Who will build the strongest, most attractive bridge for the least cost?

We are sorry that we cannot have our Wednesday kids until the last week before break, but we know they will enjoy their Jekyll trip and field trips.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Homework:  Some students need to work on PowerPoint presentations and bibliographies.

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9, 2009 FOURTH AND FIFTH: PLEASE NOTE

ALL WEDNESDAY FIFTH GRADE TARGET CLASSES FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17, WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY!

Week of November 9, 2009 Fourth and Fifth Grades

This week, classes begin late due to Target testing.  This schedule will continue until after the Winter Holiday break.

This week, we continue with our "Who Am I?" bridge PowerPoint presentations.  They are really looking great!

Fourth graders will plan their bridge building, while fifth will finish their planning and begin building their bridges for the "Great Popsicle Stick Bridge Challenge."  Some groups may also do Hands On Equations or thinking puzzles if time.

Homework:  This will vary by class depending upon what each class can accomplish.

Week of November 9, 2009 Second and Third Grades

As you are aware, this week is another shortened day week due to testing.  This schedule will continue until after the Winter Holidays.

This week, we continue to work on our PowerPoint book reports in third grade and we share our flip book reports in second.  We continue working on our special "chocolate mystery" and work to try to narrow down our suspect list even further.  If we have time, we will work on Hands On Equations and other thinking puzzles.

Homework:  Some students may have homework depending upon what they were able to finish in class.  This will vary according to class.

Week of November 2, 2009 Second and Third Grades

Due to the testing schedule, our day is shortened.  Students begin with a Math activity and continue with our current book report projects. 

We are continuing with our mystery about the stolen recipes.  We practice our decoding skills.  We are eliminating suspects and are getting excited about being close to solving this case!  Some of us may solve some WhoDunIt mysteries as well.

Week of November 2, 2009 Fourth and Fifth Grades

We miss our fourth graders this week due to the teacher planning day.

Due to our new schedule, we are working on various different activities in each teacher's class, as needed by the students.  All of us are working on word problems in Hands on Equations to build our thinking skills as we learn to set up equations from word problems.

We are all working on our PowerPoint presentations about our "mystery" bridges.  They are really looking great!  We can't wait to share them with our classmates.  We are also beginning to plan and build our bridges for the "Great Popsicle Bridge" competition.

Homework:  Depending upon teachers, students may be working on their vocabulary assignments or correcting their pretests.