WEEK of October 29-November 2nd

Dear Parents,
A big thanks goes out to all the parents who made our class-earned party special with veggies, fruit, treats and drinks. Thank you Susan Walton for buying Subway Sandwiches for the class!
* This Wednesday, as you know, is the big day. Our party will follow the Halloween Parade at about 9:00 a.m. We look forward to the festivities. In addition to the fun, our class will learn about the History of Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos. Thank you Sheila Hurley for organizing the big shindig.
* In Reading we will be starting a novel together in RTI entitled Sign of the Beaver. Our 10 vocabulary words will come from this book. During RTI we will learn the words and they should practice them at home. Go the Spelling Blog at: http://mrsweetspelling.blogspot.com
* In American History we will be teaching each other about colonies with the posters and lessons we learned  together in our groups.
* When our class goes to the computer lab we will be researching a colony for a group "Museum Exhibit Project" This will take the place of a test on the various colonies. Students will have to do 3 components: writing, art, and a graph/diagram/timeline.
* Throughout the week we will do a Reader's Theater when we share our "Spooky Stories" with the lights out and the microphone turned up. a
* In art we will be creating Dodecahedron Pumpkins, and Dia De Los Muertos Skulls.

That's it for now!
Mr. Sweet

HOMEWORK MONDAY
Reading-Finish Chapter 2 in Sign of the Beaver
Finish Cereal Box Project
Math - Finish HM CH. 9 - Lesson 1(p.77)

HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Reading-Finish Chapter 4 in Sign of the Beaver by Friday
Finish Cereal Box Project
Math - Finish HM CH. 9 - Lesson 2(p.79)
Practice Newsteam Speech-Due Friday

HOMEWORK THURSDAY
Reading-Read 25 minutes
Vocab/Spelling-Study for Test
Practice News Team Speech
Math-Finish Saxon Pre-Test 5A + Ch.9Lesson 3 in HM
USE "NICOLOKYE WAY!"

WEEK OF OCTOBER 22-26th

HOMEWORK MONDAY
Read 25 Minutes A.R.
Writing -Work on Cereal Box Project (Due next Wednesday, October 31st)
Math-Saxon L24 odds/Ch 8 Lesson 2 HM (72, 73)
Newsteams-Choose News Article-Due Tomorrow (newspaper, magazine, online news source, etc)
Print, fill out news team form
Study Spelling Words
Friday-CRAZY ELECTRONICS DAY
SIGN AND RETURN PERMISSION SLIP FOR FIELD TRIP

HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Read 25 Minutes A.R.
Writing -Work on Cereal Box Project (Due next Wednesday, October 31st)
Math-Saxon L25 evens/Ch 8 Lesson 3 HM Wkbk
Newsteams - Write the summary for your Newsteam-Due Thursday
Study Spelling Words
SIGN AND RETURN PERMISSION SLIP FOR FIELD TRIP

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Read 25 Minutes A.R. (AR DUE DATE: FRI, NOV. 9th)
Writing -Work on Cereal Box Project (Due next Wednesday, October 31st)
Math-Saxon L29 odds/Ch 8 Review Test
Newsteams - Write the summary for your Newsteam-Due Thursday
Study Spelling Words
SIGN AND RETURN PERMISSION SLIP FOR FIELD TRIP

HOMEWORK THURSDAY
Read 25 Minutes AR
Math-Finish Pre-Test Saxon
Finish Spooky Story Final Draft
DRESS UP! Bring electronics 
 
 

CLASS UPDATE
* Today our class started the "RTI Reading Team Time" and it was a big success! Students love their teachers and it should be a big success in helping students reach their full potential in reading comprehension.
* In Math our class will be adding fractions and mixed numbers in HM. I will post a couple Educreations lesson links on the sidebar.
* In American History we are working on group projects on the Colonies.
* We are finishing our final drafts of our spooky stories this week.

Also, our class earned their first class party by filling in our Awesome Apple Chart. This means that on Friday, October 26th, our class voted on the movie: Sandlot. This movie is rated PG 13 for some minor language. I have shown it to 3 other classes. If you do not want your child to view this movie, please reply to this e-mail and I will give them an alternative activity.
The class voted on CRAZY ELECTRONICS DAY. This means they can dress up, (HALLOWEEN WARMUP), in anything they want and bring their favorite electronic device. We will still take our tests in the morning, but have fun afterwards.
I NEED A PARENT WHO CAN GO PICK UP A FEW PLATTERS OF SANDWICHES AT SUBWAY ON FRIDAY MORNING at about 11:30 a.m. I will pay for the sandwich tray from some of our class funds. Please let me know if you can do this.
Also, I usually have parents bring in some treats, plus fruit, drinks and veggies. Are there any volunteers? I know we have a plethora of food coming on Halloween already, but the class earned this party!

That's it for now!
Mr. Sweet

WEEK OF OCTOBER 15-19th

HOMEWORK MONDAY
Reading-Read 20 min. + Summary
Math - Finish Saxon L22 + Ch. 7 Review Test
Spelling-Study mistakes and write each missed word 2 times in blue pen (cursive)

HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Reading-Read 25 min. + summary
NO MATH-Ch. 7 Test today ;-)
American History-do p. 35 + 38, 39 in wkbk
Spelling Test on Thursday this week
Parent Drivers: Fill out insurance forms

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Reading-Read 25 min. + summary
MATH-Finish p. 71+72 HM Wkbk
Finish ELA wkbk pages-83-93-Due Thursday
Spelling Test on Thursday this week
Parent Drivers: Fill out insurance forms

HOMEWORK THURSDAY
Reading-Read 25 min. + Work on Cereal Box
Finish Spooky Story Rough Draft
Bring Lunch and be on time for Field Trip!






Dear Parents,
*This week we have our field trip on Friday, October 19th. For those that are driving, I need you to have all your insurance forms filled out in the office by Wednesday. We will be leaving at 7:55 so please be on time if you are a chaperone, or driver. I will provide directions to the parking structures in downtown San Jose. Please bring your ticket they give you and the Tech validates a portion of the parking fee.

 DRIVERS
Trevor C. (6 students with seatbelts)
Nico H.(6)
Kye H. (5)
Victoria N. (5)
Tobin R. (6)
Ian H. (4)
Emily C. (3)
Subs/Chaperones
Tara Z.
Nathan W.
John A.
Lauren N.  (Dad will meet us there)
 

*Also, our class did very well overall on the Science test averaging an 81%!

*Grading-From now on I will be giving number grades on assignments instead of letter grades to align with the report cards.
5=A
4=B
3=C
2=D
1=F

*Finally, the Reading Group rotations (RTI) begins next Monday.

Have a great week,
Mr. Sweet

Room 12 motto: "Where we use our hearts and minds well."

CLASS UPDATE
In reading we started a new story entitle "La Bamba" from the reading anthology in HM. It is a wonderful story about a boy in a talent show. We listened to La Bamba and Oh Donna and will see a Youtube video of this amazing musician

In Writing we start our "Spooky Stories" where we learn to use dialog and similes

In American History we are learning about the original colonies starting with the Spanish Colonies. Our Spelling Vocabulary comes from Social Studies this week.

In Math we will be wrapping up our Unit on Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Common and uncommon Denominators. On Tuesday we will have a test.

WEEK OF OCTOBER 8-12

HOMEWORK MONDAY
READING-A.R.-Read 25 minutes
Writing-Finish "Hobby" paragraph
Math-Finish p. 65+66 (HM Ch. 7 Lesson 3)
Science-Study for test using study guide
Correct and Return work in blue pen for a better grade

HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Reading-Optional
Math-Finish L21 odds Saxon
Science-Study for Test!
Begin/Plan out Cereal Box Project
Read through Science World by Friday-Quiz

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
READING-A.R.-Read Science World
Math-Finish p. 72 (HM Ch. 7 Lesson 3 Review)
*SEE MATH REVIEW LESSON ON RIGHT FOR SHORTCUTS TO THESE PROBLEMS*
Science-Finish Science Wkbk p. 3-47 in wkbk (classwork that may not be finished)
Due Friday
Finish Element Trading Cards (Due Friday)

THURSDAY
READING-A.R.-Read Science World + A.R.
Math-Finish HM Ch. 7 Lesson 4 Review)
*SEE MATH REVIEW LESSON ON RIGHT FOR SHORTCUTS TO THESE PROBLEMS*
Science-Finish Science Wkbk p. 3-47 in wkbk (classwork that may not be finished)
Due Friday
Finish Element Trading Cards (Due Friday)
Finish Perfect Paragraph Final Drafts


Field Trip Drivers/Chaperones (Children's Names)
Chaperones may come too! $4 for IMAX movie
Field Trip: Friday, October 19th at 7:55 a.m.

Trevor C. (6 students with seatbelts)
Nico H.(6)
Kye H. (5)
Victoria N. (5)
Tobin R. (6)
Ian H. (4)
Emily D. (3)
Subs/Chaperones
Emily C.
Tara Z.
Nathan W.
John A.
Lauren N.  (Dad will meet us there)




ROOM 12 UPDATE

Dear Parents and Students,
I look forward to our Parent-Teacher Conferences this week. Please remember to fill out and return the parent input forms because these help inform our time together. I have received about 1/2 of them from the class.

In class there will be no Spelling/Vocab Homework this week, but we will be doing a lot of exciting things in Room 12...

First, we will be reading about the amazing life of Michelle Kwan in our HM ELA Book.

In addition, we will be reviewing our Science Unit of Study on the Periodic Table to prep for the test on Wednesday. Hopefully your child has completed their study guide that I posted last Tuesday.

We are writing about our favorite hobby this week while focusing on organization and details.

Our class will be choosing News Team stories this week.

There will not be as much homework this week so I hope students will take that extra time to do a little bit each night on the Cereal Book Project. See the pic below for an example.

That's it for now!

Mr. Sweet