1. Mrs. Jowers’ Class News August 14, 2015

2. Mrs. Jowers’Class News Sept. 25, 2015 Oh my goodness! I can’t believe that I will be writing an October newsletter next week! Where has the month gone! This week we practiced all of our safety drills. The kids all did a great job, especially on the lock down drill. I was very proud of them. We also had our author visit this week. Mrs. Simoneau was wonderful! Next week we will have Bookmobile on Wednesday again, so make sure you bring back those books! We are also sending home information for our first field trip! So look for that as well. This week we wrapped up our first unit in the reading series! Every unit concludes with a group research project. These projects were lots of fun for all of us. I have taken pictures and will post them on the website for all to see. There was also a lot of testing. I broke it up over several days, so it wouldn’t feel so overwhelming Next week we will be back to normal, starting our second unit. So, check the back page for our vocab, high-frequency and on level spelling lists. Math Madness Our focus this week was on Addition Number Stories. We started the week reading and solving number stories and by the end of the week we were creating our own for others to solve! On Thursday and Friday of each week, we have a Math Workshop time which allows us to practice skills we’ve been working on within our unit in small groups around the room.

3. Mrs. Jowers’ Class News Oct. 23, 2015 Thanks to all our wonderful parents who were able to come to our field trip today. It is great to have so many people participate and it turned out to be a really nice day! Thank you also for signing up so quickly for conferences as well. I am looking forward to seeing everyone. Next Wednesday morning we will start the day in our classrooms and then begin the parade around 9:00. The party will follow the parade. I can’t wait to see all the costumes! Oct. 26,27 & 29 Conferences Oct 28 – Class Parties Nov. 9 – No School In reading this week, we continued our study of animals. This week we focused on comparing animal babies to their parents. We have learned a lot about animal families. Next week, we will begin our fifth week of the unit, but we will not finish it until the following week. So when spelling words go home on Monday, we will not test until Tuesday, Nov. 3 rd. Fire Prevention Month We enjoyed our visit today to the Fire Station in honor of Fire Prevention Month. This week, and into next, we are looking at the job of a firefighter, ways different fires are fought, how firefighting has changed over the last few hundred years, and reminders of how we can prevent fires and stay safe. Now is the month to check those smoke detectors, talk about your family’s safe meeting place, and practice a fire drill in your own home.

4. Mrs. Jowers’ Class News What an exciting week with the Royals big win and parade! It was really a nice way to relax between our end if the unit testing this week. Thank you to everyone for participating in conferences this year. It was great to here from everyone. Thank you also to all our Halloween party helpers. The party went very smoothly and was enjoyed by all! Next week we will be back on schedule with reading and spelling, so our new word lists are on the back of the newsletter. Remember there is no school on Monday. And we will be doing some activities to celebrate Veteran’s Day next week as well. Have a great weekend! This week we finished up unit two with animal research group projects. It has been fun studying animals for the past six weeks. We will continue to focus on science in our next unit as well, as we will concentrate on what we have learned about the world around us. We ended our week practicing skills during center time from Unit 3. Our focus continued to be subtraction strategies, but we’ve also been working hard on Counting Coins and patterning with Frames and Arrow problems and Function Machines. We played a Unit review game of Jeopardy and will test early next week. Be watching for the Unit 4 Parent Newsletter to come home that will highlight skills, games and activities that you can do at home to support upcoming skills. Keep encouraging your child’s progress on building fact power through xtramath.org. xtramath.org.

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