Pumpkins make everyone think of fall and fall holidays. Room 100 is having their own kind of fun with pumpkins as we prepare for Parent Teacher Conferences this week. Notes were sent home with your child. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend.
During conferences you are invited into our pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin and learn more about your child. Room 100 is feeling rather festive.
Red Ribbon Week is the nation's oldest and largest drug prevention program.
Students and teachers decorated their classroom doors this week to support the anti-drug message.
Room 100's Decorated Door
Celebrating Red Ribbon Week teaches kids that living without drugs is the best way to live a happy life.
This year our writing curriculum will include the Step Up to Writing program with a focus on descriptive writing. A descriptive essay describes a person, object, or event so vividly that the reader feels like he or she could reach out and touch it. Descriptive writing paints a picture.To help students understand the notion of vivid description, they started the year writing a brief description of a person, someone they know quite well. Students wrote an autobiographical sketch. After students completed the writing, they had fun with a second sketch. Students drew their self-portraits.
Parents, you will want to check out our bulletin board at fall conferences. Students are excited to share their first writing piece.
Room 100 added a little sweetness to observe National Dessert Day, a day to celebrate all things yummy.
Fifth grade students are preparing for the district writing assessment, and today’s prompt was sweet. Since it is National Dessert Day, students were asked to write about a favorite dessert. What does it look like? How does it smell and taste? They were asked to describe a dessert so clearly the reader could see it, smell it, and almost taste it as well.
There were plenty of reasons to celebrate after the papers were collected. Students are becoming descriptive writers. We heard plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" as students shared their paragraphs.
Happy National Dessert Day!
IDIOMS can be the most confusing part of any language. Idioms are sayings that have hidden meanings. The expressions don't mean exactly what the words say, like “cool as a cucumber” has nothing to do with food, but refers to a calm person. A number of English idioms revolve around food and names of food items.
Room 100 had fun creating an idiom bulletin board.
Students discovered the origins of some food idioms are a piece of cake to figure out; they just had to use their beans. Other idioms were so bizarre students went nutty trying to decipher them. There are so many idioms, we would be out to lunch if we tried to list them all, but here are a few that are the cream of the crop. Enjoy our slideshow.
Grace recently had the opportunity to visit her brother who is stationed in the country of Korea. Today Grace took classmates on a virtual field trip to discover and explore an environment outside the classroom.
It was a fascinating trip and we thank Grace for the time and effort she invested in her presentation. The slide show and souvenirs helped classmates visualize and experience the Korean culture. The part the students most enjoyed was no doubt, the Korean treats that came with chopsticks.
This year your child may use Spelling City at home. Spelling City is a website that helps students learn their weekly spelling and vocabulary words while having fun at the same time.
As a teacher, I will put up my weekly spelling lists on Spelling City and your children can review the words, and play spelling and vocabulary games with their words to reinforce the learning process.
Here’s how to help your child master his or her spelling and vocabulary words:
Simply go to my homepage at https://www.spellingcity.com/Full05/ You can bookmark this URL on your computer to make it easy for your child to access the class word lists!
Many kids enjoy building their spelling skills with Spelling City. Please encourage your children to spend about twenty minutes, two nights in a row before their weekly test. Let’s work together as a team to ensure that your child masters the spelling lists.
Happy Spelling!
