Ms. Chapin's Monkey Jungle of Excellence Learnings: Week of October 6th-10th



This will be a busy week of finishing up many different units and quite a bit of testing. Our learning goals are staying pretty much the same, as we finish units in Math, ELA, and Science.


Please make sure your child is bringing in a photograph or magazine/newspaper photo to share with the class.  Your child is going to share what the photo is mainly about and some details.   We're learning about main idea in Reading so this is a great real world connection.


Also, your child will be receiving his/her first home project on Friday that will be due next Friday!!! I will send the rubric with the project!!! They're to pick a job their parent does- why the job is so important and the duties of the job?  This will help students really connect to main idea and details.  Your child will be able to bring props and other items to share to show more about the parent they chose job.  The student will be allowed to create a powerpoint, pontoons.com project, video, poster or another choice to display this information.  If you choose to have your child do a video or powerpoint/powtoons presentation, please send it to my email.  Any questions, feel free and contact me on classdojo messages or in your child's planner. :-)

There will be a lot of testing this week as a result! It is very important that students are here on time and stay the whole day. So far this school year our class has only had TWO days where we were all present, on time, and no one left early. It is extremely hard for me to make up testing with students who were absent, so let's try very hard to be here and be ready to work from 9:40 - 3:50.

We are also working on a Commercial for a Farm that we are researching. This will continue all week. Busy....busy…busy!

Our spelling words for this week are a 1R Reading level skill 
since this is grade level which are: (spl, str)

1.splash

2. splatter

3. split

4. splinter

5. splat

6. speak

7. strap

8. straw

9. string

10. strange

11. strong

12. stripe

Our class library day is this Wednesday as always.   Please make sure your child has his/her library book that day to exchange.   Make sure your child is reading for at least 10 minutes each night.   This is our class power goal until your child starts receiving individual power goals and power words to work on at his/her READING LEVEL. :-)