MRS. MANNING`S CLASS PAGE
Welcome to our class page! I hope the information below is helpful.
 WEEK OF: October 6, 2008
I hope you are planning to enjoy the FALL FAMILY NIGHT on Thursday evening, October 23. We are now accepting your family fun items for our class basket for the silent auction that evening. Please send these to school by Monday, October 20 so Mrs. Jones will have time to assemble our basket for that event. Remember that anything that can lend itself to an evening of family fun together is appropriate.
MONDAY we will begin using AC MATH which is an independent, computer generated learning tool. The children are looking forward to this challenge. When a lesson is completed, your child will bring their problems and answer sheet home. If they have scored below 80, I will be seeing them for individual help. If their score is above 80, I would like them to take the time to correct mistakes at home so that when similar problems occur on their work they can be successful with them. Thank you in advance for helping your child to make needed corrections and get on the right track with the various problem areas. These corrections do not need to come back to school. I will know they have been taking place by the progress your child makes.
Each week we will focus on a school-wide word relating to our GREAT EXPECTATIONS program. This week's word will be HONESTY. Ask your child to share the definition and the concept of this week's quote later in the week.
 SPECIAL ACTIVITIES THIS MONTH:/
FUND RAISER orders and PICTURE orders are due at this time.
It is so exciting to see what is happening with my students and the pleasure they are finally discovering in reading. "Real Reading" is beginning to happen for many of the children. Keep reading daily with your child and encourage independent reading with locked lips as well so that this can continue to develop. I will be beginning BOOK-IT READING at the end of this month to help bring a new incentive to reading. Supplemental Readers need to be returned as soon as they are completed so that new ones can be issued. Some children are on their fourth or fifth book while others have not yet returned the first one. READING MUST BE PRACTICED AT HOME DAILY FOR YOUR CHILD TO DEVELOP SKILLS AND REACH HIS/HER FULLEST POTENTIAL IN READING. If your child chooses to just use library books, that is fine. Please return the reader so that it does not become lost.
REMEMBER TO EXPECT THE TAKE HOME FOLDER EACH DAY AS PART OF YOUR CHILD'S DAILY RESPONSIBILITY. It also should return to school EACH day.
 READING:
This week we will be reading stories to help us understand when sharing and working together makes sense. The Phonics Reader title will be "Herb Helps Out". Stories from our text book will be "Turtle's Race With Beaver" and "The Secret Life of Ponds". Our Open Court story for Friday will be "The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg".
 SPELLING:
Spelling lists will be sent home on Monday of each week. We will have a trial test each Thursday, and our final test will be on Friday.
This week's words will be: tapping, spinning, running, stopping, hopped, dripped, tripped, sipped, grinning, begging, hopping, dripping, hugging, sitting, flopping, getting, hitting, dropped, squawking, enormous.
This list reviews the rule of doubling the final consonant before adding suffixes to words with a CVC letter pattern.
Using the games at the bottom of this page will be one way your child can study each week's words. Writing the words is another important way to study.
 LANGUAGE/HANDWRITING:
In Language we will continue our practice and drill using Guide Words. We will also be putting the skill into practice using the guide words in dictionaries to locate words. Praciting this skill by the end of the week at home in dictionaries or phone books will be helpful to your child.
 MATH:
Concepts for this week's lessons will be: counting dimes and pennies, addition and subtraction fact families, sums of 8 and 9, identification of geometric shapes alike in only one way, routine assessment, creating and reading a bar graph, counting by 5's and using tally marks.
Your child needs to know his/her week day wake-up time for our graphing experience.
 SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
We will begin a new Science unit this week about sounds. We will study what causes them, learn how they move, and do an experiment to see how sound travels.
Thank you for taking the time to touch base with our CLASS PAGE. It makes a great difference for your child when you are involved daily with his/her learning!!! Remember there needs to be "work at home" daily in Reading, Math, Spelling and reviewing daily papers.
MRS. MANNING
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