Week of April 27

It's almost May! I can hardly believe the year is coming to an end. We still have LOTS to do and many fun activities planned. This week also starts our last round of TESA. :)
We will be testing on Tues-Friday of this week. Please make sure to be well rested and eat a good breakfast.
Other important dates coming up:

5-1 Volunteer dessert. If you didn't receive an invitation and you have volunteered this year, please join us from 1-3 in the east family room for cupcakes and student entertainment.
5-2 Awesome 3000. T-shirts and packets will need to be picked up by parents (not at school) the address is on the entry form.
5-6 Mrs. Judd (former Myers student teacher) will be with us to do an ESOL practicum. She will be here through June and will most likely be teaching the Oregon Trail
5-14 Celebration of students

Homework:
This week I will only be giving spelling and reading homework. I don't want to overwhelm the kids with more work during a testing time:)

Spelling words: Assignment (put them in ABC order and write in cursive)
Spelling list 4-27

someone
remember
already
reading
people
following
alone
once
letters
bottom
strong
school
began
first
check
you’ll
greats
there
then
fall
important
than

Challenge:
advanced
historian
specific
incredible
succeeded
participate
comprehension
character
sensitive
obvious

Have a great week!
Mrs Hoopes

week of Aprill 20

Hope you are enjoying the nice weather! We still expect the students to keep up with homework, even though it is tempting to play outside all evening. We have our last round of state testing coming up next week. All students will be taking the 3rd opportunity to either pass or improve their score. Please make sure your child is well rested and has a good breakfast next week. Our time to test is 9:00-9:50, which is a great time for kids. We will also have a guest speaker on Friday to show us artifacts and tell us stories from the trail. The orchestra students will be on a field trip Friday afternoon, we'll miss you!
Homework for the week:
Monday: Spelling Use each of the words in a sentence, or create a story.
Spelling words: week of April 20, 2009


carefully
sounds
their
build
pictures
through
something
examples
glass
father
rock
across
gold
tall
form
because
surface
after
always
night
kind
stand

*1. urban : rural :: solids :
opinion : view :: persuade :. steady : stable ::
4. rough : coarse :: prosperous :

Tuesday:Math practice
Wed:Writing
Thursday: Reading

Have a great week!

Week of April 13

Hopefully you all had a great weekend! We have many things coming up this week.
Friday will be our field trip to the Polk County Museum and the Rock and Mineral show. The cost to students is free, however if they would like to bring a few dollars for the rock show they can buy small items. The battle of the books final Myers round will be this Wed afternoon. The 4-5 team will also be presenting awards for the last report card this Wed.
We are wrapping up our how to projects this week, and will be learning about Oregon Counties next week.
This weeks spelling words:
there
could
children
suddenly
which
different
their
center
began
itself
either
field
first
although
special
everone
stay
boats
might
***wouldn't
section
wonder
include
describe
electric
Monday: Spelling Use 10 words in a story
Tuesday: Math problem solving page
Wednesday: Reading
Thursday:Reading/ writing
Hope you have a great week!

We had a great time at OMSI, thanks to all of you who were able to help out. We are going to be quite busy this month.
4-10 Bowling trip 8:45-11:45 free
4-17 Rock and mineral show/ polk county museum free(chaperones $2)
4-24 Pioneer presentation in the family room
4-27 Symphony ($3) 8:45-11:00
These are great trips and presentations for our students. Hopefully you can join us for one. Please make sure if you sign up to volunteer, you have already completed your background check. Thanks

Spelling words for the week:
through
pattern
gone
distance
watch
although
walked
water’s
someone
enough
there
again
everyone
their
its
half
animal
American
beautiful
instead

*challenge
various, garden, result, practice, difference, maybe, reason, village, island, weight, doesn't
Assignment: Choose 2 activities (sentences, definitions, groups, syllables, abc order, cursive, story)
Tuesday: Math
Wednesday: Finish how to speech and practice
Thursday: Final copies of speech poster

Thanks for all you do!