Jones’ Journal

Volume 1, Issue 3 September 3, 2010

What’s New? IMPORTANT INFORMATION

September Character Trait As the year is progressing, we are seeing some

is Responsibility!! SOARing habits forming in the classroom. We really see
our students working hard to earn stars and SOARbucks.
Individual Ownership of Actions
Please encourage your students at home as well at
Weekly Quizzes &Work home.
A couple of changes and reminders below:
Monday-Editing Quiz
DLR nightly homework is to be completed in
Friday ~ Math Check Up,
cursive. Students have a “review sheet” of cursive
Spelling Test in their binders. This is great practice and cursive
Daily- 15-20 min. will be required 2nd semester in ALL subjects.
reading/DLR Remember to look through your child’s daily or
Friday folder. All papers that receive a 69% or
Future Plans! below (D or F) are signed and returned to their
teacher.
Sept 3- Fundraiser Kick Off 9:15 Parent signatures are required to verify students
Grade Check have completed their assigned reading.
Sept. 6-No school
Sept 17-Fundraiser ends Soaring Success…
Marbles: 19 marbles earned, 6 to go!
Website of the Week:
SOAR bucks: Nathan Hirsch was a big winner in our
www.spellingcity.com
monthly drawing for SOARING efforts! Nice work!
Visit this website to create
Merit Award Winners: Sydney Anderson
fun, interactive ways to
Ryan Cram
study spelling words!

What’s Coming Up?

Reading: Checking for understanding ( dialogue, punctuation, context clues)

Writing: Personal Narratives continued, Parts of Speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Working With Words: laugh, off, until, encouragement, richest, trouble, couple, young, tough, cousin

Prefix: en- Suffix: -est, -ment Blend: /ou/

Math: Place Value, ordering and comparing numbers, writing and reading large numbers

Science: Rocks unit