Capturing Conversations

In writing, students continue to gather ideas on how to grab a reader's attention. We discussed how good writers use dialogue in their writing. The students need to listen and observe conversations that are happening around them. Suggested places for this assignment include listening at home, school, at a store, a restaurant, or a family gathering. They need to record parts of these conversations in their writing notebooks. Again, the purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate how using dialogue in a piece of writing can make it more interesting.

Updates/ Reminders in 5H this week:

* CogAt, cognitive abilities test, will be administered beginning tomorrow. The students will also be tested on Thursday and Friday. Testing will last about a half hour each day. Over these next few days, please make sure your child is eating a healthy breakfast, and is getting a good night's sleep.

*Thanks to everyone who has turned in the blog permission form and behavior form. If you have not signed these papers please do so as soon as possible and return them to me. These forms were in your curriculum night packet. The blog permission form can also be found under the documents tab on the blog.

* Book Orders are due on Friday, September 28th. This includes online book orders too.

Curriculum Night Tomorrow

It has been really fun getting to know your children over the past few weeks! I enjoyed reading the "Getting to Know You" forms. It really helped to give me insights on your children. We are looking forward to an exciting year of learning new things!

I want to remind all parents that Curriculum Night is tomorrow night from 6:30-8:00pm. Ms. Walton will give opening remarks at 6:30pm. The first session, in your child's classroom, is from 7:00-7:30pm. The second session is from 7:30-8:00pm. I hope to see all of you there! I will be sharing important information about the curriculum, classroom routines, and behavior.