I hope everyone had a great weekend!

I want to thank everyone who sent in their Cookie Dough fundraising money.

We had 3 students from our class turn in money.

Congratulations to Rachel Flowers for being our class top seller. :)

I would also like to encourage every family to be sure to send in $10 to join PTA.

I would love to have 100% participation from our class. If you haven't joined yet, think about it.

Our special math lesson with Mrs. Pam last week revealed that my students are smart cookies.

They had to pass information along with each student having a specific job. Each group created a monster based on very limited and specific directions. All groups did GREAT. Mrs. Pam will be back with another lesson in upcoming months.

This week we are celebrating Johnny Appleseed's Birthday. We will do several activities based on his story and apple legacy.

We will also conduct a basic apple tasting and we will graph our findings.

****If you have an interesting "apple based" recipe you would like to make and send in on FRIDAY we would love for you to make it. We will eat all special apple snacks sent in on Friday morning.

Just make enough of your special something for 20 people to taste it.

This week is also our UNIT 1 Testing week.

There will be NO spelling words, spelling homework or spelling test.

We will have NO reading story or reading story quiz. (no book will come home)

We will have NO language quiz.

We WILL have a Large Unit 1 Test that mixes all the reading, and spelling skills from our last 5 stories.

Reading Skills are:

Character and Setting

Main Idea and Detail

Realism and Fantasy

*We have discussed and applied these skills to our stories of the week over the last 5 weeks.

ON THE UNIT TEST... The students will see 4 new mini stories. Each story will have questions about the skills listed above.

ON THE UNIT TEST... There is a vocabulary section that has questions that the students will fill in the blank with the correct answer.

ON THE UNIT TEST... There is a phonics section. They will ask the students to find the word that has the same sound as the one they are given. The sound/spelling patterns will come from our last 5 spelling tests.

*We will review on Monday and take a little part of the test each day. The test will be taken on the computer.

We will have a Unit 1 Language test.

Language Skills are:

Identifying a sentence from an incomplete idea

Identifying the subject of the sentence (who is doing the action)

Identifying the predicate of the sentence (what is the action in the sentence)

Identifying a statement from a question ( . ?)

Identifying a command from an exclaimation ( . ! )

*We will review for a few days and then take the test.

Math is regular this week.

Science is more Balancing and Weighing with "food" this time.

This is our week for Music.

We will have it on Friday, as well as our regular computer lab.

On Friday we will also have a special Gifted Screening lesson.

We will NOT have counseling this week.

Have a great week. I think the fall weather is trying to show up. Keep your fingers crossed.

-Mrs. Mainor