The Weber Weekly

Social Studies this week has been all about citizenship in the community.  Your child should be able to identify and describe characteristics of good citizenship, describe ways in which citizens make positive contributions to their community, and demonstrate good citizenship by taking responsibility for personal actions, respecting and being fair with others, and being honest.  We are going to continue to learn about communities over the next couple of weeks.  If you're interested in speaking to our class about your job in the community, we'd love to have you!  Please email me and we can choose a date that fits both of our schedules.   

 

We read an historical fiction big book this week called Rashee and the Seven Elephants.  Our comprehension focus was predicting.  The children learned how to use their own background knowledge to predict, scan the text to make predictions, keep track of predictions, compare predictions with others, and revise predictions.  We're also working continuously on fluency during shared reading.  The children learned how to read longer, meaningful phrases with appropriate expression and heed all punctuation in the text.  

 

Did your child teach you the adjective song and dance yet?!  They look adorable dancing to the bunny hop while singing about adjectives!  Everyone has been working extremely hard at putting fun and exciting descriptive words into their writing.  

 

I'm really proud of how awesome everyone has been during Daily 5.  I'm happy to report that we've met all of our goals and built our stamina up to 20 minutes in all five areas.  The kids are really loving center time!  I'm also happy that our listening center was restocked thanks to the Johnson and Rodriguez families!  The kids and I appreciate your generosity with the new CD players and batteries.  :)   

 

Have you seen the school calendar for next week?  Wow, we're going to be busy!!  Here's what's on the agenda:

• Wednesday (and every D Day) - Library
• Wednesday 5:30 pm - Watch DOG Kick-Off
• Thursday 5:00-7:00 pm - Haunted Trails Party
• Friday 8:00 am - Mystery Cafe' hosted by the reading specialists in the Media Center
• Saturday 8:30 am - "Run For Your Life" 5K

Finally, I'd like to end with a little bit of good news/bad news.  The good news is that I'm the Grand Prairie representative for the Language Arts Common Core.  Hooray!  The bad news is that because of this role, I will be out of the building next Thursday and Friday for meetings.  Boo!  I really hate being out of school and away from the kiddos, but duty calls.  At least I will still get to see most of the class Thursday night at Haunted Trails.  My meetings are at the District Office and I will  have access to my school email.  If you need to get in touch with me, please feel free to email me at jweber@psd202.org.  I'm confident that the kids will do a great job with our guest teacher while I'm away.