October 14, 2011

Save the Date!

Mrs.

DeWys Declares Bentheim Elementary School~Volume 11, Issue 6

Classroom Helps

Thank you so much to those of you who have already sent in classroom supplies to help us out! We all really appreciate having these small yet very necessary items at our fingertips. At this time, we are still in need of more antibacterial hand sanitizer. Every other need has been met! Thanks, again!

What’s New in Resource Room? This has been sort of a crazy week in our room. We’ve had MEAP testing for upper elementary students, changes in schedules for all students (due to the MEAP), and we welcomed two new students to our class! Wow! It was crazy, but it also seemed to fly by! The upper elementary students are working hard on their MEAP tests, which I really admire because I know these tests can seem long and tedious to them. I have also really been impressed by the flexibility of our younger students as they haven’t always been able to come down to the room for the times that they are used to seeing me. Keep up that good work and flexibility for one more week and we should be finished!

Mrs. DeWys

MEAP Testing October 11-20, 2011 Testing for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will take place during these days.

Fundraiser Pick Up October 19, 2011

Fall fundraiser items can be picked up on this date from 3:30-5:30.

P/T Conferences October 24/25, 2011

I look forward to joining you in your conference with your child’s general education teacher.

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MRS. DEWYS DECLARES-VOL. 11, ISSUE 6 OCTOBER 14, 2011

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Young 5s/First Grade Reading: This week, we continued working on blue book and yellow book phonemic awareness skills, Zoophonics, and our Daily 5 routines. We also began our first guided reading books. Writing: We drew pictures and wrote about our illustrations. Math: We worked on concept board skills and using touchpoints to assist us in basic addition.

3rd Grade Reading: This week we continued practicing our

Daily 5 routines and yellow book phonemic awareness activities. We also began reading the books Ten, Nine, Eight and Cookie’s Week for guided reading.

Writing: This week, we continued drafting our writings about our leaf animals. Word Study: This week we learned about “Surprise Words” that we remember how to spell by using our eyes.

Math: We are continuing to work on double and triple digit addition and subtraction with regrouping.

Fourth Grade Reading : This week, we practiced Daily 5, started a guided reading book called 5 True Dog Stories, and took the MEAP.

Writing: We edited, revised, and published our writings about being 4th grade teachers, and we took the MEAP.

Word Study: This week, we learned about the /er/ sound that is in words such as germ or verb. We discussed that the /er/ sound can be spelled with er, ir, or ur.

Math: We continued to spend time reviewing two digit multiplication and three digit subtraction with regrouping.

Second Grade Reading: This week, we continued yellow book phonemic awareness skills and worked on our Daily 5 routines, as well as beginning to read the book Don’t Eat the Teacher as a guided reading group. Writing: We drew pictures and wrote about our illustrations. Word Study: This week we started a new unit with new words. We also learned about the in and an chunks and how words with those chunks at the end often are rhyming words.

Fifth Grade Reading: This week, we continued reading Island of the Blue Dolphins. We also took the MEAP reading test. Writing: We continued drafting our new writing project on the Secret Knowledge of Grown Ups, and we took the MEAP writing test.

Word Study: This week, the students started a new unit with new words. We also learned that certain sounds can have more than one spelling. An exmple is that the /oo/ sound as in moon and school can also have a different sound as in took or look. Math: We are working hard to review long division and making great progress on it. We are also working on problem solving involving multiplication and division.