Welcome to Mrs. Schaffer's Page

      I am enjoying getting to know your child. I hope that this site will provide an additional and helpful communication between us.  I hope you'll check it weekly to see what your child will be doing in class.  In addition, always feel free to contact me at school (487-1243). I would be glad to meet with you before school to answer any questions or concerns that you may have.  I am usually at school by 7 A.M. each morning.  Again, I truly enjoying teaching your children. Please do not hesitate to let me know if I can answer any questions or concerns you may have.

             Please encourage your child to read at least fifteen minutes every day.  This helps them to become better readers by acquiring sight word recognition and fluency.   

Things to remember:

1.  Mondays- newsletter sent home

2.  Wednesdays- Progress reports are sent home.  Please review your child's work, sign, and return the top sheet only.

3.  ** VERY IMPORTANT---Please remember to send a note if your child will be going home a different way. 

4.  Please send a note if your child will be leaving early.  This will enable me to have your child ready to leave at that time.

Scheduled Weekly Tests:

Monday- Spelling pretests

Wednesday- Reading vocabulary test

Thursday- Spelling context clues test

Friday- Spelling test and Reading test
 

The following is an overview of what our class is currently studying:

Math  

Unit 3

Chapter 16

• write numbers as decimals and fractions 
• find equivalent fractions
• compare and order fractions with unlike denominators
• write fractions in simplest form using common factors or the GCF

Reading/Language Arts:

Please encourage your child to read daily. We will be reading selections from the Scott-Foresman Reading series.

Week of December 1- 5:

Reading Story- "The Jr. Iditarod Race"

Skill- Main Idea and Supporting Details

Vocabulary words- announcer, cargo, delays, injuries, obstacles, overtakes, skids, wilderness, checkpoint, collision, musher, spectators

found, surround, tired, warn, exhausted, radios, potatoes, tomatoes, themselves, loaves, hoofs, lives, videos, cliffs, leaves, pianos, tornadoes, halves, beliefs, heroes

*****Please encourage your child to study social studies and science daily. This includes the textbooks and the previews/study guides. Please make sure your child does not just memorize the study guides. In order to be successful on the tests he/she needs to know and understand the material.*****

Social Studies

Unit 4

Chapter 7 Lessons  1 & 2

• Henry Ford and the assembly line
• Prohibition
• Women in the workforce in the 1920's

Science

Unit 3

Lessons 3 & 4

• Characteristics of mixtures
• Properties of matter

                                           Special Area Schedule:   

Monday -  8:10 - 8:50  Music

Tuesday -  8:10- 8:50  P.E. (Don't forget to wear your tennis shoes!)

Wednesday - 8:10- 8:50  P.E. (Don't forget to wear your tennis shoes!)

Thursday - 8:10 - 8:50   Art (Keep sending the boxtops!)  

                 10:30 - 11:10    Too Good For Drugs

Friday - 8:10 - 8:50   Library

Congratulations to the following students who earned awards for the 1st nine weeks:

"A"  Principal's Honor Roll

 Spencer Beaumont, Mason Bradley, Lydia Martin, 

Sara Watson, Whitney Whisenant

"A and B" Honor Roll

Kinsley Humpries, Clifford Samagaio, Nixon Thao,

Alexis Wilson

"B" Honor Roll

Stephanie Freeman, Mitchell Hood, Anna Reynolds,

Dallas Wilson

Bobcat Award------- Whitney Whisenant

Terrific Kid---------Spencer Beaumont

Character Awards------Emily Brandt, Mitchell Hood

AR Points

Please encourage your child to read and take AR tests weekly.  This is a test grade for Language Arts.

Point values….

10 points = 100 A+

  9 points = 95 A

  8 points = 90 B

  7 points = 85 B-

  6 points = 80 C

  5 points = 75 D

  4 points = 70 D-

  3 points = 65 U

  2 points = 60 U

Important Dates:

December 2 - Movie Night/Santa Shop 6-8 P.M.

December 5 - Ice cream Friday

December 11 - Skate Night 6-8 P.M.

December 11 - Arts Choral Expo 6:30 P.M. at Gaffney High

December 16 - Zaxby's PTO Fundraiser 6-8 P.M.

December 19 - Christmas Party

December 19 - Half day- Dismissal at 11:00

December 22 - January 2 - Christmas Holidays

January 5 - Students return to school