Currently, each child should be reading each night and completing a reading log that will be due each Friday. The reading material can be a novel, magazine or newspaper as long as your child is reading each night.

Your child will also be completing Daily Oral Language sentences, or DOLs each day as a warm up. After we have completed ten sentences, we will have a quiz on the sentences. As a way to study, your child is asked to rewrite the sentences the night before the quiz. I will award five extra credit points for each child that does this assignment.

We are still working on  literature circles. Your child has been  be given a novel that he or she will be expected to bring home and read in nightly. This novel can be used for their reading logs each week. All students should be working on contracts 4 and 5. Following the novel, we will begin a research paper that is based on a topic from your child's novel. Please look for information in the coming weeks.

ALl students will need his or her file folder and 4x6 note cards very soon. Please make sure the file is large enough for the 4x6 cards.

1st: Outsiders

2nd: Freak the Mighty

3rd: Fever

4th: Either The Giver or Surviving the Applewhites

A reminder that reading logs are due each Friday with a summary of six to eight sentences for each entry. Many students are not getting these in and receiving zeroes for them. PLease encourage your child to complete these weekly.

Please help make sure that your child knows and understands the 12 Power Words listed below.

Trace list in steps

Analyze break apart

Infer read between the lines

Evaluate judge

Formulate create

Describe tell all about

Support back up with details

Explain tell how

Summarize give the short version

Compare tell similarities

Contrast tell differences

Predict tell what will happen next

Please note that students are not allowed to be checked out after 3:00 PM.

When a student is tardy to school...

3rd tardy ASD/Morris will contact parent

5th ASD/Admin will contact parent

7th Sat School/ Morris will contact parent

10th Sat School/ Meeting with social worker & Admin

Tardy to class...

3rd ASD/ Teacher will contact parent

5th ASD/Admin will contact parent

7th Sat School/ Morris will contact parent

10th 2 days ISS/Admin will contact parent

Thank you for your support. Angie Huntley