Scholastic OCTOBER Orders! (DUE 10/15/12)

10/13/2012

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October Scholastic Book Club orders are ready online!  Click on the Scholastic image link to the left or HERE to be directed to our classroom ordering page.  Further directions can be seen below or HERE.  Thank you for supporting your child's love for reading and helping add to our classroom library!
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Cosmic Curriculum Close-Up

10/13/2012

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MATH:
  • rounding
  • estimating
  • add double-, triple-, and larger digit numbers
  • place value
  • XtraMath and IXL online

SCIENCE:  SOLAR SYSTEM
  • patterns in the sky, seasons, night and day, moon characteristics and phases
  • Coming Soon: Constellations
  • Vocabulary: star, axis, rotation, revolution, phase, lunar eclipse, telescope, constellation
We are making great progress through our curriculum and soaring through our learning targets!

LITERACY:
  • Comprehension:  story elements and retelling
  • Accuracy:  compound words
  • Fluency:  Voracious reading, smooth and expressive voice, choosing just right/good fit books, 5 finger rule
  • Expanding Vocabulary:  using context clues to infer meanings of unknown words

GRAMMAR:
  • pronouns, plural pronouns
  • simple subjects and predicates
  • editing

WRITING:
  • journaling, editing, revising
  • 6 Traits-ORGANIZATION & SENTENCE FLUENCY:  basic story structure; repeated catchphrases
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NEW Weekend Challenge!

10/6/2012

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Earn up to FIVE bonus Class DOJO points by completing this week's NEW Weekend Challenge!  Type your journal entry and save the file.  Use the assignment form below to  upload and submit a journal entry. 

Choose one of the two topic options below:
1)  Do you love fall?  If so, write an entry detailing THREE reasons why you love it.
2)  What will you be for Halloween?  Describe THREE reasons why you chose that costume.

To earn all FIVE bonus points you must have the following:
-Introduction stating the main idea and hooking your reader
-3 reasons/details explained (see prompts above)
-Edit your writing for spelling and grammar!

Upload your journal entry file here:

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Innisbrook UPDATE

10/2/2012

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It's NOT TOO LATE to earn Innisbrook money for the school!  
The deadline for orders has been EXTENDED to OCTOBER 8th!!!
Indian Trail receives 50% of all revenues 

Every student participating will receive free ice cream.  
In addition, the classes with the most revenue and the most participants will EACH be rewarded with a class party.  Right now we are in 3rd place.   Help us win a class party from the PTO by earning more money for our school!

Thank you for your support of our FANTASTIC Indian Trail PTO.




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