Mrs. Welch and Mrs. Ries
Welcome You to Room 111
I’d like to introduce you to the Room 111 team. While Room 111 is ‘home’ to Mrs. Welch, it is only ’home base’ to Mrs. Ries. Mrs. Ries works with the special education students in kindergarten through second grade. We “team teach”. This means that she teaches a part of each day. When Mrs. Ries is not in our room Mrs. Kincaid will be available to work with anyone who needs help.
It is a pleasure to keep you aware of what is going on in our class through our website. Each week all the homework will be listed on this site so feel free to check up on your kids. Homework for the week will be changed after school by the last school day of the week. Any scheduled holidays, institute days or field trips will be noted with the homework. These should also be in their assignment notebooks.
Below are links to information that may be of interest to some people but not others.
Links:
Philosophy and Expectations for Room 111
Class Rules
Special Arts Schedule
Math Facts
- SIGN UP at www.Scholastic.com/bookclubs. On the parent page, click the “Don’t have a User Name and Password?” link and then register for your own username and password. When prompted, enter the one-time Class Activation Code shown above. This code ensures that your order is sent to me.
- SELECT the books you’d like to order from over 500 titles available online…and take advantage of online-only specials and discounts.
- SEND your order to me online by the due date. Books will be delivered directly to our classroom, as always.
IMPORTANT EVENTS THIS WEEK
May 17th, 2013 | 
Author: Progress Reports went home on Friday, May 17, 2013. Please sign and return them with your child so he/she may earn a reward.
It is particularly important at this time of year to encourage the children to stay focused on their studies and to do their work with the same vigor they applied in September. There are many fun things planned for the end of the year but they are privileges for those who do their work. Students who do not want to do their work during this quarter will be making it up while the rest of us are having fun.
Due to a particularly intense cold season this year, we are quickly running out of boxes of tissues. Donations will be greatly appreciated.
Compass Learning/Language Arts and JiJi Math are still assigned for homework. Students should spend at least 20 minutes at a time on these interactive websites. I will be able to see who is doing it and who isn’t. If they can’t do it at home for any reason, the public library allows you to sign up for computer time. It doesn’t matter if they go on for separate 20 minute blocks of time or one long block of time, as long as the total matches the assignment.
If you are wondering when things are happening at school, like Picture Day or when Progress Reports come out, be sure to click on “calendar” on the home page for this website.
BOOK ORDERS: If you would like to order books from Scholastic through me, the orders must be in by Friday, , 2013. Please send cash. If you must use a check, make it out to me as I will be ordering on-line using my credit card. If you plan to order on-line using the information on this website please do so by noon on Sunday, , 2013. That is when I plan to finalize the order.
Week 27 in Room 111
Phonics and Spelling: We will be reviewing several concepts.
Comprehension Skills and Strategies: Fiction and Nonfiction
Grammar: Capitalization and Punctuation
Writing: Autobiography
Research Skills: Book Report/Review
Math: Unit Ten – Decimals and Place Value
We are now in the “home stretch” in the race to finish this year as winners. Please keep motivated and working hard. There are many fun things at the end of the year that are only available to those who are doing their work. Otherwise we use those “fun” days to catch up the students who are behind.
There are five math concepts the third grade teachers want the students to be able to do easily when they enter third grade: tell time on an analog clock; identify place value of ones, tens, hundreds and thousands; round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred; add and subtract two digit numbers with regrouping; and count, add, subtract, and make change with money. We have been working on these off and on throughout the year. They are also part of what I have asked everyone to practice every night (see math post below). Now I will be quizzing the class on these concepts on the weeks we do not have a ‘timed’ fact quiz. Like the timed quizzes, only the current grade will count.
Homework for the Week of May 20 – 24, 2013
MONDAY
Math Home Link 10.5
Practice All Facts
Concept Quiz Friday
Grammar Worksheet
Read out loud for at least 15 minutes.
Write about your day for 5 minutes.
TUESDAY
Math Home Link 10.6
Practice All Facts
Concept Quiz Friday
Grammar Quiz Tomorrow
Read out loud for at least 15 minutes.
Write about your day for 5 minutes.
WEDNESDAY
Math Home Link 10.7
Practice All Facts
Concept Quiz Friday
Spelling Test Tomorrow
Read out loud for at least 15 minutes.
Write about your day for 5 minutes.
THURSDAY
Math Home Link 10.8
Practice All Facts
Concept Quiz tomorrow
Read out loud for at least 15 minutes.
Write about your day for 5 minutes.
FRIDAY
Math Go on JiJi
Practice All Facts
Timed Test Next Friday
Weekend Writing
Read out loud for at least 15 minutes.
Write about your day for 5 minutes.
NO SCHOOL MONDAY
MEMORIAL DAY
Story of the Week: Helen Keller Biography Unit
SPELLING WORDS
church
whisk
sturdy
restless
tough
bandage
whinny
damage
mission
saddle
rough
tickle
Challenge Words
confession
except
comfortable
Book Orders
Book Club Order Due Date: Friday, , 2013 to school; NOON Sunday, , 2013 on line
Online Ordering Information
Book Club Ordering Link: https://orders.scholastic.com/L92H9
Class Activation Code: L92H9
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