<p style="text-align: left"><em>Dear Parents/Guardians,</em></p>

<em>On Wednesday, we will have our first quarter report card pick-up.  I would love if your child attended the conference with you.  I sent home a letter last Thursday with different times that you could choose from for the conference.  Please look in your child’s planner for the time that I would like to meet with you.  If you do not have a time in your planner, please go to the front door bulletin boards and pick a time that you would like to meet.  If you cannot meet on Wednesday, please let me know what day you are available.  Next week, the only day I am not available after school is Thursday. </em>

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<p align="center"><span style="color: #000000"><em>Instruction for the Week</em></span><em> </em></p>

<em>Literacy:</em>

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<em>During Guided Reading, your child is working on the strategy summarizing.  Students will read their books and we will work together on ways to improve their summarizing of the text.  Students will learn how to use post-it notes to write the main ideas and put it together on paper.  We will also tie this into our Writer’s Workshop where they are learning the Writing Process (Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing) to improve their expository writing. </em>

<em>Students are working on Word Work activities during the Daily 5 as well as other literacy activities that they have learned from the beginning of the year. </em>

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<em><span style="color: #ff0000">Mathematics:</span></em>

<em><span style="color: #ff0000">Students will learn about area, perimeter, circumference, and diameter this week.  We are also ending our 3<sup>rd</sup> unit this week.  Instead of giving the test on Friday, I will provide review pages over the weekend and have a review day.  Students will have the Math Assessment on November 23<sup>rd</sup>. </span></em>

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<em>Science:</em>

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<em>Students will continue to explore hot and cold water through investigations.  They will also be introduced to the Scientific Method.  This will only be a brief introduction to prepare them for the Science Fair that is coming up in the future. </em>

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<em>Please feel free to email me any time you have questions or concerns. </em>
<em>Have a wonderful week and see you on Wednesday!</em>

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<em>ALSO:  If students brought home homework this weekend, it was due to not completing the assignment in class.  After revising and editing their drafts, students were supposed to publish their papers.  This means no skipped lines, neat, and spelling errors should be at a minimal.  If children are having difficulty with spelling, students should be using a dictionary to help them (a real one-not the computer).  Students will be assessed on how to use a dictionary in the future. </em>