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(what they need to do).\r\n\r\nMath:  You should have received the Unit 1 parent letter.  Please refer to it as needed.  We will complete lessons 1.4-1.7 this week.  Homework Monday through Thursday.  Did your child grade their work?  We will do this each day.\r\n\r\nScience:  Our first unit will be Water.  We will start this week.  Expect a parent letter from this unit this week.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  These first few weeks, our work will focus around our “Friendship” unit, bringing in healthy school community and classroom environments.\r\n\r\nArt:  This week our lesson is titled “New Clothes”- Focus-a tactual texture may be made into a visual texture in a rubbing.  I think (at least now) Art class will be on Wednesday.\r\n\r\nSnacks:  We will have snacks this year.  Please bring in enough for at least 32 students.\r\n\r\nMany thanks, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview','','','2009-09-14 15:12:59','2009-09-14 20:12:59','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=168',0,'post','',0),(169,9,'2009-09-14 15:12:57','2009-09-14 20:12:57','Dear Parents,\n\nWelcome to third grade.  We had a busy first week.  Hope your child came home with lots of stories.  As soon as the Ray School web site is up and running, I will be sending home a “blog” every Monday-a weekly schedule, letting you have a good idea of what to expect.  Please, if you have any questions write me or come in and we can talk.  I would like to send home the weekly bulletin only over the internet-we will work on saving paper, recycling, etc, through out the year and this will help.  If you do not have access to a computer, please let me know.  Thanks.\n\nAttached is our tentative schedule.  I have made a copy for you and one for your child to keep where you think it would be useful.\n\nRemember, Open House is next Thursday, September 23, 2009 at 7:00.  Please come to learn  all about your child’s 3<sup>rd</sup> grade year.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are working on a mini unit about Friendship.  This week we are reading a story together and will take a quiz on the story on Friday.  The story is “Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend.”  What can your child tell you about nouns and pronouns?  We are reviewing vowels this first month and we are discussing “just right” books to read.  We will write each day at school-either in our Journal or our Writer’s Notebook.\n\nHomework:  Read each night for 30 minutes.  Make a book jacket-due Friday.  I will go over the rubric with your child. 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a cut and paste technique used by artists.  Title: Calico Animals.  If you have, I could use...small pieces of fabric, buttons, rickrack, and other trimmings.  Gift wrapping paper is an item that several of the art projects use.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We are working on mapping skills-aerial photography and street mapping.  What can your child tell you that they learned today.\r\n\r\nHope to see you tonight, at our PTA meeting and this Wednesday, at 7:00 for Open House.\r\n\r\nThanks, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview 9-21-09',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-9-21-09','','','2009-09-21 16:13:23','2009-09-21 21:13:23','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=171',0,'post','',0),(172,9,'2009-09-21 15:13:24','2009-09-21 20:13:24','Many thanks for all the forms and classroom fees coming in.  If you have not paid the $85.00, please do so soon-thanks.  I have most of the forms in, but please get them all in as soon as possible-the emergency form, Internet form, Media form, free/reduced lunch form-thanks.\n\nWe have another busy and productive week planned.  Routines are becoming second nature and we are organizing our day so as to be very productive!  I hope to see you TONIGHT at the first PTA meeting, but just as important, this Wednesday for our OPEN HOUSE at 7:00.  I will go over all curriculum, schedules, expectations, etc and hopefully answer any questions that you have!  Please come!!!  We\'ll get the year off to a great start!!  Thanks\n\nLanguage Arts:  Our Accelerated Reader Program is up and running-did your child take a test today on a book that they are reading?  Please ask them what book they are reading this week.  We are also discussion diffent kinds of fiction (what can they tell you), different kinds of nonfiction, keeping a record of what they are reading, and guidelines for working together in large and small groups.  We are also writing in our Writer\'s Notebook and in our Journals.  (learn more at open house!!!)','Weekly Overview 9-21-09',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','171-revision','','','2009-09-21 15:13:24','2009-09-21 20:13:24','',171,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=172',0,'revision','',0),(173,9,'2009-09-21 15:46:53','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','Weekly Overview September 9, 2009',0,'','draft','open','closed','','','','','2009-09-21 15:46:53','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=173',0,'post','',0),(174,9,'2009-09-21 16:12:50','2009-09-21 21:12:50','Many thanks for all the forms and classroom fees coming in.  If you have not paid the $85.00, please do so soon-thanks.  I have most of the forms in, but please get them all in as soon as possible-the emergency form, Internet form, Media form, free/reduced lunch form-thanks.\n\nWe have another busy and productive week planned.  Routines are becoming second nature and we are organizing our day so as to be very productive!  I hope to see you TONIGHT at the first PTA meeting, but just as important, this Wednesday for our OPEN HOUSE at 7:00.  I will go over all curriculum, schedules, expectations, etc and hopefully answer any questions that you have!  Please come!!!  We\'ll get the year off to a great start!!  Thanks\n\nLanguage Arts:  Our Accelerated Reader Program is up and running-did your child take a test today on a book that they are reading?  Please ask them what book they are reading this week.  We are also discussion diffent kinds of fiction (what can they tell you), different kinds of nonfiction, keeping a record of what they are reading, and guidelines for working together in large and small groups.  We are also writing in our Writer\'s Notebook and in our Journals.  (Learn more at open house!!!)\n\n \n\nsorry for the delay...my computer crashed.  our computer guy Russ just came and got it going again....\n\nHomework for language arts :\"what\'s My Bag?\"  Ask your child.  I went over the assignment very clearly.  Hope you are reading this and they can tell you!\n\nMath:  Lessons 1.8-1.11.  Homework Monday through Wednesday.  We will do homework together on Thursday in class.  No school on Friday for the kids.\n\nArt:  Collage making - a cut and paste technique used by artists.  Title: Calico Animals.  If you have, I could use...small pieces of fabric, buttons, rickrack, and other trimmings.  Gift wrapping paper is an item that several of the art projects use.  Thanks.\n\nSocial Studies:  We are working on mapping skills-aerial photography and street mapping.  What can your child tell you that they learned to','Weekly Overview 9-21-09',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','171-autosave','','','2009-09-21 16:12:50','2009-09-21 21:12:50','',171,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=174',0,'revision','',0),(175,9,'2009-09-21 15:39:20','2009-09-21 20:39:20','Many thanks for all the forms and classroom fees coming in.  If you have not paid the $85.00, please do so soon-thanks.  I have most of the forms in, but please get them all in as soon as possible-the emergency form, Internet form, Media form, free/reduced lunch form-thanks.\r\n\r\nWe have another busy and productive week planned.  Routines are becoming second nature and we are organizing our day so as to be very productive!  I hope to see you TONIGHT at the first PTA meeting, but just as important, this Wednesday for our OPEN HOUSE at 7:00.  I will go over all curriculum, schedules, expectations, etc and hopefully answer any questions that you have!  Please come!!!  We\'ll get the year off to a great start!!  Thanks\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Our Accelerated Reader Program is up and running-did your child take a test today on a book that they are reading?  Please ask them what book they are reading this week.  We are also discussion diffent kinds of fiction (what can they tell you), different kinds of nonfiction, keeping a record of what they are reading, and guidelines for working together in large and small groups.  We are also writing in our Writer\'s Notebook and in our Journals.  (learn more at open house!!!)','Weekly Overview 9-21-09',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','171-revision-2','','','2009-09-21 15:39:20','2009-09-21 20:39:20','',171,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=175',0,'revision','',0),(176,9,'2009-09-28 11:57:57','2009-09-28 16:57:57','Welcome to a busy, focused filled week!  We have had a wonderful morning and beginning of the week!  Many thanks.\r\n\r\nThanks for the snacks coming in.  Please remember to pay your 85.00 classroom fee-I have ordered Time and Spanish Magazines and the bills are due!!  Thanks.  It is okay to pay some now- even $20.00 will help to pay your child\'s magazine subscriptions.  Thanks.  You can pay the rest later.\r\n\r\nPicture day is Wednesday.  We are all going to try and wear our Ray t-shirts each Friday for gym day and for Friday Spirit days!!!  Have your child wear green and white if they do not have Ray logo!!!!\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We are  our read aloud - The Trumpeter Swan by E.B. White.  Ask your child about this story-can they make a prediction about what might happen?  Our shared reading is Angel Child, Dragon Child, which we started today.  We are working on the vowel \"E\" and patterns we see in reading (_e_, ea, ee, _y, ei, etc.)  We will take a test on Angel Child, Dragon Child this .  We are writing in our Journal and our Writer\'s Notebook.  Ask your child about these.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Your child should take home their Open Court book (Angel Child, Dragon Child) to practice reading the story fluently.  L.A./Social Studies/Science  homework-Your child will have their Time Magazine with them.  They will read two of the articles, writing a paragraph (each paragraph should be at least five sentences long) on each article.  The first article \"An Artic Passage (page 2), should be read and they should answer the \"Think!\" question (which is also on that page).   The question reads \"Does it help or hurt the environment if more ships use the Northeast Passage?\"  Explain your answer.  The second article, on page 6, \"The Big Garbage Patch\" should be read and they should write a persuasive paragraph, giving their opinion on \"Who is responsible for the world\'s oceans?  Both of these articles involve water (a nice connection to our Science  unit on Water!)  These two paragraphs are due on Friday.  Please have your children return to school each day with the Time Magazine, as we will use it in class (at least on Thursday.)   Thanks.  Please help your child with sentence structure.  Thanks.  Can they come up with a fun, powerful first sentence?  For extra credit they can label and color the World Map that they have with them.  This map should be turned in on Friday with their paragraphs.\r\n\r\nAs always, your child should be reading each night. \r\n\r\nMath:  We will complete lessons 1.11-1.14 this week.  We will have our test on Unit 1 on Friday.  Your child will have their Math Journal 1 with them on Thursday.  This book must be returned on Friday.  The test will cover money (how would you show 65 cent, etc. using coins), telling time, name-box collections (write 10 names for number 27 -we have been doing this in class) and completing a bar graph.  Reviewing homework assignments are always a good review. \r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday through Wednesday, worksheets, study for the test Thursday evening using their Math Journa 1.\r\n\r\nScience:  We will investigate surface tension of water using a soap and salt solution of water.  We will also estimate how many full drops of water can fit on a penny.  We will set up our Science Lab Book for recording our pictures and our observations.\r\n\r\nArt:  We will be finishing our Calico Animals (if not already finished) and this weeks lesson is titled \"Just Look\" - Analysis of a painting for its aesthetic properties.  What will your child be able to tell you about a painting entitled Two Cats, by Franz Marc?  Ask them after Wednesday!\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  See above under language arts.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nHave a Great Week!  Again, thanks for all your help.\r\n\r\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview September 28, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-september-28-2009','','','2009-09-28 11:57:57','2009-09-28 16:57:57','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=176',0,'post','',0),(177,9,'2009-09-28 11:32:55','2009-09-28 16:32:55','Welcome to a busy, focused filled week!  We have had a wonderful morning and beginning of the week!  Many thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are continuing our read aloud - The Trumpeter Swan by E.B. White.  Ask your child about this story-can they make a prediction about what might happen?  Our shared reading is Angel Child, Dragon Child, which we started today.  We are working on the vowel \"E\" and patterns we see in reading (_e_, ea, ee, _y, ei, etc.)  We will take a test on Angel Child, Dragon Child this Friday.  We are writing in our Journal and our Writer\'s Notebook.  Ask your child about these.\n\nHomework:  Your child should take home their Open Court book (Angel Child, Dragon Child) to practice reading the story fluently.  L.A./Social Studies/Science  homework-Your child will have their Time Magazine with them.  They will read two of the articles, writing a paragraph (each paragraph should be at least five sentences long) on each article.  The first article \"An Artic Passage (page 2), should be read and they should answer the \"Think!\" question (which is also on that page) The question reads \"Does it help or hurt the environment if more ships use the Northeast Passage? Explain your answer.  The second article, on page 6, \"The Big Garbage Patch\" should be read and they should write a persuasive paragraph, giving their opinion on \"Who is responsible for the world\'s oceans?  Both of these articles involve water (a nice connection to our Science  unit on Water!)  These two paragraphs are due on Friday.  Please have your children return to school each day with the Time Magazine, as we will use it in class (at least on Thursday.)   Thanks.  Please help your child with sentence structure.  Thanks.  Can they come up with a fun, powerful first sentence?  For extra credit they can label and color the World Map that they have with them.\n\nMath:  We will complete lessons 1.11-1.14 this week.  We will have our test on Unit 1 on Friday.  Your child will have their Math Journal 1 with them on Thursday.  This book must be returned on Friday.  The test will cover money (how would you show 65 cent, etc. using coins), telling time, name-box collections (write 10 names for number 27 -we have been doing this in class) and completing a bar graph.  Reviewing homework assignments are always a good review. \n\nHomework:  Monday through Wednesday, worksheets, study for the test Thursday evening using their Math','Weekly Overview September 28, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','176-revision','','','2009-09-28 11:32:55','2009-09-28 16:32:55','',176,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=177',0,'revision','',0),(178,9,'2009-09-28 11:57:24','2009-09-28 16:57:24','Welcome to a busy, focused filled week!  We have had a wonderful morning and beginning of the week!  Many thanks.\n\nThanks for the snacks coming in.  Please remember to pay your 85.00 classroom fee-I have ordered Time and Spanish Magazines and the bills are due!!  Thanks.  It is okay to pay some now- even $20.00 will help to pay your child\'s magazine subscriptions.  Thanks.  You can pay the rest later.\n\nPicture day is Wednesday.  We are all going to try and wear our Ray t-shirts each Friday for gym day and for Friday Spirit days!!!  Have your child wear green and white if they do not have Ray logo!!!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are  our read aloud - The Trumpeter Swan by E.B. White.  Ask your child about this story-can they make a prediction about what might happen?  Our shared reading is Angel Child, Dragon Child, which we started today.  We are working on the vowel \"E\" and patterns we see in reading (_e_, ea, ee, _y, ei, etc.)  We will take a test on Angel Child, Dragon Child this .  We are writing in our Journal and our Writer\'s Notebook.  Ask your child about these.\n\nHomework:  Your child should take home their Open Court book (Angel Child, Dragon Child) to practice reading the story fluently.  L.A./Social Studies/Science  homework-Your child will have their Time Magazine with them.  They will read two of the articles, writing a paragraph (each paragraph should be at least five sentences long) on each article.  The first article \"An Artic Passage (page 2), should be read and they should answer the \"Think!\" question (which is also on that page).   The question reads \"Does it help or hurt the environment if more ships use the Northeast Passage?\"  Explain your answer.  The second article, on page 6, \"The Big Garbage Patch\" should be read and they should write a persuasive paragraph, giving their opinion on \"Who is responsible for the world\'s oceans?  Both of these articles involve water (a nice connection to our Science  unit on Water!)  These two paragraphs are due on Friday.  Please have your children return to school each day with the Time Magazine, as we will use it in class (at least on Thursday.)   Thanks.  Please help your child with sentence structure.  Thanks.  Can they come up with a fun, powerful first sentence?  For extra credit they can label and color the World Map that they have with them.  This map should be turned in on Friday with their paragraphs.\n\nMath:  We will complete lessons 1.11-1.14 this week.  We will have our test on Unit 1 on Friday.  Your child will have their Math Journal 1 with them on Thursday.  This book must be returned on Friday.  The test will cover money (how would you show 65 cent, etc. using coins), telling time, name-box collections (write 10 names for number 27 -we have been doing this in class) and completing a bar graph.  Reviewing homework assignments are always a good review. \n\nHomework:  Monday through Wednesday, worksheets, study for the test Thursday evening using their Math Journa 1.\n\nScience:  We will investigate surface tension of water using a soap and salt solution of water.  We will also estimate how many full drops of water can fit on a penny.  We will set up our Science Lab Book for recording our pictures and our observations.\n\nArt:  We will be finishing our Calico Animals (if not already finished) and this weeks lesson is titled \"Just Look\" - Analysis of a painting for its aesthetic properties.  What will your child be able to tell you about a painting entitled Two Cats, by Franz Marc?  Ask them after Wednesday!\n\nSocial Studies:  See above under language arts.  Thanks.\n\nHave a Great Week!  Again, thanks for all your help.','Weekly Overview September 28, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','176-revision-2','','','2009-09-28 11:57:24','2009-09-28 16:57:24','',176,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=178',0,'revision','',0),(179,9,'2009-10-05 11:50:11','2009-10-05 16:50:11','Hello.  Hope everyone had a nice weekend.  Please remember that the CANDY SALE ends this Thursday!  We are trying to get every child to sell at least one item-this is one our biggest fund-rasiers!!!  Please Help!  Thanks-top classroom gets a pizza party!!!  :) \r\n\r\nYour child will have a Scholastic book order with them today-it is due Friday.  I\'ll order the books Friday and get them back in about a week.  If you want them for a surprise present, just let me know.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:   We are all working on reading in our just right reading choices during silent reading time.  We will write in our Journals or our Writer\'s Notebooks each day this week.We are reading and review beginning word list for third graders.  We had a discussion about silent reading and writing.  We are working on increasing our stamina and focus for 30 minutes or longer!  Ask your child about the guidelines for workshop rules we came up with.  Your child will be coming home with a beginning third grade word list-keep this for practice at home.  Our computers are not working right now for AR tests-we are working on the problem and hopefully they will be up and running by the end of the day.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Have your child pick 10 words from their word list (that they have with them).  They should think up a story, using these ten words in their story.  The story should be at least 10 sentences.  They should underline the words in their story from the word list.  If they use more than ten words from the word list, they will get extra credit-just make sure all the words are underlined so I can easily identify them.  They should then make an illustration of their story.  Have Fun!!  Let them tell you the story, orally first, them have them write out the story.  All this is should be turned in on Friday.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will start Unit 2 - Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers.   Please look for the Unit 2 parent letter-your child will have it with them.  Lessons 2.1-2.4 will be completed. \r\n\r\n Homework-Monday through Thursday 2.1-2.4.  \"Fact Triangles\" will be coming home today.  They should stay at home for further practice if your child needs it.  Ask your child how to practice the facts using these fact triangles.  Can they explain it to you?\r\n\r\nScience:  Will will continue with our Water Unit.  We will add substances (soap and maybe vinegar) to the water to see if surface tension and/or other water properties change.  Science Words include:  water, property, absorb, investigation, and surface tension.  What question did your child have last week.  At the end of every investigation, your child will be writing a question that they have.  Ask your child about this.  As always, thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We will continue with map work, reinforcing the countries that are being taught in Spanish Class.\r\n\r\nArt: \"Why not a blue cat?\"  -Artists sometimes make arbitrary choices of color, choosing colors that express their feelings- we call this expressionism (we had this conversation last week)  Your child will express themselves using chalk and oil pastels.  Has your child told you about the slides?  We usually start each art class by showing slides of both work of an artist(s) and student art work.  Ask your child on Wednesday who they saw and learned about. (I am guessing this lesson might go into next week-we will see-it is the first time we will be using oil pastels.)\r\n\r\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview October 5, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-october-5-2009','','','2009-10-05 11:50:11','2009-10-05 16:50:11','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=179',0,'post','',0),(180,9,'2009-10-05 11:48:20','2009-10-05 16:48:20','Hello.  Hope everyone had a nice weekend.  Please remember that the CANDY SALE ends this Thursday!  We are trying to get every child to sell at least one item-this is one our biggest fund-rasiers!!!  Please Help!  Thanks-top classroom gets a pizza party!!!  :) \n\nYour child will have a Scholastic book order with them today-it is due Friday.  I\'ll order the books Friday and get them back in about a week.  If you want them for a surprise present, just let me know.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:   We are all working on reading in our just right reading choices during silent reading time.  We will write in our Journals or our Writer\'s Notebooks each day this week.We are reading and review beginning word list for third graders.  We had a discussion about silent reading and writing.  We are working on increasing our stamina and focus for 30 minutes or longer!  Ask your child about the guidelines for workshop rules we came up with.  Your child will be coming home with a beginning third grade word list-keep this for practice at home.  Our computers are not working right now for AR tests-we are working on the problem and hopefully they will be up and running by the end of the day.\n\nHomework:  Have your child pick 10 words from their word list (that they have with them).  They should think up a story, using these ten words in their story.  The story should be at least 10 sentences.  They should underline the words in their story from the word list.  If they use more than ten words from the word list, they will get extra credit-just make sure all the words are underlined so I can easily identify them.  They should then make an illustration of their story.  Have Fun!!  Let them tell you the story, orally first, them have them write out the story.  All this is should be turned in on Friday.\n\nMath:  We will start Unit 2 - Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers.   Please look for the Unit 2 parent letter-your child will have it with them.  Lessons 2.1-2.4 will be completed. \n\n Homework-Monday through Thursday 2.1-2.4.  \"Fact Triangles\" will be coming home today.  They should stay at home for further practice if your child needs it.  Ask your child how to practice the facts using these fact triangles.  Can they explain it to you?\n\nScience:  Will will continue with our Water Unit.  We will add substances (soap and maybe vinegar) to the water to see if surface tension and/or other water properties change.  Science Words include:  water, property, absorb, investigation, and surface tension.  What question did your child have last week.  At the end of every investigation, your child will be writing a question that they have.  Ask your child about this.  As always, thanks for your help.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will continue with map work, reinforcing the countries that are being taught in Spanish Class.\n\nArt: \"Why not a blue cat?\"  -Artists sometimes make arbitrary choices of color, choosing colors that express their feelings- we call this expressionism (we had this conversation last week)  Your child will express themselves using chalk and oil pastels.  Has your child told you about the slides?  We usually start each art class by showing slides of both work of an artist(s) and student art work.  Ask your child on Wednesday who they saw and learned about. (I am guessing this lesson might go into next week-we will see-it is the first time we will be using oil pastels)\n\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview October 5, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','179-revision','','','2009-10-05 11:48:20','2009-10-05 16:48:20','',179,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=180',0,'revision','',0),(181,9,'2009-10-05 11:51:19','2009-10-05 16:51:19','Hello.  Hope everyone had a nice weekend.  Please remember that the CANDY SALE ends this Thursday!  We are trying to get every child to sell at least one item-this is one our biggest fund-rasiers!!!  Please Help!  Thanks-top classroom gets a pizza party!!!  :) \n\nYour child will have a Scholastic book order with them today-it is due Friday.  I\'ll order the books Friday and get them back in about a week.  If you want them for a surprise present, just let me know.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:   We are all working on reading in our just right reading choices during silent reading time.  We will write in our Journals or our Writer\'s Notebooks each day this week.We are reading and review beginning word list for third graders.  We had a discussion about silent reading and writing.  We are working on increasing our stamina and focus for 30 minutes or longer!  Ask your child about the guidelines for workshop rules we came up with.  Your child will be coming home with a beginning third grade word list-keep this for practice at home.  Our computers are not working right now for AR tests-we are working on the problem and hopefully they will be up and running by the end of the day.\n\nHomework:  Have your child pick 10 words from their word list (that they have with them).  They should think up a story, using these ten words in their story.  The story should be at least 10 sentences.  They should underline the words in their story from the word list.  If they use more than ten words from the word list, they will get extra credit-just make sure all the words are underlined so I can easily identify them.  They should then make an illustration of their story.  Have Fun!!  Let them tell you the story, orally first, them have them write out the story.  All this is should be turned in on Friday.\n\nMath:  We will start Unit 2 - Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers.   Please look for the Unit 2 parent letter-your child will have it with them.  Lessons 2.1-2.4 will be completed. \n\n Homework-Monday through Thursday 2.1-2.4.  \"Fact Triangles\" will be coming home today.  They should stay at home for further practice if your child needs it.  Ask your child how to practice the facts using these fact triangles.  Can they explain it to you?\n\nScience:  Will will continue with our Water Unit.  We will add substances (soap and maybe vinegar) to the water to see if surface tension and/or other water properties change.  Science Words include:  water, property, absorb, investigation, and surface tension.  What question did your child have last week.  At the end of every investigation, your child will be writing a question that they have.  Ask your child about this.  As always, thanks for your help.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will continue with map work, reinforcing the countries that are being taught in Spanish Class.\n\nArt: \"Why not a blue cat?\"  -Artists sometimes make arbitrary choices of color, choosing colors that express their feelings- we call this expressionism (we had this conversation last week)  Your child will express themselves using chalk and oil pastels.  Has your child told you about the slides?  We usually start each art class by showing slides of both work of an artist(s) and student art work.  Ask your child on Wednesday who they saw and learned about. (I am guessing this lesson might go into next week-we will see-it is the first time we will be using oil pastels.)\n\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview October 5, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','179-autosave','','','2009-10-05 11:51:19','2009-10-05 16:51:19','',179,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=181',0,'revision','',0),(182,9,'2009-10-19 13:35:49','2009-10-19 18:35:49','Hope everyone saw their child\'s mid-term report.  Again, thank you for all your help.  Please sign and return the report.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nTomorrow and Wednesday your children will be taking the Learning First Test.  The reading test is tomorrow and the math test will be Wednesday morning.  These tests, again, give us some idea of how your child is doing in third grade-again, it is one test.  The tests also help with test taking and preparing for the ISAT\'s.  Each test is about 55 minutes.  They should relax and do their best.  The tests will be given again in the winter and in the spring.\r\n\r\nThanks for the field trip money coming in.  I need all the money and forms signed and returned by this Friday.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nNext Friday, as tradition has it, in celebration of Halloween, your child can dress up as one of their favorite characters from a book.  They can wear their outfit to school.  Next week\'s Language Arts Homework will focus around this.  (Writing a description of their character.)\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We will be giving the Learning First Tests for 2 days.  Our focus this week is writing.  Looking through their journal, your child is re-writing a page of their choice by beginning each sentence with a different word.  This was challenging.  Ask your child about it.  We will work on this throughout the week.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Your child will have reading homework-they should read at least 30 minutes each night.  In connection with their book, your child should write at least one question that they have in mind about their book.  Any question.  (i.e.  Could I have read this book last year?  I wonder how many pronouns are on each page? etc.  The questions should be listed and turned in on Friday.  Please have your child put the title and author of the book on their homework.  How have you and your child liked the Home Journals?  Encourage your child to read their classmates work and remind them that others are reading their work!  The kids are having wonderful comments to me about these journals!!  Again, three journals are circulating so your child will get a journal about once every 10 days.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 2.8-2.10 will be completed and the Unit 2 Test will be on Thursday.  Homework sheets for lessons 2.8 and 2.9 will be Monday and Tuesday.  Math Journal 1 will go home Wednesday evening for study and review.  The Test will be Thursday.\r\n\r\nArt:  Colors and Feelings--In expressionism, artists may paint (or crayons) in colors that express their feelings rather than in true-to-life colors.  They will discuss slides by Matisse and Picasso.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Discussions will focus around Halloween and traditions that we (and other cultures) might have.','Weekly Overview  October 19, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-october-19-2009','','','2009-10-19 13:35:49','2009-10-19 18:35:49','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=182',0,'post','',0),(183,9,'2009-10-19 12:23:15','2009-10-19 17:23:15','Hope everyone saw their child\'s mid-term report.  Again, thank you for all your help.  Please sign and return the report.  Thanks.\n\nTomorrow and Wednesday your children will be taking the Learning First Test.  The reading test is tomorrow and the math test will be Wednesday morning.  These tests, again, give us some idea of how your child is doing in third grade-again, it is one test.  The tests also help with test taking and preparing for the ISAT\'s.  Each test is about 55 minutes.  They should relax and do their best.  The tests will be given again in the winter and in the spring.\n\nThanks for the field trip money coming in.  I need all the money and forms signed and returned by this Friday.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We will be giving the Learning First Tests for 2 days.  Our focus this week is writing.  Looking through their journal, your child is re-writing a page of their choice by beginning each sentence with a different word.  This was challenging.  Ask your child about it.  We will work on this throughout the week.\n\nHomework:  Your child will have reading homework-they should read at least 30 minutes each night.','Weekly Overview  October 19, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','182-revision','','','2009-10-19 12:23:15','2009-10-19 17:23:15','',182,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=183',0,'revision','',0),(184,9,'2009-10-19 12:30:17','2009-10-19 17:30:17','Hope everyone saw their child\'s mid-term report.  Again, thank you for all your help.  Please sign and return the report.  Thanks.\n\nTomorrow and Wednesday your children will be taking the Learning First Test.  The reading test is tomorrow and the math test will be Wednesday morning.  These tests, again, give us some idea of how your child is doing in third grade-again, it is one test.  The tests also help with test taking and preparing for the ISAT\'s.  Each test is about 55 minutes.  They should relax and do their best.  The tests will be given again in the winter and in the spring.\n\nThanks for the field trip money coming in.  I need all the money and forms signed and returned by this Friday.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We will be giving the Learning First Tests for 2 days.  Our focus this week is writing.  Looking through their journal, your child is re-writing a page of their choice by beginning each sentence with a different word.  This was challenging.  Ask your child about it.  We will work on this throughout the week.\n\nHomework:  Your child will have reading homework-they should read at least 30 minutes each night.  In connection with their book, your child should write at least one question that they have in mind about their book.  Any question.  (i.e.  Could I have read this book last year?  I wonder how many pronouns are on each page? etc.  The questions should be listed and turned in on Friday.  Please have your child put the title and author of the book on their homework.\n\nMath:  Lessons 2.8-2.10 will be completed and the Unit 2 Test will be on Thursday.  Homework sheets for lessons 2.8 and 2.9 will be','Weekly Overview  October 19, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','182-revision-2','','','2009-10-19 12:30:17','2009-10-19 17:30:17','',182,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=184',0,'revision','',0),(185,9,'2009-10-19 13:30:17','2009-10-19 18:30:17','Hope everyone saw their child\'s mid-term report.  Again, thank you for all your help.  Please sign and return the report.  Thanks.\n\nTomorrow and Wednesday your children will be taking the Learning First Test.  The reading test is tomorrow and the math test will be Wednesday morning.  These tests, again, give us some idea of how your child is doing in third grade-again, it is one test.  The tests also help with test taking and preparing for the ISAT\'s.  Each test is about 55 minutes.  They should relax and do their best.  The tests will be given again in the winter and in the spring.\n\nThanks for the field trip money coming in.  I need all the money and forms signed and returned by this Friday.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We will be giving the Learning First Tests for 2 days.  Our focus this week is writing.  Looking through their journal, your child is re-writing a page of their choice by beginning each sentence with a different word.  This was challenging.  Ask your child about it.  We will work on this throughout the week.\n\nHomework:  Your child will have reading homework-they should read at least 30 minutes each night.  In connection with their book, your child should write at least one question that they have in mind about their book.  Any question.  (i.e.  Could I have read this book last year?  I wonder how many pronouns are on each page? etc.  The questions should be listed and turned in on Friday.  Please have your child put the title and author of the book on their homework.  How have you and your child liked the Home Journals?  Encourage your child to read their classmates work and remind them that others are reading their work!  The kids are having wonderful comments to me about these journals!!  Again, three journals are circulating so your child will get a journal about once every 10 days.\n\nMath:  Lessons 2.8-2.10 will be completed and the Unit 2 Test will be on Thursday.  Homework sheets for lessons 2.8 and 2.9 will be Monday and Tuesday.  Math Journal 1 will go home Wednesday evening for study and review.  The Test will be Thursday.\n\nArt:  Colors and Feelings--In expressionism, artists may paint (or crayons) in colors that express their feelings rather than in true-to-life colors.  They will discuss slides by Matisse and Picasso.\n\nSocial Studies:  Discussions will focus around Halloween and traditions that we (and other cultures) might have.','Weekly Overview  October 19, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','182-revision-3','','','2009-10-19 13:30:17','2009-10-19 18:30:17','',182,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=185',0,'revision','',0),(186,9,'2009-10-19 13:35:09','2009-10-19 18:35:09','Hope everyone saw their child\'s mid-term report.  Again, thank you for all your help.  Please sign and return the report.  Thanks.\n\nTomorrow and Wednesday your children will be taking the Learning First Test.  The reading test is tomorrow and the math test will be Wednesday morning.  These tests, again, give us some idea of how your child is doing in third grade-again, it is one test.  The tests also help with test taking and preparing for the ISAT\'s.  Each test is about 55 minutes.  They should relax and do their best.  The tests will be given again in the winter and in the spring.\n\nThanks for the field trip money coming in.  I need all the money and forms signed and returned by this Friday.  Thanks.\n\nNext Friday, as tradition has it, in celebration of Halloween, your child can dress up as one of their favorite characters from a book.  They can wear their outfit to school.  Next week\'s Language Arts Homework will focus around this.  (Writing a description of their character.)\n\nLanguage Arts:  We will be giving the Learning First Tests for 2 days.  Our focus this week is writing.  Looking through their journal, your child is re-writing a page of their choice by beginning each sentence with a different word.  This was challenging.  Ask your child about it.  We will work on this throughout the week.\n\nHomework:  Your child will have reading homework-they should read at least 30 minutes each night.  In connection with their book, your child should write at least one question that they have in mind about their book.  Any question.  (i.e.  Could I have read this book last year?  I wonder how many pronouns are on each page? etc.  The questions should be listed and turned in on Friday.  Please have your child put the title and author of the book on their homework.  How have you and your child liked the Home Journals?  Encourage your child to read their classmates work and remind them that others are reading their work!  The kids are having wonderful comments to me about these journals!!  Again, three journals are circulating so your child will get a journal about once every 10 days.\n\nMath:  Lessons 2.8-2.10 will be completed and the Unit 2 Test will be on Thursday.  Homework sheets for lessons 2.8 and 2.9 will be Monday and Tuesday.  Math Journal 1 will go home Wednesday evening for study and review.  The Test will be Thursday.\n\nArt:  Colors and Feelings--In expressionism, artists may paint (or crayons) in colors that express their feelings rather than in true-to-life colors.  They will discuss slides by Matisse and Picasso.\n\nSocial Studies:  Discussions will focus around Halloween and traditions that we (and other cultures) might have.','Weekly Overview  October 19, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','182-revision-4','','','2009-10-19 13:35:09','2009-10-19 18:35:09','',182,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=186',0,'revision','',0),(187,9,'2009-10-26 12:29:14','2009-10-26 17:29:14','A few notes:\r\n\r\n-Friday is Literacy Day Parade.  Your child can wear a costume of one of their favorite characters.  (more in Language Arts)  Third grade does not participate in the parade, but we will be in the hallway, watching the younger students parade by.  If your child wants to bring in extra drinks and/or treats, that is fine.  I will have some kind of bag for everyone.\r\n\r\nAlso, if your child has not paid their $85.00, please see the note that they have with them.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading \"The Tree House\" all week.  A test will be given on Friday.  I will have the students take home their book to provide extra practice in reading the story, if that is needed.   We will focus on vocabulary and summary.\r\n\r\nWe will be spending a great deal of time on Friday, simply reading to celebrate our Literacy Parade!!  Your children are very excited about this!!\r\n\r\nHomework:  Your child\'s homework will focus around a character of their choice.  They have a \"Character Web\" with them.  They should choose a character (any character from a story they have read is fine), put the name of the character in the center of the web.  They should them give a few word description in each of the boxes.  They can add additional boxes if they wish.\r\n\r\nOn the back of this web sheet, they should describe their character, using complete sentences and referring to the web words that they used.  Your child should write no fewer than 6 sentences.  The web and sentence sheet should be turned in on Friday.  For extra credit, they can draw a picture of their character (what they might be wearing on Friday.)  They do not have to write about the character they might be on Friday.  Any character is fine, but it would be a nice connection if they choose to focus on one character.\r\n\r\nAlso, your child should be becoming familiar with the Home Journal Books that are circulating.  We have a total of three books.  Please remember to ask your child about this.  They will have extra writing homework about  every other week.  Please encourage your child to read through these journals.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nMath:  We are having a quiz today on Unit 2. (pop quiz!)  Unit 3, lessons 1-4 will be completed.  Please look for the parent letter and unit 3 lesson 1 homework tonight.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We are working in our Map Essentials Book this week.  Focus- using a \"key\" when looking for information in a map.\r\n\r\nScience:  Building and reading thermometers -ask your child after Tuesday and Thursday!!\r\n\r\nArt:  Colors and Feelings.  Working again with oil pastels, we will express ourselves in our own way.  We will also do some extra Halloween art.\r\n\r\nSpanish:  Please remember to have your child read in Spanish for practice throught out the week.\r\n\r\nHave a great week! \r\n\r\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview October 26, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-october-26-2009','','','2009-10-26 12:29:14','2009-10-26 17:29:14','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=187',0,'post','',0),(188,9,'2009-10-26 12:27:13','2009-10-26 17:27:13','A few notes:\n\n-Friday is Literacy Day Parade.  Your child can wear a costume of one of their favorite characters.  (more in Language Arts)  Third grade does not participate in the parade, but we will be in the hallway, watching the younger students parade by.  If your child wants to bring in extra drinks and/or treats, that is fine.  I will have some kind of bag for everyone.\n\nAlso, if your child has not paid their $85.00, please see the note that they have with them.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading \"The Tree House\" all week.  A test will be given on Friday.  I will have the students take home their book to provide extra practice in reading the story, if that is needed.   We will focus on vocabulary and summary.\n\nHomework:  Your child\'s homework will focus around a character of their choice.  They have a \"Character Web\" with them.  They should choose a character (any character from a story they have read is fine), put the name of the character in the center of the web.  They should them give a few word description in each of the boxes.  They can add additional boxes if they wish.\n\nOn the back of this web sheet, they should describe their character, using complete sentences and referring to the web words that they used.  Your child should write no fewer than 6 sentences.  The web and sentence sheet should be turned in on Friday.  For extra credit, they can draw a picture of their character (what they might be wearing on Friday.)  They do not have to write about the character they might be on Friday.  Any character is fine, but it would be a nice connection if they choose to focus on one character.\n\nAlso, your child should be becoming familiar with the Home Journal Books that are circulating.  We have a total of three books.  Please remember to ask your child about this.  They will have extra writing homework about  every other week.  Please encourage your child to read through these journals.  Thanks.\n\nMath:  We are having a quiz today on Unit 2. (pop quiz!)  Unit 3, lessons 1-4 will be completed.  Please look for the parent letter and unit 3 lesson 1 homework tonight.\n\nSocial Studies:  We are working in our Map Essentials Book this week.  Focus- using a \"key\" when looking for information in a map.\n\nScience:  Building and reading thermometers -ask your child after Tuesday and Thursday!!\n\nArt:  Colors and Feelings.  Working again with oil pastels, we will express ourselves in our own way.  We will also do some extra Halloween art.\n\nSpanish:  Please remember to have your child read in span','Weekly Overview October 26, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','187-revision','','','2009-10-26 12:27:13','2009-10-26 17:27:13','',187,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=188',0,'revision','',0),(189,9,'2009-10-26 12:29:09','2009-10-26 17:29:09','A few notes:\n\n-Friday is Literacy Day Parade.  Your child can wear a costume of one of their favorite characters.  (more in Language Arts)  Third grade does not participate in the parade, but we will be in the hallway, watching the younger students parade by.  If your child wants to bring in extra drinks and/or treats, that is fine.  I will have some kind of bag for everyone.\n\nAlso, if your child has not paid their $85.00, please see the note that they have with them.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading \"The Tree House\" all week.  A test will be given on Friday.  I will have the students take home their book to provide extra practice in reading the story, if that is needed.   We will focus on vocabulary and summary.\n\nWe will be spending a great deal of time on Friday, simply reading to celebrate our Literacy Parade!!  Your children are very excited a\n\nHomework:  Your child\'s homework will focus around a character of their choice.  They have a \"Character Web\" with them.  They should choose a character (any character from a story they have read is fine), put the name of the character in the center of the web.  They should them give a few word description in each of the boxes.  They can add additional boxes if they wish.\n\nOn the back of this web sheet, they should describe their character, using complete sentences and referring to the web words that they used.  Your child should write no fewer than 6 sentences.  The web and sentence sheet should be turned in on Friday.  For extra credit, they can draw a picture of their character (what they might be wearing on Friday.)  They do not have to write about the character they might be on Friday.  Any character is fine, but it would be a nice connection if they choose to focus on one character.\n\nAlso, your child should be becoming familiar with the Home Journal Books that are circulating.  We have a total of three books.  Please remember to ask your child about this.  They will have extra writing homework about  every other week.  Please encourage your child to read through these journals.  Thanks.\n\nMath:  We are having a quiz today on Unit 2. (pop quiz!)  Unit 3, lessons 1-4 will be completed.  Please look for the parent letter and unit 3 lesson 1 homework tonight.\n\nSocial Studies:  We are working in our Map Essentials Book this week.  Focus- using a \"key\" when looking for information in a map.\n\nScience:  Building and reading thermometers -ask your child after Tuesday and Thursday!!\n\nArt:  Colors and Feelings.  Working again with oil pastels, we will express ourselves in our own way.  We will also do some extra Halloween art.\n\nSpanish:  Please remember to have your child read in Spanish for practice throught out the week.','Weekly Overview October 26, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','187-revision-2','','','2009-10-26 12:29:09','2009-10-26 17:29:09','',187,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=189',0,'revision','',0),(190,9,'2009-11-04 13:06:15','2009-11-04 18:06:15','Wednesday....\r\n\r\nPictures are coming home today!!!  No school this Friday.\r\n\r\nWe are having a great week...\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Our focus has been The Hundred Dresses.  Activities, vocabulary,  writing and drawing are all focused around this story that we will go see next Tuesday!!  Some discussions and writings have focused around bullying.   Your child should bring a lunch to school that day.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nWhat can your child tell you about compound words and contractions?\r\n\r\nHomework:  As you know, your child will get a worksheet each day, relating to the Time Magazine.  They are being graded and returned each day this week.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 3.5-3.7 will be completed.  We are covering lesson 3.6 in two days.  Tonight\'s homework will be a fact sheet.  Time your child.  How long did the worksheet take them.  Due tomorrow.  3.7 homework will go home and be due Monday.  Thanks.  How is your child doing with perimeter and area?\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We are working in our Map Essentials book, reading aerial and photo maps.\r\n\r\nScience:  Water.  Several read aloud stories focused around water and it\'s importance to our world.\r\n\r\nArt:  Tomorrow we will make \"pinch pots\"-a hand-formed ceramic pot!!\r\n\r\nSorry for the delay this week!  Have a nice rest of the week.\r\n\r\nJust a reminder.  Please join the PTA if you have not.  We have a \"GOAL\" chart outside the office that your children made to help keep track of membership and we are watching it grow!!   $10.00 per family.  Many, many thanks!!','Weekly Overview November 2, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-november-2-2009','','','2009-11-04 13:06:15','2009-11-04 18:06:15','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=190',0,'post','',0),(191,9,'2009-11-04 13:05:49','2009-11-04 18:05:49','Wednesday....\n\nPictures are coming home today!!!  No school this Friday.\n\nWe are having a great week...\n\nLanguage Arts:  Our focus has been The Hundred Dresses.  Activities, vocabulary,  writing and drawing are all focused around this story that we will go see next Tuesday!!  Some discussions and writings have focused around bullying.   Your child should bring a lunch to school that day.  Thanks.\n\nWhat can your child tell you about compound words and contractions?\n\nHomework:  As you know, your child will get a worksheet each day, relating to the Time Magazine.  They are being graded and returned each day this week.\n\nMath:  Lessons 3.5-3.7 will be completed.  We are covering lesson 3.6 in two days.  Tonights homework will be a fact sheet.  Time your child.  How long did the worksheet take them.  Due tomorrow.  3.7 homework will go home and be due Monday.  Thanks.  How is your child doing with perimeter and area?\n\nSocial Studies:  We are working in our Map Essentials book, reading aerial and photo maps.\n\nScience:  Water.  Several read aloud stories focused around water and it\'s importance to our world.\n\nArt:  Tomorrow we will make \"pinch pots\"-a hand-formed ceramic pot!!\n\nSorry for the delay this week!  Have a nice rest of the week.\n\nJust a reminder.  Please join the PTA if you have not.  We have a \"GOAL\" chart outside the office that your children made to help keep track of membership and we are watching it grow!!   $10.00 per family.  Many, many thanks!!','Weekly Overview November 2, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','190-revision','','','2009-11-04 13:05:49','2009-11-04 18:05:49','',190,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=191',0,'revision','',0),(192,9,'2009-11-09 11:30:04','2009-11-09 16:30:04','FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!!   The Hundred Dresses has gotten rave reviews!!!  I am very excited.  Please remind your children how to be sophisticated third graders when on a bus and watching the performance.   They should bring a lunch and we will eat in the classroom when we return.\r\n\r\nPicture retake day is next Monday, November 16, 2009.\r\n\r\nYour child has a scholastic book order form.  Please turn in forms by Friday if you want to order books.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nJust a reminder, no school on Wednesday, Veteran\'s Day.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We have been reading The Hundred Dresses, writing about it in our Writer\'s Notebook, discussing bullying and enjoying the story.  We will each draw either a dress or a motorboat today and take the drawings with us tomorrow.  Some of the art work will be displayed during the performance.  Journal writing, this week, will focus around two of the characters-Maddie and Jack.\r\n\r\nHomework:  OK, homework for this week and next, as follows.  Your child has either a Learning First Booklet OR a Reading Benchmark Assessment with them.  They should work in their booklet for the next TWO weeks, becoming fluent in the readings and very comfortable with their answers to the questions that follow each story.  Your child should spend at least 30 minutes each night, reading and then answering the questions.  THESE BOOKLETS SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL.  Please, review your child\'s answers with them, practicing at home.  In addition, your child has an extended response writing prompt.  On this Friday November 13, your child should bring their First Draft of their extended-response to school.  We will read them with a partner (and discuss how to improve), then your child will take the response home.  Your child should then rewrite their response, returning the final response on the following Friday, November 20, 2009.  Again, whatever booklet your child has should stay at home.  These are a good reminder, for parents, of what to expect on the ISAT\'s.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 3.8-3.10 will be completed.  Please refer to Unit 3 parent letter and homework sheets 3.8-3.10.  Thanks.  In addition, we will working on facts (addition and subtraction)-taking a timed test each day this week!!!  Please practice these at home.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Working in our Map Essential books, we are learning about different types of maps and how to read information from them.\r\n\r\nScience:  Investigation of Water Vapor will be our focus.  We will investigate the effect of surface area and air temperature on evaporation and observe condensation.\r\n\r\nArt:  Hopefully you have heard about their Textured Pinch Pots!!  They really enjoyed working with clay and creating their pots!  We will paint the pots on Friday and they will be displayed in the hallway for all to see!!\r\n\r\nHave a great week!   Jean Clement','Weekly Overview November 9, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-november-9-2009','','','2009-11-09 11:30:04','2009-11-09 16:30:04','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=192',0,'post','',0),(193,9,'2009-11-09 09:22:27','2009-11-09 14:22:27','FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!!   The Hundred Dresses has gotten rave reviews!!!  I am very excited.  Please remind your children how to be sophisticated third graders when on a bus and watching the performance.   They should bring a lunch and we will eat in the classroom when we return.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We have been reading The Hundred Dresses, writing about it in our Writer\'s Notebook, discussing bullying and enjoying the story.  We will each draw either a dress or a motorboat today and take the drawings with us tomorrow.  Some of the art work will be displayed during the performance.','Weekly Overview November 9, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','192-revision','','','2009-11-09 09:22:27','2009-11-09 14:22:27','',192,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=193',0,'revision','',0),(194,9,'2009-11-09 10:52:36','2009-11-09 15:52:36','FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!!   The Hundred Dresses has gotten rave reviews!!!  I am very excited.  Please remind your children how to be sophisticated third graders when on a bus and watching the performance.   They should bring a lunch and we will eat in the classroom when we return.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We have been reading The Hundred Dresses, writing about it in our Writer\'s Notebook, discussing bullying and enjoying the story.  We will each draw either a dress or a motorboat today and take the drawings with us tomorrow.  Some of the art work will be displayed during the performance.  Journal writing, this week, willl focus around two of the characters-Maddie and Jack.\n\nHomework:  Ok, homework for this week and next, as follows.  Your child has either a Learning First Booklet OR a Reading Benchmark Assessment with them.  They should work in their booklet for the next TWO weeks, becoming fluent in the readings and very comfortable with their answers to the questions that follow each story.  Your child should spend at least 30 minutes each night, reading and then answering the questions.  THESE BOOKLETS SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL.  Please, review your child\'s answers with them, practicing at home.  In addition, your child has an extended response writing prompt.  On this Friday November 13, your child should bring their First Draft of their extended-response to school.  We will read them with a partner (and discuss how to improve), then your child will take the response home.  Your child should then rewrite their response, returning the final response on the following Friday, November 20, 2009.  Again, whatever booklet your child has should stay at home.  These are a good reminder, for parents, of what to expect on the ISAT\'s.\n\nMath:  Lessons 3.8-3.10 will be completed.  Please refer to Unit 3 parent letter and homework sheets 3.8-3.10.  Thanks.  In addition, we will working on facts (addition and subtraction)-taking a timed test each day this week!!!  Please practice these at home.  Thanks for your help.\n\nSocial Studies:  Working in our Map Essential books, we are learning about diffent types','Weekly Overview November 9, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','192-revision-2','','','2009-11-09 10:52:36','2009-11-09 15:52:36','',192,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=194',0,'revision','',0),(195,9,'2009-11-09 11:24:44','2009-11-09 16:24:44','FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!!   The Hundred Dresses has gotten rave reviews!!!  I am very excited.  Please remind your children how to be sophisticated third graders when on a bus and watching the performance.   They should bring a lunch and we will eat in the classroom when we return.\n\nPicture retake day is next Monday, November 16, 2009.\n\nYour child has a scholastic book order form.  Please turn in forms by Friday if you want to order books.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We have been reading The Hundred Dresses, writing about it in our Writer\'s Notebook, discussing bullying and enjoying the story.  We will each draw either a dress or a motorboat today and take the drawings with us tomorrow.  Some of the art work will be displayed during the performance.  Journal writing, this week, will focus around two of the characters-Maddie and Jack.\n\nHomework:  OK, homework for this week and next, as follows.  Your child has either a Learning First Booklet OR a Reading Benchmark Assessment with them.  They should work in their booklet for the next TWO weeks, becoming fluent in the readings and very comfortable with their answers to the questions that follow each story.  Your child should spend at least 30 minutes each night, reading and then answering the questions.  THESE BOOKLETS SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL.  Please, review your child\'s answers with them, practicing at home.  In addition, your child has an extended response writing prompt.  On this Friday November 13, your child should bring their First Draft of their extended-response to school.  We will read them with a partner (and discuss how to improve), then your child will take the response home.  Your child should then rewrite their response, returning the final response on the following Friday, November 20, 2009.  Again, whatever booklet your child has should stay at home.  These are a good reminder, for parents, of what to expect on the ISAT\'s.\n\nMath:  Lessons 3.8-3.10 will be completed.  Please refer to Unit 3 parent letter and homework sheets 3.8-3.10.  Thanks.  In addition, we will working on facts (addition and subtraction)-taking a timed test each day this week!!!  Please practice these at home.  Thanks for your help.\n\nSocial Studies:  Working in our Map Essential books, we are learning about different types of maps and how to read information from them.\n\nScience:  Investigation of Water Vapor will be our focus.  We will investigate the effect of surface area and air temperature on evaporation and observe condensation.\n\nArt:  Hopefully you have heard about their Textured Pinch Pots!!  They really enjoyed working with clay and creating their pots!  We will paint the pots on Friday and they will be displayed in the hallway for all to see!!','Weekly Overview November 9, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','192-revision-3','','','2009-11-09 11:24:44','2009-11-09 16:24:44','',192,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=195',0,'revision','',0),(196,9,'2009-11-09 11:25:57','2009-11-09 16:25:57','FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!!   The Hundred Dresses has gotten rave reviews!!!  I am very excited.  Please remind your children how to be sophisticated third graders when on a bus and watching the performance.   They should bring a lunch and we will eat in the classroom when we return.\n\nPicture retake day is next Monday, November 16, 2009.\n\nYour child has a scholastic book order form.  Please turn in forms by Friday if you want to order books.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We have been reading The Hundred Dresses, writing about it in our Writer\'s Notebook, discussing bullying and enjoying the story.  We will each draw either a dress or a motorboat today and take the drawings with us tomorrow.  Some of the art work will be displayed during the performance.  Journal writing, this week, will focus around two of the characters-Maddie and Jack.\n\nHomework:  OK, homework for this week and next, as follows.  Your child has either a Learning First Booklet OR a Reading Benchmark Assessment with them.  They should work in their booklet for the next TWO weeks, becoming fluent in the readings and very comfortable with their answers to the questions that follow each story.  Your child should spend at least 30 minutes each night, reading and then answering the questions.  THESE BOOKLETS SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL.  Please, review your child\'s answers with them, practicing at home.  In addition, your child has an extended response writing prompt.  On this Friday November 13, your child should bring their First Draft of their extended-response to school.  We will read them with a partner (and discuss how to improve), then your child will take the response home.  Your child should then rewrite their response, returning the final response on the following Friday, November 20, 2009.  Again, whatever booklet your child has should stay at home.  These are a good reminder, for parents, of what to expect on the ISAT\'s.\n\nMath:  Lessons 3.8-3.10 will be completed.  Please refer to Unit 3 parent letter and homework sheets 3.8-3.10.  Thanks.  In addition, we will working on facts (addition and subtraction)-taking a timed test each day this week!!!  Please practice these at home.  Thanks for your help.\n\nSocial Studies:  Working in our Map Essential books, we are learning about different types of maps and how to read information from them.\n\nScience:  Investigation of Water Vapor will be our focus.  We will investigate the effect of surface area and air temperature on evaporation and observe condensation.\n\nArt:  Hopefully you have heard about their Textured Pinch Pots!!  They really enjoyed working with clay and creating their pots!  We will paint the pots on Friday and they will be displayed in the hallway for all to see!!','Weekly Overview November 9, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','192-revision-4','','','2009-11-09 11:25:57','2009-11-09 16:25:57','',192,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=196',0,'revision','',0),(197,9,'2009-11-09 11:26:51','2009-11-09 16:26:51','FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!!   The Hundred Dresses has gotten rave reviews!!!  I am very excited.  Please remind your children how to be sophisticated third graders when on a bus and watching the performance.   They should bring a lunch and we will eat in the classroom when we return.\r\n\r\nPicture retake day is next Monday, November 16, 2009.\r\n\r\nYour child has a scholastic book order form.  Please turn in forms by Friday if you want to order books.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nJust a reminder, no school on Wednesday, Veteran\'s Day.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We have been reading The Hundred Dresses, writing about it in our Writer\'s Notebook, discussing bullying and enjoying the story.  We will each draw either a dress or a motorboat today and take the drawings with us tomorrow.  Some of the art work will be displayed during the performance.  Journal writing, this week, will focus around two of the characters-Maddie and Jack.\r\n\r\nHomework:  OK, homework for this week and next, as follows.  Your child has either a Learning First Booklet OR a Reading Benchmark Assessment with them.  They should work in their booklet for the next TWO weeks, becoming fluent in the readings and very comfortable with their answers to the questions that follow each story.  Your child should spend at least 30 minutes each night, reading and then answering the questions.  THESE BOOKLETS SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL.  Please, review your child\'s answers with them, practicing at home.  In addition, your child has an extended response writing prompt.  On this Friday November 13, your child should bring their First Draft of their extended-response to school.  We will read them with a partner (and discuss how to improve), then your child will take the response home.  Your child should then rewrite their response, returning the final response on the following Friday, November 20, 2009.  Again, whatever booklet your child has should stay at home.  These are a good reminder, for parents, of what to expect on the ISAT\'s.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 3.8-3.10 will be completed.  Please refer to Unit 3 parent letter and homework sheets 3.8-3.10.  Thanks.  In addition, we will working on facts (addition and subtraction)-taking a timed test each day this week!!!  Please practice these at home.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Working in our Map Essential books, we are learning about different types of maps and how to read information from them.\r\n\r\nScience:  Investigation of Water Vapor will be our focus.  We will investigate the effect of surface area and air temperature on evaporation and observe condensation.\r\n\r\nArt:  Hopefully you have heard about their Textured Pinch Pots!!  They really enjoyed working with clay and creating their pots!  We will paint the pots on Friday and they will be displayed in the hallway for all to see!!','Weekly Overview November 9, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','192-revision-5','','','2009-11-09 11:26:51','2009-11-09 16:26:51','',192,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=197',0,'revision','',0),(198,9,'2009-11-09 11:28:30','2009-11-09 16:28:30','FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!!   The Hundred Dresses has gotten rave reviews!!!  I am very excited.  Please remind your children how to be sophisticated third graders when on a bus and watching the performance.   They should bring a lunch and we will eat in the classroom when we return.\n\nPicture retake day is next Monday, November 16, 2009.\n\nYour child has a scholastic book order form.  Please turn in forms by Friday if you want to order books.  Thanks.\n\nJust a reminder, no school on Wednesday, Veteran\'s Day.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We have been reading The Hundred Dresses, writing about it in our Writer\'s Notebook, discussing bullying and enjoying the story.  We will each draw either a dress or a motorboat today and take the drawings with us tomorrow.  Some of the art work will be displayed during the performance.  Journal writing, this week, will focus around two of the characters-Maddie and Jack.\n\nHomework:  OK, homework for this week and next, as follows.  Your child has either a Learning First Booklet OR a Reading Benchmark Assessment with them.  They should work in their booklet for the next TWO weeks, becoming fluent in the readings and very comfortable with their answers to the questions that follow each story.  Your child should spend at least 30 minutes each night, reading and then answering the questions.  THESE BOOKLETS SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL.  Please, review your child\'s answers with them, practicing at home.  In addition, your child has an extended response writing prompt.  On this Friday November 13, your child should bring their First Draft of their extended-response to school.  We will read them with a partner (and discuss how to improve), then your child will take the response home.  Your child should then rewrite their response, returning the final response on the following Friday, November 20, 2009.  Again, whatever booklet your child has should stay at home.  These are a good reminder, for parents, of what to expect on the ISAT\'s.\n\nMath:  Lessons 3.8-3.10 will be completed.  Please refer to Unit 3 parent letter and homework sheets 3.8-3.10.  Thanks.  In addition, we will working on facts (addition and subtraction)-taking a timed test each day this week!!!  Please practice these at home.  Thanks for your help.\n\nSocial Studies:  Working in our Map Essential books, we are learning about different types of maps and how to read information from them.\n\nScience:  Investigation of Water Vapor will be our focus.  We will investigate the effect of surface area and air temperature on evaporation and observe condensation.\n\nArt:  Hopefully you have heard about their Textured Pinch Pots!!  They really enjoyed working with clay and creating their pots!  We will paint the pots on Friday and they will be displayed in the hallway for all to see!!\n\nHave a great week!   Jean Clement','Weekly Overview November 9, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','192-revision-6','','','2009-11-09 11:28:30','2009-11-09 16:28:30','',192,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=198',0,'revision','',0),(199,9,'2009-11-16 13:24:08','2009-11-16 18:24:08','I hope to see you Wednesday on Report Card pick up day!!  Please sign up for a meeting inside the main entrance of the school.  Thanks.\r\nLanguage Arts:  Expository Writing is our focus this week.  I will be sending home an information sheet about expository writing -explaining how to do \"something\", or giving information about something.  Your children should be able to give you many details about Expository Writing.  Your child should have shone you their AR report.  Please discuss with them about how many points they are going to make as their goal this quarter.  We will also discuss at report card pick up.  What book is your child reading?\r\n\r\nHomework:  Your child will have their first draft of their expository writing with them.  Have them read their writing to you.  They should spend about 30 minutes tonight editing their work.  Did they use signal words?  They do not need to finish their writing.  We will work on it again tomorrow.    Their homework for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night is answering in writing:  How I make my favorite sandwich:  Use their worksheet as a guide.  These should be turned in on Friday.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nI am going to keep their homework writing from last week and we will read them with a partner this week, editing their work.\r\n\r\nMath:  We are studying for the Unit 3 test today.  The test will be given tomorrow.  Look for the Unit 4 Parent Letter on Thursday and we will begin Unit 4 on that day!!  Homework tonight is studying for the test-they will have their Math Journal 1 with them tonight.  Unit 4.1 homework will be due Friday.\r\n\r\nArt:  We will finish painting our Textured Pinch Pots.  You will see them on display on Wednesday!\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  In preparation for International Night, each student will be making a flag from their country to be displayed for that night.  What flag is your child working on?  They will start today.\r\n\r\nScience:  Discussion and observations will focus around water vapor and exploration of the properties of water in liquid, solid, and gaseous states.','Weekly Overview November 16, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-november-16-2009','','','2009-11-16 13:24:08','2009-11-16 18:24:08','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=199',0,'post','',0),(200,9,'2009-11-16 13:24:04','2009-11-16 18:24:04','I hope to see you Wednesday on Report Card pick up day!!  Please sign up for a meeting inside the main entrance of the school.  Thanks.\nLanguage Arts:  Expository Writing is our focus this week.  I will be sending home an information sheet about expository writing -explaining how to do \"something\", or giving information about something.  Your children should be able to give you many details about Expository Writing.  Your child should have shone you their AR report.  Please discuss with them about how many points they are going to make as their goal this quarter.  We will also discuss at report card pick up.  What book is your child reading?\n\nHomework:  Your child will have their first draft of their expository writing with them.  Have them read their writing to you.  They should spend about 30 minutes tonight editing their work.  Did they use signal words?  They do not need to finish their writing.  We will work on it again tomorrow.    Their homework for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night is answering in writing:  How I make my favorite sandwich:  Use their worksheet as a guide.  These should be turned in on Friday.  Thanks for your help.\n\nI am going to keep their homework writing from last week and we will read them with a partner this week, editing their work.\n\nMath:  We are studying for the Unit 3 test today.  The test will be given tomorrow.  Look for the Unit 4 Parent Letter on Thursday and we will begin Unit 4 on that day!!  Homework tonight is studying for the test-they will have their Math Journal 1 with them tonight.  Unit 4.1 homework will be due Friday.\n\nArt:  We will finish painting our Textured Pinch Pots.  You will see them on display on Wednesday!\n\nSocial Studies:  In preparation for International Night, each student will be making a flag from their country to be displayed for that night.  What flag is your child working on?  They will start today.\n\nScience:  Discussion and observations will focus around water vapor and exploration of the properties of water in liquid, solid, and gaseous states.','Weekly Overview November 16, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','199-revision','','','2009-11-16 13:24:04','2009-11-16 18:24:04','',199,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=200',0,'revision','',0),(201,9,'2009-11-16 13:25:13','2009-11-16 18:25:13','I hope to see you Wednesday on Report Card pick up day!!  Please sign up for a meeting inside the main entrance of the school.  Thanks.\nLanguage Arts:  Expository Writing is our focus this week.  I will be sending home an information sheet about expository writing -explaining how to do \"something\", or giving information about something.  Your children should be able to give you many details about Expository Writing.  Your child should have shone you their AR report.  Please discuss with them about how many points they are going to make as their goal this quarter.  We will also discuss at report card pick up.  What book is your child reading?\n\nHomework:  Your child will have their first draft of their expository writing with them.  Have them read their writing to you.  They should spend about 30 minutes tonight editing their work.  Did they use signal words?  They do not need to finish their writing.  We will work on it again tomorrow.    Their homework for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night is answering in writing:  How I make my favorite sandwich:  Use their worksheet as a guide.  These should be turned in on Friday.  Thanks for your help.\n\nI am going to keep their homework writing from last week and we will read them with a partner this week, editing their work.\n\nMath:  We are studying for the Unit 3 test today.  The test will be given tomorrow.  Look for the Unit 4 Parent Letter on Thursday and we will begin Unit 4 on that day!!  Homework tonight is studying for the test-they will have their Math Journal 1 with them tonight.  Unit 4.1 homework will be due Friday.\n\nArt:  We will finish painting our Textured Pinch Pots.  You will see them on display on Wednesday!\n\nSocial Studies:  In preparation for International Night, each student will be making a flag from their country to be displayed for that night.  What flag is your child working on?  They will start today.\n\nScience:  Discussion and observations will focus around water vapor and exploration of the properties of water in liquid, solid, and gaseous states.','Weekly Overview November 16, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','199-autosave','','','2009-11-16 13:25:13','2009-11-16 18:25:13','',199,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=201',0,'revision','',0),(202,9,'2009-11-23 13:20:13','2009-11-23 18:20:13','Thank you for everyone who came in on Report Card Pick up!!  I am enjoying teaching all your children.   Let us both push your child a little more in reading, writing and math.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nLanguage Art:  Many readings this week will focus around a Thanksgiving theme.  Ask your children what stories we are discussing.  \"The Bad Beginning\" is still being read-what can your child tell you?  What vocabulary do they remember from the story?  The story has many challenging words that we are making a list of and discussing.  Our writing will focus around journal writing a little more this week.  (We are finishing up any expository writing that is not completed.)\r\n\r\nHomework:  (along with our social studies)  Your child has three worksheets that go along with our Time Magazine - Past and Present.  They will have their magazine and the worksheets with them today.  They should complete all three worksheets (one sheet is on both sides) and the worksheets are due on Wednesday.    There are a total of three bonus activities - one on the bottom of each page.  Your child can choose to do one, two or three of these activities and turn them in on Wednesday, along  with the worksheets.  These bonuses are extra credit.  Discuss this option with your child.  Thanks.  Also, the Home Journal Writing Books are still circulating.  Please spend some time reading the Journals with your child when it is their turn to write in them.    These Journals are graded just like homework.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 4.2-4.4 will be completed this week.  Homework Monday and Tuesday evenings.  We will do homework with a partner on Wednesday.\r\n\r\nYour child has their Unit 3 test and a Unit 3 quiz with them.  Please review and sign and return if I requested that.  Thanks.  As always, go over the test/quiz with your child.  Please review anything that they do not yet have secured.  Thanks.  We are in to facts-multiplication and division!!!  Practice extra at home!\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  The stories of Thanksgiving, Native American, sharing and friendship will all be discussed through many stories.\r\n\r\nArt:  We will focus around a holiday art activity.\r\n\r\nHave a wonderful Holiday and I will see you again next Monday.\r\n\r\nThanks, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview November 23, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-november-23-2009','','','2009-11-23 13:20:13','2009-11-23 18:20:13','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=202',0,'post','',0),(203,9,'2009-11-23 13:19:57','2009-11-23 18:19:57','Thank you for everyone who came in on Report Card Pick up!!  I am enjoying teaching all your children.   Let us both push your child a little more in reading, writing and math.  Thanks for your help.\n\nLanguage Art:  Many readings this week will focus around a Thanksgiving theme.  Ask your children what stories we are discussing.  \"The Bad Beginning\" is still being read-what can your child tell you?  What vocabulary do they remember from the story?  The story has many challenging words that we are making a list of and discussing.  Our writing will focus around journal writing a little more this week.  (We are finishing up any expository writing that is not completed.)\n\nHomework:  (along with our social studies)  Your child has three worksheets that go along with our Time Magazine - Past and Present.  They will have their magazine and the worksheets with them today.  They should complete all three worksheets (one sheet is on both sides) and the worksheets are due on Wednesday.    There are a total of three bonus activities - one on the bottom of each page.  Your child can choose to do one, two or three of these activities and turn them in on Wednesday, along  with the worksheets.  These bonuses are extra credit.  Discuss this option with your child.  Thanks.  Also, the Home Journal Writing Books are still circulating.  Please spend some time reading the Journals with your child when it is their turn to write in them.    These Journals are graded just li\n\nMath:  Lessons 4.2-4.4 will be completed this week.  Homework Monday and Tuesday evenings.  We will do homework with a partner on Wednesday.\n\nYour child has their Unit 3 test and a Unit 3 quiz with them.  Please review and sign and return if I requested that.  Thanks.  As always, go over the test/quiz with your child.  Please review anything that they do not yet have secured.  Thanks.  We are in to facts-multiplication and division!!!  Practice extra at home!\n\nSocial Studies:  The stories of Thanksgiving, Native American, sharing and friendship will all be discussed through many stories.\n\nArt:  We will focus around a holiday art activity.\n\nHave a wonderful Holiday and I will see you again next Monday.\n\nThanks, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview November 23, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','202-revision','','','2009-11-23 13:19:57','2009-11-23 18:19:57','',202,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=203',0,'revision','',0),(204,9,'2009-11-23 13:21:21','2009-11-23 18:21:21','Thank you for everyone who came in on Report Card Pick up!!  I am enjoying teaching all your children.   Let us both push your child a little more in reading, writing and math.  Thanks for your help.\n\nLanguage Art:  Many readings this week will focus around a Thanksgiving theme.  Ask your children what stories we are discussing.  \"The Bad Beginning\" is still being read-what can your child tell you?  What vocabulary do they remember from the story?  The story has many challenging words that we are making a list of and discussing.  Our writing will focus around journal writing a little more this week.  (We are finishing up any expository writing that is not completed.)\n\nHomework:  (along with our social studies)  Your child has three worksheets that go along with our Time Magazine - Past and Present.  They will have their magazine and the worksheets with them today.  They should complete all three worksheets (one sheet is on both sides) and the worksheets are due on Wednesday.    There are a total of three bonus activities - one on the bottom of each page.  Your child can choose to do one, two or three of these activities and turn them in on Wednesday, along  with the worksheets.  These bonuses are extra credit.  Discuss this option with your child.  Thanks.  Also, the Home Journal Writing Books are still circulating.  Please spend some time reading the Journals with your child when it is their turn to write in them.    These Journals are graded just like homework.  Thanks.\n\nMath:  Lessons 4.2-4.4 will be completed this week.  Homework Monday and Tuesday evenings.  We will do homework with a partner on Wednesday.\n\nYour child has their Unit 3 test and a Unit 3 quiz with them.  Please review and sign and return if I requested that.  Thanks.  As always, go over the test/quiz with your child.  Please review anything that they do not yet have secured.  Thanks.  We are in to facts-multiplication and division!!!  Practice extra at home!\n\nSocial Studies:  The stories of Thanksgiving, Native American, sharing and friendship will all be discussed through many stories.\n\nArt:  We will focus around a holiday art activity.\n\nHave a wonderful Holiday and I will see you again next Monday.\n\nThanks, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview November 23, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','202-autosave','','','2009-11-23 13:21:21','2009-11-23 18:21:21','',202,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=204',0,'revision','',0),(205,9,'2009-11-30 12:54:34','2009-11-30 17:54:34','Welcome back!  We came back to school with a reminder that we won the prize for bringing in the most cans -58!!!  I (we) did not even know that we would get a pizza party-your children were so wonderful about helping others-thank you very much.  The pizza party will be tomorrow-your child does not need a lunch.  They can bring in an extra drink if they would like, but drinks will also be provided.  If your child paid for lunch for tomorrow, we will return that to you.  Yeah room 206!!!!\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading Make Way For Ducklings this week.  A test will be given on Thursday.  (no school on Friday)  This is a third grade book and on AR.  Your child can choose to take the test this week when they are ready.  We are also reading The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snickett-a seventh grade book that they are all enjoying.  This is the first in a great series...\r\n\r\nHomework:  Due Thursday.  Your child will have a web started today on Make Way For Ducklings.  They will complete the web at home, helping them to focus their writing.  They will answer the question  How can an environment be both safe and dangerous for its wildlife?  They will use information from Make Way For Ducklings and their own background information to answer this questions.  They will write one paragraph on \"a safe environment\" and one paragraph on \"how an environment would be dangerous\".  They should use the web to help focus their sentences.  Ask them about their word list from the story.  They should conclude their writing with a final paragraph (at least two sentences-- example....as you can see, an environment can be both...)  Can they also put in a question somewhere in their writing.  The web and the final writing should be turned in on Thursday.  Extra credit-they can draw an illustration of their writing.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 4.5-4.4.7 will be completed.  We are working on multiplication and division.  What strategies can your child tell you about solving these kind of problems.  Practice facts at home!\r\n\r\nHomework-Monday through Wednesday.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Our lesson this week will focus around \"Directions\" in map reading.  (North, South, East, West, NE, SW, etc.).  We will also make a compass this week.\r\n\r\nArt:  Echo Masks- Your children will see that flat, cut-paper shapes can be made into bold three-dimensional paper sculptures.  Our class will make wearable masks!!\r\n\r\nScience:  Your children have made and observed a thermometer.  What can they tell you about hot and cold water?  We will discuss water and energy from water by constructing a waterwheel and using it to lift objects.  We are also reading many books related to water and how important water is in so many ways to our lives and our Earth.  What can your child tell you?\r\n\r\nRemember Pizza Party tomorrow!!!  Again, thanks for all your help and interest in our classroom.\r\n\r\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview  November 30, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-november-30-2009','','','2009-11-30 12:54:34','2009-11-30 17:54:34','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=205',0,'post','',0),(206,9,'2009-11-30 12:54:27','2009-11-30 17:54:27','Welcome back!  We came back to school with a reminder that we won the prize for bringing in the most cans -58!!!  I (we) did not even know that we would get a pizza party-your children were so wonderful about helping others-thank you very much.  The pizza party will be tomorrow-your child does not need a lunch.  They can bring in an extra drink if they would like, but drinks will also be provided.  If your child paid for lunch for tomorrow, we will return that to you.  Yeah room 206!!!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading Make Way For Ducklings this week.  A test will be given on Thursday.  (no school on Friday)  This is a third grade book and on AR.  Your child can choose to take the test this week when they are ready.  We are also reading The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snickett-a seventh grade book that they are all enjoying.  This is the first in a great series...\n\nHomework:  Due Thursday.  Your child will have a web started today on Make Way For Ducklings.  They will complete the web at home, helping them to focus their writing.  They will answer the question  How can an environment be both safe and dangerous for its wildlife?  They will use information from Make Way For Ducklings and their own background information to answer this questions.  They will write one paragraph on \"a safe environment\" and one paragraph on \"how an environment would be dangerous\".  They should use the web to help focus their sentences.  Ask them about their word list from the story.  They should conclude their writing with a final paragraph (at least two sentences-- example....as you can see, an environment can be both...)  Can they also put in a question somewhere in their writing.  The web and the final writing should be turned in on Thursday.  Extra credit-they can draw an illustration of their writing.\n\nMath:  Lessons 4.5-4.4.7 will be completed.  We are working on multiplication and division.  What strategies can your child tell you about solving these kind of problems.  Practice facts at home!\n\nHomework-Monday through Wednesday.\n\nSocial Studies:  Our lesson this week will focus around \"Directions\" in map reading.  (North, South, East, West, NE, SW, etc.).  We will also make a compass this week.\n\nArt:  Echo Masks- Your children will see that flat, cut-paper shapes can be made into bold three-dimensional paper sculptures.  Our class will make wearable masks!!\n\nScience:  Your children have made and observed a thermometer.  What can they tell you about hot and cold water?  We will discuss water and energy from water by constructing a waterwheel and using it to lift objects.  We are also reading many books related to water and how important water is in so many ways to our lives and our Earth.  What can your child tell you?\n\nRemember Pizza Party tomorrow!!!  Again, thanks for all your help and interest in our classroom.\n\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview  November 30, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','205-revision','','','2009-11-30 12:54:27','2009-11-30 17:54:27','',205,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=206',0,'revision','',0),(207,9,'2009-11-30 12:55:52','2009-11-30 17:55:52','Welcome back!  We came back to school with a reminder that we won the prize for bringing in the most cans -58!!!  I (we) did not even know that we would get a pizza party-your children were so wonderful about helping others-thank you very much.  The pizza party will be tomorrow-your child does not need a lunch.  They can bring in an extra drink if they would like, but drinks will also be provided.  If your child paid for lunch for tomorrow, we will return that to you.  Yeah room 206!!!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading Make Way For Ducklings this week.  A test will be given on Thursday.  (no school on Friday)  This is a third grade book and on AR.  Your child can choose to take the test this week when they are ready.  We are also reading The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snickett-a seventh grade book that they are all enjoying.  This is the first in a great series...\n\nHomework:  Due Thursday.  Your child will have a web started today on Make Way For Ducklings.  They will complete the web at home, helping them to focus their writing.  They will answer the question  How can an environment be both safe and dangerous for its wildlife?  They will use information from Make Way For Ducklings and their own background information to answer this questions.  They will write one paragraph on \"a safe environment\" and one paragraph on \"how an environment would be dangerous\".  They should use the web to help focus their sentences.  Ask them about their word list from the story.  They should conclude their writing with a final paragraph (at least two sentences-- example....as you can see, an environment can be both...)  Can they also put in a question somewhere in their writing.  The web and the final writing should be turned in on Thursday.  Extra credit-they can draw an illustration of their writing.\n\nMath:  Lessons 4.5-4.4.7 will be completed.  We are working on multiplication and division.  What strategies can your child tell you about solving these kind of problems.  Practice facts at home!\n\nHomework-Monday through Wednesday.\n\nSocial Studies:  Our lesson this week will focus around \"Directions\" in map reading.  (North, South, East, West, NE, SW, etc.).  We will also make a compass this week.\n\nArt:  Echo Masks- Your children will see that flat, cut-paper shapes can be made into bold three-dimensional paper sculptures.  Our class will make wearable masks!!\n\nScience:  Your children have made and observed a thermometer.  What can they tell you about hot and cold water?  We will discuss water and energy from water by constructing a waterwheel and using it to lift objects.  We are also reading many books related to water and how important water is in so many ways to our lives and our Earth.  What can your child tell you?\n\nRemember Pizza Party tomorrow!!!  Again, thanks for all your help and interest in our classroom.\n\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview  November 30, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','205-autosave','','','2009-11-30 12:55:52','2009-11-30 17:55:52','',205,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=207',0,'revision','',0),(208,9,'2009-12-07 13:00:54','2009-12-07 18:00:54','I just noticed that my posting from last week-the weekly overview-was not published.  I guess it is lost in some space???  Here goes this week...\r\n\r\nJust to let you plan...we will have a Holiday party, probably next Friday.  We have been reading about a variety of  traditions and cultures.  (see Art below)  We will welcome all snacks and drinks!!  Thanks.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Our focus will be our read aloud \"The Bad Beginning\".  We have started our own individual book \"Building Academic Vocabulary\".  Working in this book daily, over the next two weeks, we will create our own mini-vocabulary building guide.  Ask your child about this project and look for their book next Friday.  I will attach extra sheets to their book so they can add to it over the Winter Break if they choose to.  We are all working towards our own AR goals-ask your child how they are doing, what they are reading and about the new charts in the room related to these goals.\r\n\r\nHomework:  (Related to our map reading with Social Studies)  Your child will receive a map packet today containing maps of the United States, Canada and Mexico.  They should work on labeling the States or Providences, the Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, etc.  They should write neatly, coloring their maps when the labeling is completed.    Discuss directions (North, South, East and West).  Remind your children that proper nouns are Capitalized and the rest of the letters in the words are lower case.  Have your children review the maps, learning from them.  These three maps should be turned in this Friday.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 4.8-4.11 will be completed this week.  Lesson 4.11 will be review for two days-Thursday and Friday and the Unit 4 Test will be Monday.  Look for your child\'s Math Journal 1 on Friday.  They can review their work over the week end, but please remind them to return the Journal on Monday.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday-Wednesday.  Thursday\'s homework will be extra math fact practice sheets, which should be returned for homework credit on Friday.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Map reading.  (This actually goes along with math work this week, too.  I think lesson 4.9.-map reading.)\r\n\r\nArt:  We will create some holiday projects.  *If your family has special Holiday Celebrations in any religion or culture that you would like to share with the class, please let me know.  I would love you to come in and read a story, do an art project or simply talk with the children about your culture or traditions.  Please help me help your children to continue to learn to be informed, bright, cultured individuals who are understanding and learning about difference in individuals and cultures.','Weekly Overview December 7, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-december-7-2009','','','2009-12-07 13:00:54','2009-12-07 18:00:54','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=208',0,'post','',0),(209,9,'2009-12-07 12:47:13','2009-12-07 17:47:13','I just noticed that my posting from last week-the weekly overview-was not published.  I guess it is lost in some space???  Here goes this week...\n\nLanguage Arts:  Our focus will be our read aloud \"The Bad Beginning\".  We have started our own individual book \"Building Academic Vocabulary\".  Working in this book daily, over the next two weeks, we will create our own mini-vocabulary building guide.  Ask your child about this project and look for their book next Friday.  I will attach extra sheets to their book so they can add to it over the Winter Break if they choose to.  We are all working towards our own AR goals-ask your child how they are doing, what they are reading and about the new charts in the room related to these goals.\n\nHomework:  (Related to our map reading with Social Studies)  Your child will receive a map packet today containing maps of the United States, Canada and Mexico.  They should work on labeling the States or Providences, the Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, etc.  They should write neatly, coloring their maps when the labeling is completed.    Discuss directions (North, South, East and West).  Remind your children that proper nouns are Capitalized and the rest of the letters in the words are lower case.  Have your children review the maps, learning from them.  These three maps should be turned in this Friday.\n\nMath:  Lessons 4.8-4.11 will be completed this week.  Lesson 4.11 will be review for two days-Thursday and Friday and the Unit 4 Test will be Monday.  Look for your child\'s Math Journal 1 on Friday.  They can review their work over the week end, but please remind them to return the Journal on Monday.  Thanks.\n\nHomework:  Monday-Wednesday.  Thursday\'s homework will be extra math fact practice 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about this project and look for their book next Friday.  I will attach extra sheets to their book so they can add to it over the Winter Break if they choose to.  We are all working towards our own AR goals-ask your child how they are doing, what they are reading and about the new charts in the room related to these goals.\n\nHomework:  (Related to our map reading with Social Studies)  Your child will receive a map packet today containing maps of the United States, Canada and Mexico.  They should work on labeling the States or Providences, the Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, etc.  They should write neatly, coloring their maps when the labeling is completed.    Discuss directions (North, South, East and West).  Remind your children that proper nouns are Capitalized and the rest of the letters in the words are lower case.  Have your children review the maps, learning from them.  These three maps should be turned in this Friday.\n\nMath:  Lessons 4.8-4.11 will be completed this week.  Lesson 4.11 will be review for two days-Thursday and Friday and the Unit 4 Test will be Monday.  Look for your child\'s Math Journal 1 on Friday.  They can review their work over the week end, but please remind them to return the Journal on Monday.  Thanks.\n\nHomework:  Monday-Wednesday.  Thursday\'s homework will be extra math fact practice sheets, which should be returned for homework credit on Friday.\n\nSocial Studies:  Map reading.  (This actually goes along with math work this week, too.  I think lesson 4.9.-map reading.)\n\nArt:  We will create some holiday projects.  *If your family has special Holiday Celebrations in any religion or culture that you would like to share with the class, please let me know.  I would love you to come in and read a story, do an art project or simply talk with the children about your culture or traditions.  Please help me help your children to continue to learn to be informed, bright, cultured individuals who are understanding and learning about difference in individuals and cultures.','Weekly Overview December 7, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','208-revision-2','','','2009-12-07 13:00:52','2009-12-07 18:00:52','',208,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=210',0,'revision','',0),(211,9,'2009-12-07 13:02:06','2009-12-07 18:02:06','I just noticed that my posting from last week-the weekly overview-was not published.  I guess it is lost in some space???  Here goes this week...\n\nJust to let you plan...we will have a Holiday party, probably next Friday.  We have been reading about a variety of  traditions and cultures.  (see Art below)  We will welcome all snacks and drinks!!  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Our focus will be our read aloud \"The Bad Beginning\".  We have started our own individual book \"Building Academic Vocabulary\".  Working in this book daily, over the next two weeks, we will create our own mini-vocabulary building guide.  Ask your child about this project and look for their book next Friday.  I will attach extra sheets to their book so they can add to it over the Winter Break if they choose to.  We are all working towards our own AR goals-ask your child how they are doing, what they are reading and about the new charts in the room related to these goals.\n\nHomework:  (Related to our map reading with Social Studies)  Your child will receive a map packet today containing maps of the United States, Canada and Mexico.  They should work on labeling the States or Providences, the Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, etc.  They should write neatly, coloring their maps when the labeling is completed.    Discuss directions (North, South, East and West).  Remind your children that proper nouns are Capitalized and the rest of the letters in the words are lower case.  Have your children review the maps, learning from them.  These three maps should be turned in this Friday.\n\nMath:  Lessons 4.8-4.11 will be completed this week.  Lesson 4.11 will be review for two days-Thursday and Friday and the Unit 4 Test will be Monday.  Look for your child\'s Math Journal 1 on Friday.  They can review their work over the week end, but please remind them to return the Journal on Monday.  Thanks.\n\nHomework:  Monday-Wednesday.  Thursday\'s homework will be extra math fact practice sheets, which should be returned for homework credit on Friday.\n\nSocial Studies:  Map reading.  (This actually goes along with math work this week, too.  I think lesson 4.9.-map reading.)\n\nArt:  We will create some holiday projects.  *If your family has special Holiday Celebrations in any religion or culture that you would like to share with the class, please let me know.  I would love you to come in and read a story, do an art project or simply talk with the children about your culture or traditions.  Please help me help your children to continue to learn to be informed, bright, cultured individuals who are understanding and learning about difference in individuals and cultures.','Weekly Overview December 7, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','208-autosave','','','2009-12-07 13:02:06','2009-12-07 18:02:06','',208,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=211',0,'revision','',0),(212,9,'2009-12-16 10:31:41','2009-12-16 15:31:41','Yeah....hopefully this will go through....\r\n\r\nHappy Holidays!!!!  We will have a Holiday Party this Friday.  Please feel free to bring treats and drinks.  We have been busy this week reading about different traditions and cultures and  their celebrations!!\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We are working in our AR books and working in our Academic Vocabulary Builder Books.  Your child will take this book home with them on Friday and I will give them extra papers if they want to work in it over break.  If they do, they can bring it back and I will give them extra credit points!  They are really enjoying this project and I am seeing many of your students using their new vocabulary words in their conversations and in their writing!  They are proud of themselves.  They are also pointing out the words in other literature that they are reading!\r\n\r\nMath:  Unit 5 is underway.  Almost all of your students did really well on the Unit 4 math test.  I will have these recorded and returned by Friday.  As always, please review the test and give your child additional help as needed.  Thank you!\r\n\r\nArt:  Lots of  little holiday art projects going on.\r\n\r\nHave a great Winter Break and Happy New Year!!\r\n\r\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview December 14, 2009',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-december-14-2009','','','2009-12-16 10:31:41','2009-12-16 15:31:41','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=212',0,'post','',0),(213,9,'2009-12-16 10:20:41','2009-12-16 15:20:41','Yeah....hopefully this will go through....\n\nHappy Holidays!!!!  We will have a Holiday Party this Friday.  Please feel free to bring treats and drinks.  We have been busy this week reading about different traditions and cultures and  their celebrations!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are working in our AR books and working in our Academic Vocabulary Builder Books.  Your child will take this book home with them on Friday and I will give them extra papers if they want to work in it over break.  If they do, they can bring it back and I will give them extra credit points!  They are really enjoying this project and I am seeing many of your students using their new vocabulary words in their conversations and in their writing!  They are proud of themselves.  They are also pointing out the words in other literature that they are reading!\n\nMath:  Unit 5 is underway.  Almost all of your students did really well on the Unit 4 math test.  I will have these recorded and returned by Friday.  As always, please review the test and give your child additional help as needed.  Thank you!\n\nArt:  Lots of  little holiday art projects going on.','Weekly Overview December 14, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','212-revision','','','2009-12-16 10:20:41','2009-12-16 15:20:41','',212,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=213',0,'revision','',0),(214,9,'2009-12-16 10:30:43','2009-12-16 15:30:43','Yeah....hopefully this will go through....\n\nHappy Holidays!!!!  We will have a Holiday Party this Friday.  Please feel free to bring treats and drinks.  We have been busy this week reading about different traditions and cultures and  their celebrations!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are working in our AR books and working in our Academic Vocabulary Builder Books.  Your child will take this book home with them on Friday and I will give them extra papers if they want to work in it over break.  If they do, they can bring it back and I will give them extra credit points!  They are really enjoying this project and I am seeing many of your students using their new vocabulary words in their conversations and in their writing!  They are proud of themselves.  They are also pointing out the words in other literature that they are reading!\n\nMath:  Unit 5 is underway.  Almost all of your students did really well on the Unit 4 math test.  I will have these recorded and returned by Friday.  As always, please review the test and give your child additional help as needed.  Thank you!\n\nArt:  Lots of  little holiday art projects going on.\n\nHave a great Winter Break and Happy New Year!!\n\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview December 14, 2009',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','212-revision-2','','','2009-12-16 10:30:43','2009-12-16 15:30:43','',212,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=214',0,'revision','',0),(215,9,'2010-01-04 12:51:13','2010-01-04 17:51:13','HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  Here\'s wishing everyone a good, happy new year!!  Your children have come back to school relaxed, happy and ready to learn!  Thank you!!\r\n\r\nA few new routines:\r\n\r\nCursive Writing:  We will be practice cursive writing over the next few months.  Your children will practice some of this at home.  Each Monday (or first day of the school week) your child will get an about 5 page packet of work sheets.  These sheets will be due each Friday.  The worksheets are mainly fourth grade sheets (but some are third).  On the bottom of some of the sheets is a practice paragraph that should be completed as they can-they do not need to write the whole paragraph.  If they do, I will count it as extra credit, but they should try and write at least one sentence from the paragraph.  This will give them some good, extra practice.\r\n\r\nWriting:  Each week, we will be working on Expository writing.  Ask your child what they did today and what words they used.  (First, next, then, second, etc.)  Our writing time will be focused on answering the question being asked, writing out our thoughts clearly using information from the text (what we read) and balancing our writing with a self connection ( relating what we read to something in our own lives or background information)\r\n\r\nMath ISAT Workbook:  Your child as a new ISAT practice math book that we will work in about 30 minutes a day.  I have already looked through the book and it seems like it will be really beneficial for test practice, but also reinforces our math concepts and skills from our Everyday Math.  We will still be completing four lessons per week in our math program.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  As stated above, we will be spending some of our time on Expository  Writing.  Several children came back to school ready to take an AR test-they were very proud of themselves!  Our next read aloud will be a Boxcar Children story from the series.  Homework:  I will leave the homework this week working on their cursive worksheets (due Friday) and reading at least 30 minutes per evening on their AR book.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 5.3-5.6 will be completed.  Homework:  Monday through Thursday.\r\n\r\nScience:  No science this week.  I will start a new unit next week-more information to follow.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We will work in our Time Magazine this week-learning about how some children go to school in Bangladesh (floating schools).  Some of our writing will also focus around this article.\r\n\r\nArt:  Letter Designs - the focus is that simple letter shapes can be used as elements of complex designs.  Your child will combine two or more letter shapes to make LINEAR or RADIAL DESIGNS.  After Wednesday, ask your child about these \"designs\".\r\n\r\nLastly:  SNACKS- We could use some more snack.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nHope everyone had a nice break.\r\n\r\nSincerely, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview - January 4,2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-january-42010','','','2010-01-04 12:51:13','2010-01-04 17:51:13','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=215',0,'post','',0),(216,9,'2010-01-04 12:50:34','2010-01-04 17:50:34','HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  Here\'s wishing everyone a good, happy new year!!  Your children have come back to school relaxed, happy and ready to learn!  Thank you!!\n\nA few new routines:\n\nCursive Writing:  We will be practice cursive writing over the next few months.  Your children will practice some of this at home.  Each Monday (or first day of the school week) your child will get an about 5 page packet of work sheets.  These sheets will be due each Friday.  The worksheets are mainly fourth grade sheets (but some are third).  On the bottom of some of the sheets is a practice paragraph that should be completed as they can-they do not need to write the whole paragraph.  If they do, I will count it as extra credit, but they should try and write at least one sentence from the paragraph.  This will give them some good, extra practice.\n\nWriting:  Each week, we will be working on Expository writing.  Ask your child what they did today and what words they used.  (first, next, then, second, etc.)  Our writing time will be focused on answering the question being asked, writing out our thoughts clearly using information from the text (what we read) and balancing our writing with a self connection ( relating what we read to something in our own lives or background information)\n\nMath ISAT Workbook:  Your child as a new ISAT practice math book that we will work in about 30 minutes a day.  I have already looked through the book and it seems like it will be really beneficial for test practice, but also reinforces our math concepts and skills from our Everyday Math.  We will still be completing four lessons per week in our math program.\n\nLanguage Arts:  As stated above, we will be spending some of our time on Expository  Writing.  Several children came back to school ready to take an AR test-they were very proud of themselves!  Our next read aloud will be a Boxcar Children story from the series.  Homework:  I will leave the homework this week working on their cursive worksheets (due Friday) and reading at least 30 minutes per evening on their AR book.\n\nMath:  Lessons 5.3-5.6 will be completed.  Homework:  Monday through Thursday.\n\nScience:  No science this week.  I will start a new unit next week-more information to follow.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will work in our Time Magazine this week-learning about how some children go to school in Bangladesh (floating schools).  Some of our writing will also focus around this article.\n\nArt:  Letter Designs - the focus is that simple letter shapes can be used as elements of complex desings.  Your child will combine two or more letter shapes to make LINEAR or RADIAL DESIGNS.  After Wednesday, ask your child about these \"designs\".\n\nLastly:  SNACKS- We could use some more snack.  Thanks.\n\nHope everyone had a nice break.\n\nSincerely, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview - January 4,2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','215-revision','','','2010-01-04 12:50:34','2010-01-04 17:50:34','',215,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=216',0,'revision','',0),(217,9,'2010-01-04 12:52:18','2010-01-04 17:52:18','HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  Here\'s wishing everyone a good, happy new year!!  Your children have come back to school relaxed, happy and ready to learn!  Thank you!!\n\nA few new routines:\n\nCursive Writing:  We will be practice cursive writing over the next few months.  Your children will practice some of this at home.  Each Monday (or first day of the school week) your child will get an about 5 page packet of work sheets.  These sheets will be due each Friday.  The worksheets are mainly fourth grade sheets (but some are third).  On the bottom of some of the sheets is a practice paragraph that should be completed as they can-they do not need to write the whole paragraph.  If they do, I will count it as extra credit, but they should try and write at least one sentence from the paragraph.  This will give them some good, extra practice.\n\nWriting:  Each week, we will be working on Expository writing.  Ask your child what they did today and what words they used.  (First, next, then, second, etc.)  Our writing time will be focused on answering the question being asked, writing out our thoughts clearly using information from the text (what we read) and balancing our writing with a self connection ( relating what we read to something in our own lives or background information)\n\nMath ISAT Workbook:  Your child as a new ISAT practice math book that we will work in about 30 minutes a day.  I have already looked through the book and it seems like it will be really beneficial for test practice, but also reinforces our math concepts and skills from our Everyday Math.  We will still be completing four lessons per week in our math program.\n\nLanguage Arts:  As stated above, we will be spending some of our time on Expository  Writing.  Several children came back to school ready to take an AR test-they were very proud of themselves!  Our next read aloud will be a Boxcar Children story from the series.  Homework:  I will leave the homework this week working on their cursive worksheets (due Friday) and reading at least 30 minutes per evening on their AR book.\n\nMath:  Lessons 5.3-5.6 will be completed.  Homework:  Monday through Thursday.\n\nScience:  No science this week.  I will start a new unit next week-more information to follow.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will work in our Time Magazine this week-learning about how some children go to school in Bangladesh (floating schools).  Some of our writing will also focus around this article.\n\nArt:  Letter Designs - the focus is that simple letter shapes can be used as elements of complex designs.  Your child will combine two or more letter shapes to make LINEAR or RADIAL DESIGNS.  After Wednesday, ask your child about these \"designs\".\n\nLastly:  SNACKS- We could use some more snack.  Thanks.\n\nHope everyone had a nice break.\n\nSincerely, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview - January 4,2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','215-autosave','','','2010-01-04 12:52:18','2010-01-04 17:52:18','',215,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=217',0,'revision','',0),(218,9,'2010-01-11 09:59:50','2010-01-11 14:59:50','Welcome to a new busy week...\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Much of our time over the next two months will be spent reading short passages, working on different strategies in answering questions related to the text.  Some of the beginning lessons, for example, will focus on root words, compound words, prefixes and suffixes, etc.  The lessons will move into drawing inferences, cause and effect, author\'s purpose, etc.  I will walk the students through some of these lessons in class, grading the work.  But, some of these lessons will be completed at home-thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nWe will also be reading in our AR books,  Map Essential Books and doing some of our language arts through our Time Magazine literature.\r\n\r\nHomework:  As always, your child should be reading at least 30 minutes each night.  What AR book are they reading?  In addition, on Monday and Wednesday evenings, your child will be completing one of these above mentioned lessons-you will see the \"Measuring Up Express\" ISAT Book I mentioned above.  For this week- Monday your child will complete lesson 3, reading the focus page, then the passage, then answering the questions on page s 13 and 14.  They will complete lesson 5 for homework on Wednesday.  Hopefully this will become routine and we will get a rhythm down in completing these lessons.  I think they will be very helpful in preparing for the ISAT but also these lessons follow the third grade curriculum similar to our Open Court Series-so it is all good  reading practice.  Homework will also include cursive worksheets-your child will have them today and they are due on Friday.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will be completing lessons 5.6-5.9 (5.6 was only partially completed-homework for tonight will be a fact practice sheet).\r\n\r\nAgain, homework will be a fact sheet tonight, lessons 5.7-5.9 Tuesday through Thursday.  In addition, your child will also be bring home an ISAT coach lesson book for some extra math practice.  We are working on completing the practice test and grading it-hopefully we will complete this today.  Please look how your child did.  (pages 231-251 when you get the book).  Each day we will try and complete one lesson in class and I will be giving an extra lesson for completion at home Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Look for these this week-your child will know what lesson to complete.\r\n\r\nBoth these extra reading and math books need to be returned each day-we will be working in them every day-thanks.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Our work will be reading and responding to stories in our Time Magazine-look for these on Friday.\r\n\r\nScience:   Our new FOSS Unit is Earth Materials.  We will begin this tomorrow-look for parent letter tomorrow to help introduce you/your child to this unit.\r\n\r\nArt:  Our lesson last week turned out really great-I have laminated their work-look for it outside our room.  Their Echo Masks will be going home this week.  Our lesson this week is titled \"Design A Monogram\".  Looks like fun!\r\n\r\nAgain, thanks in advance for the extra help in preparing your child for the ISAT\'s.  Your children have told me that they are finding the extra work that we are doing in the classroom to be helpful.\r\n\r\nWe could use some extra snacks.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nAlso, please make sure your child has some kind of red pencil, pen, marker, etc. to use when grading their work-we do this every day.  Your child should also have several pencils in their desk-please ask your child if they do.  Thanks.','Weekly Overview January 11,2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-january-112010','','','2010-01-11 11:20:08','2010-01-11 16:20:08','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=218',0,'post','',0),(219,9,'2010-01-11 09:58:57','2010-01-11 14:58:57','Welcome to a new busy week...\n\nLanguage Arts:  Much of our time over the next two months will be spent reading short passages, working on different strategies in answering questions related to the text.  Some of the beginning lessons, for example, will focus on root words, compound words, prefixes and suffixes, etc.  The lessons will move into drawing inferences, cause and effect, author\'s purpose, etc.  I will walk the students through some of these lessons in class, grading the work.  But, some of these lessons will be completed at home-thanks for your help.\n\nWe will also be reading in our AR books,  Map Essential Books and doing some of our language arts through our Time Magazine literature.\n\nHomework:  As always, your child should be reading at least 30 minutes each night.  What AR book are they reading?  In addition, on Monday and Wednesday evenings, your child will be completing one of these above mentioned lessons-you will see the \"Measuring Up Express\" ISAT Book I mentioned above.  For this week- Monday your child will complete lesson 3, reading the focus page, then the passage, then answering the questions on page s 13 and 14.  They will complete lesson 5 for homework on Wednesday.  Hopefully this will become routine and we will get a rhythm down in completing these lessons.  I think they will be very helpful in preparing for the ISAT but also these lessons follow the third grade curriculum similar to our Open Court Series-so it is all good  reading practice.\n\nMath:  We will be completing lessons 5.6-5.9 (5.6 was only partially completed-homework for tonight will be a fact practice sheet).\n\nAgain, homework will be a fact sheet tonight, lessons 5.7-5.9 Tuesday through Thursday.  In addition, your child will also be bring home an ISAT coach lesson book for some extra math practice.  We are working on completing the practice test and grading it-hopefully we will complete this today.  Please look how your child did.  (pages 231-251 when you get the book).  Each day we will try and complete one lesson in class and I will be giving an extra lesson for completion at home Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Look for these this week-your child will know what lesson to complete.\n\nBoth these extra reading and math books need to be returned each day-we will be working in them every day-thanks.\n\nSocial Studies:  Our work will be reading and responding to stories in our Time Magazine-look for these on Friday.\n\nScience:   Our new FOSS Unit is Earth Materials.  We will begin this tomorrow-look for parent letter tomorrow to help introduce you/your child to this unit.\n\nArt:  Our lesson last week turned out really great-I have laminated their work-look for it outside our room.  Their Echo Masks will be going home this week.  Our lesson this week is titled \"Design A Monogram\".  Looks like fun!\n\nAgain, thanks in advance for the extra help in preparing your child for the ISAT\'s.  Your children have told me that they are finding the extra work that we are doing in the classroom to be helpful.\n\nWe could use some extra snacks.  Thanks.\n\nAlso, please make sure your child has some kind of red pencil, pen, marker, etc. to use when grading their work-we do this every day.  Your child should also have several pencils in their desk-please ask your child if they do.  Thanks.','Weekly Overview January 11,2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','218-revision','','','2010-01-11 09:58:57','2010-01-11 14:58:57','',218,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=219',0,'revision','',0),(220,9,'2010-01-11 11:20:00','2010-01-11 16:20:00','Welcome to a new busy week...\n\nLanguage Arts:  Much of our time over the next two months will be spent reading short passages, working on different strategies in answering questions related to the text.  Some of the beginning lessons, for example, will focus on root words, compound words, prefixes and suffixes, etc.  The lessons will move into drawing inferences, cause and effect, author\'s purpose, etc.  I will walk the students through some of these lessons in class, grading the work.  But, some of these lessons will be completed at home-thanks for your help.\n\nWe will also be reading in our AR books,  Map Essential Books and doing some of our language arts through our Time Magazine literature.\n\nHomework:  As always, your child should be reading at least 30 minutes each night.  What AR book are they reading?  In addition, on Monday and Wednesday evenings, your child will be completing one of these above mentioned lessons-you will see the \"Measuring Up Express\" ISAT Book I mentioned above.  For this week- Monday your child will complete lesson 3, reading the focus page, then the passage, then answering the questions on page s 13 and 14.  They will complete lesson 5 for homework on Wednesday.  Hopefully this will become routine and we will get a rhythm down in completing these lessons.  I think they will be very helpful in preparing for the ISAT but also these lessons follow the third grade curriculum similar to our Open Court Series-so it is all good  reading practice.  Homework will also include cursive worksheets-your child will have them today and they are due on Friday.\n\nMath:  We will be completing lessons 5.6-5.9 (5.6 was only partially completed-homework for tonight will be a fact practice sheet).\n\nAgain, homework will be a fact sheet tonight, lessons 5.7-5.9 Tuesday through Thursday.  In addition, your child will also be bring home an ISAT coach lesson book for some extra math practice.  We are working on completing the practice test and grading it-hopefully we will complete this today.  Please look how your child did.  (pages 231-251 when you get the book).  Each day we will try and complete one lesson in class and I will be giving an extra lesson for completion at home Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Look for these this week-your child will know what lesson to complete.\n\nBoth these extra reading and math books need to be returned each day-we will be working in them every day-thanks.\n\nSocial Studies:  Our work will be reading and responding to stories in our Time Magazine-look for these on Friday.\n\nScience:   Our new FOSS Unit is Earth Materials.  We will begin this tomorrow-look for parent letter tomorrow to help introduce you/your child to this unit.\n\nArt:  Our lesson last week turned out really great-I have laminated their work-look for it outside our room.  Their Echo Masks will be going home this week.  Our lesson this week is titled \"Design A Monogram\".  Looks like fun!\n\nAgain, thanks in advance for the extra help in preparing your child for the ISAT\'s.  Your children have told me that they are finding the extra work that we are doing in the classroom to be helpful.\n\nWe could use some extra snacks.  Thanks.\n\nAlso, please make sure your child has some kind of red pencil, pen, marker, etc. to use when grading their work-we do this every day.  Your child should also have several pencils in their desk-please ask your child if they do.  Thanks.','Weekly Overview January 11,2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','218-autosave','','','2010-01-11 11:20:00','2010-01-11 16:20:00','',218,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=220',0,'revision','',0),(221,9,'2010-01-11 09:59:50','2010-01-11 14:59:50','Welcome to a new busy week...\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Much of our time over the next two months will be spent reading short passages, working on different strategies in answering questions related to the text.  Some of the beginning lessons, for example, will focus on root words, compound words, prefixes and suffixes, etc.  The lessons will move into drawing inferences, cause and effect, author\'s purpose, etc.  I will walk the students through some of these lessons in class, grading the work.  But, some of these lessons will be completed at home-thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nWe will also be reading in our AR books,  Map Essential Books and doing some of our language arts through our Time Magazine literature.\r\n\r\nHomework:  As always, your child should be reading at least 30 minutes each night.  What AR book are they reading?  In addition, on Monday and Wednesday evenings, your child will be completing one of these above mentioned lessons-you will see the \"Measuring Up Express\" ISAT Book I mentioned above.  For this week- Monday your child will complete lesson 3, reading the focus page, then the passage, then answering the questions on page s 13 and 14.  They will complete lesson 5 for homework on Wednesday.  Hopefully this will become routine and we will get a rhythm down in completing these lessons.  I think they will be very helpful in preparing for the ISAT but also these lessons follow the third grade curriculum similar to our Open Court Series-so it is all good  reading practice.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will be completing lessons 5.6-5.9 (5.6 was only partially completed-homework for tonight will be a fact practice sheet).\r\n\r\nAgain, homework will be a fact sheet tonight, lessons 5.7-5.9 Tuesday through Thursday.  In addition, your child will also be bring home an ISAT coach lesson book for some extra math practice.  We are working on completing the practice test and grading it-hopefully we will complete this today.  Please look how your child did.  (pages 231-251 when you get the book).  Each day we will try and complete one lesson in class and I will be giving an extra lesson for completion at home Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Look for these this week-your child will know what lesson to complete.\r\n\r\nBoth these extra reading and math books need to be returned each day-we will be working in them every day-thanks.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Our work will be reading and responding to stories in our Time Magazine-look for these on Friday.\r\n\r\nScience:   Our new FOSS Unit is Earth Materials.  We will begin this tomorrow-look for parent letter tomorrow to help introduce you/your child to this unit.\r\n\r\nArt:  Our lesson last week turned out really great-I have laminated their work-look for it outside our room.  Their Echo Masks will be going home this week.  Our lesson this week is titled \"Design A Monogram\".  Looks like fun!\r\n\r\nAgain, thanks in advance for the extra help in preparing your child for the ISAT\'s.  Your children have told me that they are finding the extra work that we are doing in the classroom to be helpful.\r\n\r\nWe could use some extra snacks.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nAlso, please make sure your child has some kind of red pencil, pen, marker, etc. to use when grading their work-we do this every day.  Your child should also have several pencils in their desk-please ask your child if they do.  Thanks.','Weekly Overview January 11,2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','218-revision-2','','','2010-01-11 09:59:50','2010-01-11 14:59:50','',218,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=221',0,'revision','',0),(222,9,'2010-01-19 13:19:19','2010-01-19 18:19:19','Ask your children what they know about Dr. Martin Luther King......   (and about Haiti)....\r\n\r\nNext month is Black History Month.  Your child will have a project to do.  They will choose a person to write a biography on.  I will be sending home some rubrics and guidelines to help your child get started.  They will write a report-5 paragraphs long (using the rubric and guidelines as  their guide).  They will then create a film strip of scenes from their person\'s life.  I have worksheets, a rubric and a check list-I will send all this home by Thursday.  In the meantime, each student will need a shoebox, cereal box, etc.-some kind of box-to pull their filmstrip through.  If you have a box or two, please send them in.  They might end up decorating the box at home, but they will get it started in school.  I would like to have these boxes by Monday at the latest-thanks.   The entire project will be due February 8th-Monday.\r\n\r\nI hope you heard about the Humanology Mobile that your child saw last week-ask them what they did and what they learned!\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Again, we are reading short stories, answering questions and reviewing our answers to see where we need to improve.    Your child will be reading in their AR book, writing in their Journal and also writing in their Writer\'s Notebook throughout the week.  Ask your child about Synonyms and Antonyms.  Play around with examples.\r\n\r\nThis week\'s writing will focus around writing an Extended Response: using their reading and critical-thinking skills to develop an in-depth response in writing to a passage they have read.  In answering an Extended Response, students should:  (your child will have a sheet with them today titled:  How to answer ISAT questions-please keep and review with them.)  In summary:  The question needs to be answered-Does their opening sentence answer the question-we talk about using  fun, interesting, getting the readers attention first statements.  They should then pull three (at least 2) details out of the text to support the answer.  Then in a new paragraph, your child needs to make a self connection -example...This reminds me of....  (or)  Once when I....    The instructors of the ISAT\'s are telling us that the information that your child writes about from the text and their own self-connection should be about the same in length.  These two parts of the writing should be balanced.  (This is different from last year.)  Then they should have a conclusion:  This can be stated as  ... In conclusion....  Or I am showing the students how to re-state the beginning statement to reinforce their  response.  Again, I will be sending home some worksheets that will help for you to review with your child.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Wednesday - Lesson 9 in the ISAT book-due Thursday.   Three cursive sheets will be sent home today-due Friday.  Reading at least 30 minutes per night.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons  5.10-5.12 will be completed.  The unit 5 test will be next Tuesday.  We will review on Monday.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Lessons 5.10.5.12 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  In addition ISAT Lesson 8 tonight (multiplication) and Lesson 10 on Thursday (estimation).  Both lessons are due the day after assigned.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We will continue to work in our Time Magazines to continue to learn about the world we live in.\r\n\r\nArt:  WE will do the Monogram lesson this week-last week we have the Learning First Tests and we did not get to this.  But, did your child tell you about the Mirror we worked with (math/art)  We made mirror images.  What does this mean?  Can your child tell you about mirror images, slides, flips, rotations (25. 50. 75 degree turns/rotations)?','Weekly Overview January 19, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-january-19-2010','','','2010-01-19 13:19:19','2010-01-19 18:19:19','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=222',0,'post','',0),(223,9,'2010-01-19 12:34:28','2010-01-19 17:34:28','Ask your children what they know about Dr. Martin Luther King......   (and about Haiti)....\n\nNext month is Black History Month.  Your child will have a project to do.  They will choose a person to write a biography on.  I will be sending home some rubrics and guidelines to help your child get started.  They will write a report-5 paragraphs long (using the rubric and guidelines as  their guide).  They will then create a film strip of scenes from their person\'s life.  I have worsheets, a rubric and a check list-I will send all this home by Thursday.  In the meantime, each student will need a shoebox, cereal box, etc.-some kind of box-to pull their filmstrip through.  If you have a box or two, please send them in.  They might end up decorating the box at home, but they will get it started in school.  I would like to have these boxes by Monday at the latest-thanks.   The entire project will be due February 8th-Monday.\n\nI hope you heard about the Humanology Mobile that your child saw last week\n\nLanguage Arts:  Again, we are reading short stories, answering questions and reviewing our answers to see where we need to improve.','Weekly Overview January 19, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','222-revision','','','2010-01-19 12:34:28','2010-01-19 17:34:28','',222,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=223',0,'revision','',0),(224,9,'2010-01-19 13:17:09','2010-01-19 18:17:09','Ask your children what they know about Dr. Martin Luther King......   (and about Haiti)....\n\nNext month is Black History Month.  Your child will have a project to do.  They will choose a person to write a biography on.  I will be sending home some rubrics and guidelines to help your child get started.  They will write a report-5 paragraphs long (using the rubric and guidelines as  their guide).  They will then create a film strip of scenes from their person\'s life.  I have worksheets, a rubric and a check list-I will send all this home by Thursday.  In the meantime, each student will need a shoebox, cereal box, etc.-some kind of box-to pull their filmstrip through.  If you have a box or two, please send them in.  They might end up decorating the box at home, but they will get it started in school.  I would like to have these boxes by Monday at the latest-thanks.   The entire project will be due February 8th-Monday.\n\nI hope you heard about the Humanology Mobile that your child saw last week-ask them what they did and what they learned!\n\nLanguage Arts:  Again, we are reading short stories, answering questions and reviewing our answers to see where we need to improve.    Your child will be reading in their AR book, writing in their Journal and also writing in their Writer\'s Notebook throughout the week.  Ask your child about Synonyms and Antonyms.  Play around with examples.\n\nThis week\'s writing will focus around writing an Extended Response: using their reading and critical-thinking skills to develop an in-depth response in writing to a passage they have read.  In answering an Extended Response, students should:  (your child will have a sheet with them today titled:  How to answer ISAT questions-please keep and review with them.)  In summary:  The question needs to be answered-Does their opening sentence answer the question-we talk about using  fun, interesting, getting the readers attention first statements.  They should then pull three (at least 2) details out of the text to support the answer.  Then in a new paragraph, your child needs to make a self connection -example...This reminds me of....  (or)  Once when I....    The instructors of the ISAT\'s are telling us that the information that your child writes about from the text and their own self-connection should be about the same in length.  These two parts of the writing should be balanced.  (This is different from last year.)  Then they should have a conclusion:  This can be stated as  ... In conclusion....  Or I am showing the students how to re-state the beginning statement to reinforce their  response.  Again, I will be sending home some worksheets that will help for you to review with your child.\n\nHomework:  Wednesday - Lesson 9 in the ISAT book-due Thursday.   Three cursive sheets will be sent home today-due Friday.  Reading at least 30 minutes per night.\n\nMath:  Lessons  5.10-5.12 will be completed.  The unit 5 test will be next Tuesday.  We will review on Monday.\n\nHomework:  Lessons 5.10.5.12 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  In addition ISAT Lesson 8 tonight (multiplication) and Lesson 10 on Thursday (estimation).  Both lessons are due the day after assigned.  Thanks for your help.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will continue to work in our Time Magazines to continue to learn about the world we live in.\n\nArt:  WE will do the Monogram lesson this week-last week we have the Learning First Tests and we did not get to this.  But, did your child tell you about the Mirror we worked with (math/art)  We made mirror images.  What does this mean?  Can your child tell you about mirror images, slides, flips, rotations (25. 50. 75 degree turns/rotations)?','Weekly Overview January 19, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','222-revision-2','','','2010-01-19 13:17:09','2010-01-19 18:17:09','',222,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=224',0,'revision','',0),(225,9,'2010-01-25 12:54:10','2010-01-25 17:54:10','Reminder  *No school on Friday - Staff Development Day.  ***Haiti money collection all week!!!  (see  social studies)\r\n\r\nEnd of the quarter is this Thursday.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Hope everyone has helped their child in deciding who they are going to do their Black History Month report on.  We will discuss this morning.\r\nHomework:  Your child should be working on their Biography each night for at least 30 minutes.  Please follow the rubric and checklist.  The completed report is due next Monday, February 1, 2010.  I  would encourage a paragraph a night to be written.  The Biography should be in your child\'s words.  If your child wants to bring in some of their work this week to show me, that would be great.  As always, your child should be reading each night for at least 30 minutes.  I will give cursive sheets  (three sheets) that will be due Thursday.  Your children seem to love practicing their cursive!  I, at least, get lots of positive feedback from them.\r\n\r\nLast week we got through a lot of our Extended Response work - I did not expect to get through so much.  So, this week we  (and next) will focus again on Expository Writing.  This week our only focus will be the first paragraph of our writing-the introduction.  The intro will consist of three parts.  The first is the \"grabber\" or the sentence that gets the reader\'s attention.  This can be a question, an exclamation,  onomatopoeia -some kind of interesting sentence.  The next sentence should answer the question being asked.  The last sentence or two should be the \"preview\" for the paper-at least two details that the writer is going to tell us about.  We are going to spend all week - during writing - on developing our introduction of our paper.\r\n\r\nWe will also be reading our AR books, reading our own and other\'s introductions, reading in our Map Essentials Books and reading from our Time Magazine.\r\n\r\nI will print out your child\'s AR report today and your child will have it with them tonight.  Please ask your child where they are in AR.  They should know.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will be reviewing today for our Math Unit 5 Test tomorrow.  Your child should have their Math Journal 1 with them today for review and study.  I will do a math project on Wednesday and we will start Math Unit 6 on Thursday-please look for Unit 6 Parent Letter on Thursday.  Our math project will be a fun one!!!  Illusions-this lesson will allow your child to \"experience geometric and other seasonal designs through the phenomenon known as persistence of vision.\"  Look for your child\'s work on Wednesday.\r\n\r\nWe are also working the the ISAT math practice book.  There will be no homework in either ISAT book this week.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday study for the Unit 5 test.  Tuesday -no math homework.  Wednesday your child must articulate the math project \"Illusions\" to you.  Extra credit:  Your child can write a paragraph describing the project and what they did.  Thursday:  Look for Parent Letter Unit 6 and 6l1 homework.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We will be reading about influential African Americans and their contributions and discussing our Biographies that everyone should be working on each night.  We will also read an article from our Time Magazine.\r\n\r\n****Most importantly, we will be collecting money for Haiti all week!!!!  This money will go to Red Cross!!!  Please give change or send in a check-the check can just be made out to Red Cross or Ray School.\r\n\r\nScience:  Science!  With writing, reading and math ISAT practice, Science is often difficult to get to.  I am going to focus this next month on the above topics.  In March through June, I am going to do a HUGE push on Science (which I love)  I will do at least two units during these months-incorporating much of our reading with science.  Your children are not tested in Science and they will be in fourth grade, so having a big push in science at the end of third grade, I think, will be a good thing.  (especially coming from a 4th grade teacher perspective!)\r\n\r\nArt:  Well, one so-so art lesson this year is not bad.  The Monogram lesson-I will either not do it next year or change it greatly-was, well, not great.  It was, in general, too many steps - I would simplify if taught again!  This week - Monogram Prints - we\'ll see....','Weekly Overview  January 25, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-january-25-2010','','','2010-01-25 12:54:10','2010-01-25 17:54:10','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=225',0,'post','',0),(226,9,'2010-01-25 10:37:48','2010-01-25 15:37:48','','Weekly Overview January 25, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','225-revision','','','2010-01-25 10:37:48','2010-01-25 15:37:48','',225,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=226',0,'revision','',0),(227,9,'2010-01-25 10:50:31','2010-01-25 15:50:31','Reminder  *No school on Friday - Staff Development Day.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Hope everyone has helped their child in deciding who they are going to do their Black History Month report on.  We will discuss this morning.\nHomework:  Your child should be working on their Biography each night for at least 30 minutes.  Please follow the rubric and checklist.  The completed report is due next Monday, February 1, 2010.  I  would encourage a paragraph a night to be written.  The Biography should be in your child\'s words.  If your child wants to bring in some of their work this week to show me, that would be great.\n\nLast week we got through a lot of our Extended Response work - I did not expect to get through so much.  So, this week we  (and next) will focus again on Expository Writing.  This week our only focus will be the first paragraph of our writing-the introduction.  The intro will consist of three parts.  The first is the \"grabber\" or the sentence that gets the reader\'s attention.  This can be a question, an exclamation, an onemonopea -some kind of interesting sentence.  The next sentence should answer the question being asked.  The last sentence or two should be the \"preview\" for the paper-at least two details that the writer is going to tell us about.  We are going to spend all week - during writing - on developing our introduction of our paper.','Weekly Overview January 25, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','225-revision-2','','','2010-01-25 10:50:31','2010-01-25 15:50:31','',225,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=227',0,'revision','',0),(228,9,'2010-01-25 10:52:27','2010-01-25 15:52:27','Reminder  *No school on Friday - Staff Development Day.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Hope everyone has helped their child in deciding who they are going to do their Black History Month report on.  We will discuss this morning.\nHomework:  Your child should be working on their Biography each night for at least 30 minutes.  Please follow the rubric and checklist.  The completed report is due next Monday, February 1, 2010.  I  would encourage a paragraph a night to be written.  The Biography should be in your child\'s words.  If your child wants to bring in some of their work this week to show me, that would be great.\n\nLast week we got through a lot of our Extended Response work - I did not expect to get through so much.  So, this week we  (and next) will focus again on Expository Writing.  This week our only focus will be the first paragraph of our writing-the introduction.  The intro will consist of three parts.  The first is the \"grabber\" or the sentence that gets the reader\'s attention.  This can be a question, an exclamation, an onemonopea -some kind of interesting sentence.  The next sentence should answer the question being asked.  The last sentence or two should be the \"preview\" for the paper-at least two details that the writer is going to tell us about.  We are going to spend all week - during writing - on developing our introduction of our paper.\n\nWe will also be reading our AR books,','Weekly Overview January 25, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','225-revision-3','','','2010-01-25 10:52:27','2010-01-25 15:52:27','',225,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=228',0,'revision','',0),(229,9,'2010-01-25 12:22:55','2010-01-25 17:22:55','Reminder  *No school on Friday - Staff Development Day.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Hope everyone has helped their child in deciding who they are going to do their Black History Month report on.  We will discuss this morning.\nHomework:  Your child should be working on their Biography each night for at least 30 minutes.  Please follow the rubric and checklist.  The completed report is due next Monday, February 1, 2010.  I  would encourage a paragraph a night to be written.  The Biography should be in your child\'s words.  If your child wants to bring in some of their work this week to show me, that would be great.\n\nLast week we got through a lot of our Extended Response work - I did not expect to get through so much.  So, this week we  (and next) will focus again on Expository Writing.  This week our only focus will be the first paragraph of our writing-the introduction.  The intro will consist of three parts.  The first is the \"grabber\" or the sentence that gets the reader\'s attention.  This can be a question, an exclamation, an onemonopea -some kind of interesting sentence.  The next sentence should answer the question being asked.  The last sentence or two should be the \"preview\" for the paper-at least two details that the writer is going to tell us about.  We are going to spend all week - during writing - on developing our introduction of our paper.\n\nWe will also be reading our AR books, reading our own and other\'s introductions, reading in our Map Essentials Books and reading from our Time Magazine.\n\nMath:  We will be reviewing today for our Math Unit 5 Test tomorrow.  Your child should have their Math Journal 1 with them today for review and study.  I will do a math project on Wednesday and we will start Math Unit 6 on Thursday-please look for Unit 6 Parent Letter on Thursday.  Our math project will be a fun one!!!  Illusions-this lesson will allow your child to \"experience geometric and other seasonal designs through the phenomenon known as persistence of vision.\"  Look for your child\'s work on Wednesday.\n\nWe are also working the the ISAT math practice book.  There will be no homework in either ISAT book this week.\n\nHomework:  Monday study for the Unit 5 test.  Tuesday -no math homework.  Wednesday your child must articulate the math project \"Illusions\" to you.  Extra credit:  Your child can write a paragraph describing the project and what they did.','Weekly Overview January 25, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','225-revision-4','','','2010-01-25 12:22:55','2010-01-25 17:22:55','',225,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=229',0,'revision','',0),(230,9,'2010-01-25 12:42:47','2010-01-25 17:42:47','Reminder  *No school on Friday - Staff Development Day.  ***Haiti money collection all week!!!  (see  social studies)\n\nLanguage Arts:  Hope everyone has helped their child in deciding who they are going to do their Black History Month report on.  We will discuss this morning.\nHomework:  Your child should be working on their Biography each night for at least 30 minutes.  Please follow the rubric and checklist.  The completed report is due next Monday, February 1, 2010.  I  would encourage a paragraph a night to be written.  The Biography should be in your child\'s words.  If your child wants to bring in some of their work this week to show me, that would be great.\n\nLast week we got through a lot of our Extended Response work - I did not expect to get through so much.  So, this week we  (and next) will focus again on Expository Writing.  This week our only focus will be the first paragraph of our writing-the introduction.  The intro will consist of three parts.  The first is the \"grabber\" or the sentence that gets the reader\'s attention.  This can be a question, an exclamation,  onomatopoeia -some kind of interesting sentence.  The next sentence should answer the question being asked.  The last sentence or two should be the \"preview\" for the paper-at least two details that the writer is going to tell us about.  We are going to spend all week - during writing - on developing our introduction of our paper.\n\nWe will also be reading our AR books, reading our own and other\'s introductions, reading in our Map Essentials Books and reading from our Time Magazine.\n\nMath:  We will be reviewing today for our Math Unit 5 Test tomorrow.  Your child should have their Math Journal 1 with them today for review and study.  I will do a math project on Wednesday and we will start Math Unit 6 on Thursday-please look for Unit 6 Parent Letter on Thursday.  Our math project will be a fun one!!!  Illusions-this lesson will allow your child to \"experience geometric and other seasonal designs through the phenomenon known as persistence of vision.\"  Look for your child\'s work on Wednesday.\n\nWe are also working the the ISAT math practice book.  There will be no homework in either ISAT book this week.\n\nHomework:  Monday study for the Unit 5 test.  Tuesday -no math homework.  Wednesday your child must articulate the math project \"Illusions\" to you.  Extra credit:  Your child can write a paragraph describing the project and what they did.  Thursday:  Look for Parent Letter Unit 6 and 6l1 homework.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will be reading about influential African Americans and their contributions and discussing our Biographies that everyone should be working on each night.  We will also read an article from our Time Magazine.\n\n****Most importantly, we will be collecting money for Haiti all week!!!!  This money will go to Red Cross!!!  Please give change or send in a check-the check can just be made out to Red Cross or Ray School.\n\nScience:  Science!  With writing, reading and math ISAT practice, Science is often difficult to get to.  I am going to focus this next month on the above topics.  In March through June, I am going to do a HUGE push on Science (which I love)  I will do at least two units during these months-incorporating much of our reading with science.  Your children are not tested in Science and they will be in fourth grade, so having a big push in science at the end of third grade, I think, will be a good thing.  (especially coming from a 4th grade teacher perspective!)\n\nArt:  Well, one so-so art lesson this year is not bad.  The Monogram lesson-I will either not do it next year or change it greatly-was, well, not great.  It was, in general, too many steps - I would simplify if taught again!  This week - Monogram Prints - we\'ll see....','Weekly Overview January 25, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','225-revision-5','','','2010-01-25 12:42:47','2010-01-25 17:42:47','',225,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=230',0,'revision','',0),(231,9,'2010-01-25 12:54:02','2010-01-25 17:54:02','Reminder  *No school on Friday - Staff Development Day.  ***Haiti money collection all week!!!  (see  social studies)\n\nEnd of the quarter is this Thursday.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Hope everyone has helped their child in deciding who they are going to do their Black History Month report on.  We will discuss this morning.\nHomework:  Your child should be working on their Biography each night for at least 30 minutes.  Please follow the rubric and checklist.  The completed report is due next Monday, February 1, 2010.  I  would encourage a paragraph a night to be written.  The Biography should be in your child\'s words.  If your child wants to bring in some of their work this week to show me, that would be great.  As always, your child should be reading each night for at least 30 minutes.  I will give cursive sheets  (three sheets) that will be due Thursday.  Your children seem to love practicing their cursive!  I, at least, get lots of positive feedback from them.\n\nLast week we got through a lot of our Extended Response work - I did not expect to get through so much.  So, this week we  (and next) will focus again on Expository Writing.  This week our only focus will be the first paragraph of our writing-the introduction.  The intro will consist of three parts.  The first is the \"grabber\" or the sentence that gets the reader\'s attention.  This can be a question, an exclamation,  onomatopoeia -some kind of interesting sentence.  The next sentence should answer the question being asked.  The last sentence or two should be the \"preview\" for the paper-at least two details that the writer is going to tell us about.  We are going to spend all week - during writing - on developing our introduction of our paper.\n\nWe will also be reading our AR books, reading our own and other\'s introductions, reading in our Map Essentials Books and reading from our Time Magazine.\n\nI will print out your child\'s AR report today and your child will have it with them tonight.  Please ask your child where they are in AR.  They should know.  Thanks for your help.\n\nMath:  We will be reviewing today for our Math Unit 5 Test tomorrow.  Your child should have their Math Journal 1 with them today for review and study.  I will do a math project on Wednesday and we will start Math Unit 6 on Thursday-please look for Unit 6 Parent Letter on Thursday.  Our math project will be a fun one!!!  Illusions-this lesson will allow your child to \"experience geometric and other seasonal designs through the phenomenon known as persistence of vision.\"  Look for your child\'s work on Wednesday.\n\nWe are also working the the ISAT math practice book.  There will be no homework in either ISAT book this week.\n\nHomework:  Monday study for the Unit 5 test.  Tuesday -no math homework.  Wednesday your child must articulate the math project \"Illusions\" to you.  Extra credit:  Your child can write a paragraph describing the project and what they did.  Thursday:  Look for Parent Letter Unit 6 and 6l1 homework.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will be reading about influential African Americans and their contributions and discussing our Biographies that everyone should be working on each night.  We will also read an article from our Time Magazine.\n\n****Most importantly, we will be collecting money for Haiti all week!!!!  This money will go to Red Cross!!!  Please give change or send in a check-the check can just be made out to Red Cross or Ray School.\n\nScience:  Science!  With writing, reading and math ISAT practice, Science is often difficult to get to.  I am going to focus this next month on the above topics.  In March through June, I am going to do a HUGE push on Science (which I love)  I will do at least two units during these months-incorporating much of our reading with science.  Your children are not tested in Science and they will be in fourth grade, so having a big push in science at the end of third grade, I think, will be a good thing.  (especially coming from a 4th grade teacher perspective!)\n\nArt:  Well, one so-so art lesson this year is not bad.  The Monogram lesson-I will either not do it next year or change it greatly-was, well, not great.  It was, in general, too many steps - I would simplify if taught again!  This week - Monogram Prints - we\'ll see....','Weekly Overview  January 25, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','225-revision-6','','','2010-01-25 12:54:02','2010-01-25 17:54:02','',225,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=231',0,'revision','',0),(232,9,'2010-01-25 12:54:05','2010-01-25 17:54:05','Reminder  *No school on Friday - Staff Development Day.  ***Haiti money collection all week!!!  (see  social studies)\r\n\r\nEnd of the quarter is this Thursday.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Hope everyone has helped their child in deciding who they are going to do their Black History Month report on.  We will discuss this morning.\r\nHomework:  Your child should be working on their Biography each night for at least 30 minutes.  Please follow the rubric and checklist.  The completed report is due next Monday, February 1, 2010.  I  would encourage a paragraph a night to be written.  The Biography should be in your child\'s words.  If your child wants to bring in some of their work this week to show me, that would be great.  As always, your child should be reading each night for at least 30 minutes.  I will give cursive sheets  (three sheets) that will be due Thursday.  Your children seem to love practicing their cursive!  I, at least, get lots of positive feedback from them.\r\n\r\nLast week we got through a lot of our Extended Response work - I did not expect to get through so much.  So, this week we  (and next) will focus again on Expository Writing.  This week our only focus will be the first paragraph of our writing-the introduction.  The intro will consist of three parts.  The first is the \"grabber\" or the sentence that gets the reader\'s attention.  This can be a question, an exclamation,  onomatopoeia -some kind of interesting sentence.  The next sentence should answer the question being asked.  The last sentence or two should be the \"preview\" for the paper-at least two details that the writer is going to tell us about.  We are going to spend all week - during writing - on developing our introduction of our paper.\r\n\r\nWe will also be reading our AR books, reading our own and other\'s introductions, reading in our Map Essentials Books and reading from our Time Magazine.\r\n\r\nI will print out your child\'s AR report today and your child will have it with them tonight.  Please ask your child where they are in AR.  They should know.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will be reviewing today for our Math Unit 5 Test tomorrow.  Your child should have their Math Journal 1 with them today for review and study.  I will do a math project on Wednesday and we will start Math Unit 6 on Thursday-please look for Unit 6 Parent Letter on Thursday.  Our math project will be a fun one!!!  Illusions-this lesson will allow your child to \"experience geometric and other seasonal designs through the phenomenon known as persistence of vision.\"  Look for your child\'s work on Wednesday.\r\n\r\nWe are also working the the ISAT math practice book.  There will be no homework in either ISAT book this week.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday study for the Unit 5 test.  Tuesday -no math homework.  Wednesday your child must articulate the math project \"Illusions\" to you.  Extra credit:  Your child can write a paragraph describing the project and what they did.  Thursday:  Look for Parent Letter Unit 6 and 6l1 homework.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We will be reading about influential African Americans and their contributions and discussing our Biographies that everyone should be working on each night.  We will also read an article from our Time Magazine.\r\n\r\n****Most importantly, we will be collecting money for Haiti all week!!!!  This money will go to Red Cross!!!  Please give change or send in a check-the check can just be made out to Red Cross or Ray School.\r\n\r\nScience:  Science!  With writing, reading and math ISAT practice, Science is often difficult to get to.  I am going to focus this next month on the above topics.  In March through June, I am going to do a HUGE push on Science (which I love)  I will do at least two units during these months-incorporating much of our reading with science.  Your children are not tested in Science and they will be in fourth grade, so having a big push in science at the end of third grade, I think, will be a good thing.  (especially coming from a 4th grade teacher perspective!)\r\n\r\nArt:  Well, one so-so art lesson this year is not bad.  The Monogram lesson-I will either not do it next year or change it greatly-was, well, not great.  It was, in general, too many steps - I would simplify if taught again!  This week - Monogram Prints - we\'ll see....','Weekly Overview  January 25, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','225-revision-7','','','2010-01-25 12:54:05','2010-01-25 17:54:05','',225,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=232',0,'revision','',0),(233,9,'2010-02-01 12:33:57','2010-02-01 17:33:57','February!!!  It is hard to believe!!!  Black Literature Night this Friday-your child has a note about this.\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!!! The biographies came in and everyone seemed so pleased with their report!!  They will be displayed in the hallway.  If your child needed their report to do their \"film box\", I have made a copy of their report for them-they should have it.\r\n\r\nHomework for L.A. - due next Monday-February 8, 2010 - is the film box.  Your child has been painting their box-we will finish the painting today and they will take the box home tomorrow.  Today they will have the film strips to start their project.  You have the directions and we have gone over them many times in the classroom-they should know what to do.  We have painted the box, but the boxes should be further decorated with illustrations, scenes, prompts, etc. as your child wants.  At least nine film frames  should be completed.  They should be illustrated with a short phrase or word or date(s) to go along with the pictures.\r\n\r\nThanks for the snacks coming in-your children appreciate them.\r\n\r\n*Just an early notice- I have planned a field trip to see a play \"Henry and Mudge\" April 28th-a Wednesday at Copernicus Center 5216 W. Lawrence.  Just to let you know ahead of time-mark your calendar, but I will send permission slip later-the cost is $12.00.  This covers the play and the bus.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Besides the African American Project we will be reading stories each day about African Americans or stories that have been written by African Americans.  Last week, in writing, we practiced writing an introduction- 1.  Starting with a  \"grabber\" - an interesting sentence-, the second sentence actually answering the question being asked, and the third and fourth sentences giving 2 previews or generalizations of what the next two paragraphs will be.\r\n\r\nExample:  How would you change the lunchroom?  Start with a grabber.  Then name two changes-say noise level and furniture (or food, or whatever).\r\n\r\nThis week we will write our first paragraph - our intro - then move on to the next two paragraph and give details about our two previews - say the noise (one paragraph, giving how we would improve the noise level) and the furniture (second paragraph giving detail about what we might change and how)  All week we will work on the two detail paragraphs using different prompts each day.\r\n\r\nWe are also working in our ISAT language arts book-at least three lessons this week.\r\n\r\nI have asked your children to review with you, tonight, a new AR goal for them this quarter.  Please discuss this with them and they should come in tomorrow with some idea of how many points they want to aim for this quarter.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Again, the \"film strip\" with box due next Monday.  I will again send three cursive worksheets today, due Friday.  I received many complaints from your children that they did not get any last week!!  Most of the kids seem to really want to practice.\r\n\r\nMath:  Unit 6, lessons 1 through 4.  Look for the parent letter Unit 6 today.  In addition we will cover 3 or 4 ISAT lessons in math, grading and reviewing as we go along.\r\n\r\nHomework each night, Monday through Thursday.\r\n\r\nArt:  We will do an \"Andy Warholish\" project on Obama this week-it will be displayed in the hallway for all to enjoy.\r\n\r\nSocial Studeis:  Lots of African American discussions, books being read and reports being presented.  Your child will sign up to give their three minute talk this week.  I have a rubric that I will get to them.','Weekly Overview  February 1, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-february-1-2010','','','2010-02-01 12:33:57','2010-02-01 17:33:57','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=233',0,'post','',0),(234,9,'2010-02-01 11:51:47','2010-02-01 16:51:47','February!!!  It is hard to believe!!!\n\nThanks for the snacks coming in-your children appreciate them.\n\n*Just an early notice- I have planned a field trip to see a play \"Henry and Mudge\" April 28th-a Wednesday at Copernicus Center 5216 W. 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The biographies came in and everyone seemed so pleased with their report!!  They will be displayed in the hallway.  If your child needed their report to do their \"film box\", I have made a copy of their report for them-they should have it.\n\nHomework for L.A. - due next Monday-February 8, 2010 - is the film box.  Your child has been painting their box-we will finish the painting today and they will take the box home tomorrow.  Today they will have the film strips to start their project.  You have the directions and we have gone over them many times in the classroom-they should know what to do.  We have painted the box, but the boxes should be further decorated with illustrations, scenes, prompts, etc. as your child wants.  At least nine film frames  should be completed.  They should be illustrated with a short phrase or word or date(s) to go along with the pictures.\n\nThanks for the snacks coming in-your children appreciate them.\n\n*Just an early notice- I have planned a field trip to see a play \"Henry and Mudge\" April 28th-a Wednesday at Copernicus Center 5216 W. Lawrence.  Just to let you know ahead of time-mark your calendar, but I will send permission slip later-the cost is $12.00.  This covers the play and the bus.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Besides the African American Project we will be reading stories each day about African Americans or stories that have been written by African Americans.  Last week, in writing, we practiced writing an introduction- 1.  Starting with a  \"grabber\" - an interesting sentence-, the second sentence actually answering the question being asked, and the third and fourth sentences giving 2 previews or generalizations of what the next two paragraphs will be.\n\nExample:  How would you change the lunchroom.  Start with a grabber.  Then name two changes-say noise level and furniture (or food, or whatever).\n\nThis week we will write our first paragraph - our intro - then move on to the next two paragraph and give details about our two previews - say the noise (one paragraph, giving how we would improve the noise level) and the furniture (second paragraph giving detail about what we might change and how)  All week we will work on the two detail paragraphs using different prompts each day.\n\nWe are also working in our ISAT language arts book-at least three lessons this week.\n\nI have asked your children to review with you\n\nHomework:  Again, the \"film strip\" with box due next Monday.  I will again send three cursive worksheets today, due Friday.  I received many complaints from your children that they did not get any last week!!  Most of the kids seem to really want to practice.\n\nMath:  Unit 6, lessons 1 through 4.  Look for the parent letter Unit 6 today.  In addition we will cover 3 or 4 ISAT lessons in math, grading and reviewing as we go along.\n\nHomework each night, Monday through Thursday.','Weekly Overview  February 1, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','233-revision-2','','','2010-02-01 12:22:20','2010-02-01 17:22:20','',233,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=235',0,'revision','',0),(116,9,'2009-01-26 12:07:27','2009-01-26 18:07:27','','report-card-picture',0,'','inherit','open','open','','report-card-picture','','','2009-01-26 12:07:27','2009-01-26 18:07:27','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/files/2009/01/report-card-picture.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(237,9,'2010-02-01 12:33:49','2010-02-01 17:33:49','February!!!  It is hard to believe!!!  Black Literature Night this Friday-your child has a note about this.\n\nTHANK YOU!! 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Lawrence.  Just to let you know ahead of time-mark your calendar, but I will send permission slip later-the cost is $12.00.  This covers the play and the bus.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Besides the African American Project we will be reading stories each day about African Americans or stories that have been written by African Americans.  Last week, in writing, we practiced writing an introduction- 1.  Starting with a  \"grabber\" - an interesting sentence-, the second sentence actually answering the question being asked, and the third and fourth sentences giving 2 previews or generalizations of what the next two paragraphs will be.\n\nExample:  How would you change the lunchroom?  Start with a grabber.  Then name two changes-say noise level and furniture (or food, or whatever).\n\nThis week we will write our first paragraph - our intro - then move on to the next two paragraph and give details about our two previews - say the noise (one paragraph, giving how we would improve the noise 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Friday.\n\nHomework:  Monday through Thursday-lessons 9.4-9.7\n\nArt:  We are working on our Chicago Maps and creating an Earth Day poster-we will continue on both of these this week.\n\nSocial Studies:  See above with the Chicago Book and Maps.  We are also working in our Map Essentials Book.  The activity this week is Reading A Community Map-fits right in with our Chicago Map!\n\nScience:  We are finishing up our Earth Materials Unit.  What properties can your child tell you about Calcite and how it reacts and is detected in rocks.  What can they tell you about rocks and minerals?  We will just touch on a Sound Unit (this information is reviewed in upper grades again) and we will be starting a Life Science Unit in about 2 weeks.','Weekly Overview April 26, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','269-revision','','','2010-04-27 08:29:02','2010-04-27 13:29:02','',269,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=270',0,'revision','',0),(269,9,'2010-04-27 08:31:52','2010-04-27 13:31:52','Hello.  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stories-these are a little challenging-work extra with your child at home if needed.  Thanks.  The Unit 9 Math Test will probably be next Friday.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday through Thursday-lessons 9.4-9.7\r\n\r\nArt:  We are working on our Chicago Maps and creating an Earth Day poster-we will continue on both of these this week.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  See above with the Chicago Book and Maps.  We are also working in our Map Essentials Book.  The activity this week is Reading a Community Map-fits right in with our Chicago Map!\r\n\r\nScience:  We are finishing up our Earth Materials Unit.  What properties can your child tell you about Calcite and how it reacts and is detected in rocks?  What can they tell you about rocks and minerals?  We will just touch on a Sound Unit (this information is reviewed in upper grades again) and we will be starting a Life Science Unit in about 2 weeks.','Weekly Overview April 26, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-april-26-2010','','','2010-04-27 08:31:52','2010-04-27 13:31:52','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=269',0,'post','',0),(242,9,'2010-02-08 14:14:32','2010-02-08 19:14:32','A three day week!!!!  Wow!  Lots to do....\n\nFirst of all...did you know that your children raised over $110.00 for Haiti!!!!  I know we could not have done it without you, but your children are amazing-they all cared enough to go home and talk about it with you!!  Many, many thanks.\n\nSecondly....Valentine\'s  Day is Sunday....so we will celebrate it this Wednesday from about 2:00 until 2:45.  We then go to Spanish class.  Your child has a class list with them today.  If your child wants to make cards (hand made are great!) or bring in a treat, that is fine, but not necessary.  We have 30 students!!!\n\nYour children are all working very hard.  I hear \"do we get to read now?\", \"when do we get to write-I love writing...\"  These comments make my day!!!  Thanks for all your help.  I am seeing wonderful learners.  I have seen so many gains in everyone\'s writing and reading skills.  They are all critically viewing their work and can see their own gains-it is wonderful!\n\nLanguage Arts:  Each day we will complete an ISAT Reading Lesson and your child will take their ISAT book home to review what they have learned.  Today was extended-response writing.  Please look what your child did, they should complete their writing if they did not.  Tomorrow\'s lesson will be \"Theme\" of a story and on Wednesday we will have another extended-response lesson.  They will have their books both Monday and Tuesday evenings to show you their work.  They will also have time to do their 30 or more minutes of reading and have time to work on their Valentine\'s.  Can your child tell you about Expository Writing and Extended\n\nMost film boxes came in today-they look wonderful and are on display in the hallway.  Your child will sign up for a three minute talk about the person they researched.  Ask your child what day their talk is and have them practice at home.  I have a rubric I will get to them today or tomorrow.\n\nMath:  We are working in our ISAT books - learning about Volume and Number Sentences this week.  We will also complete lessons 6.4 and 6.5.  Homework both Monday and Tuesday.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will continue to read and discuss famous African Americans and their stories.\n\nArt:  We will do a holiday art project on Wednesday.  I will do the President Obama art project with them the last week of February.','Weekly Overview    February 8, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','238-revision-4','','','2010-02-08 14:14:32','2010-02-08 19:14:32','',238,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=242',0,'revision','',0),(243,9,'2010-02-08 14:20:26','2010-02-08 19:20:26','A three day week!!!!  Wow!  Lots to do....\n\nFirst of all...did you know that your children collected over $110.00 for Haiti!!!!  I know we could not have done it without you, but your children are amazing-they all cared enough to go home and talk about it with you!!  Many, many thanks.\n\nSecondly....Valentine\'s  Day is Sunday....so we will celebrate it this Wednesday from about 2:00 until 2:45.  We then go to Spanish class.  Your child has a class list with them today.  If your child wants to make cards (hand made are great!) or bring in a treat, that is fine, but not necessary.  We have 30 students!!!\n\nYour children are all working very hard.  I hear \"do we get to read now?\", \"when do we get to write-I love writing...\"  These comments make my day!!!  Thanks for all your help.  I am seeing wonderful learners.  I have seen so many gains in every one\'s writing and reading skills.  They are all critically viewing their work and can see their own gains-it is wonderful!\n\nLanguage Arts:  Each day we will complete an ISAT Reading Lesson and your child will take their ISAT book home to review what they have learned.  Today was extended-response writing.  Please look what your child did, they should complete their writing if they did not.  Tomorrow\'s lesson will be \"Theme\" of a story and on Wednesday we will have another extended-response lesson.  They will have their books both Monday and Tuesday evenings to show you their work.  They will also have time to do their 30 or more minutes of reading and have time to work on their Valentine\'s.  Can your child tell you about Expository Writing and Extended-Response writing and the difference??  They should be able to articulate the differences.\n\nMost film boxes came in today-they look wonderful and are on display in the hallway.  Your child will sign up for a three minute talk about the person they researched.  Ask your child what day their talk is and have them practice at home.  I have a rubric I will get to them today or tomorrow.\n\nMath:  We are working in our ISAT books - learning about Volume and Number Sentences this week.  We will also complete lessons 6.4 and 6.5.  Homework both Monday and Tuesday.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will continue to read and discuss famous African Americans and their stories.\n\nArt:  We will do a holiday art project on Wednesday.  I will do the President Obama art project with them the last week of February.','Weekly Overview    February 8, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','238-revision-5','','','2010-02-08 14:20:26','2010-02-08 19:20:26','',238,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=243',0,'revision','',0),(244,9,'2010-02-25 13:15:11','2010-02-25 18:15:11','Hello.  Just a quick note to let you know to look for a parent letter tonight.  Attached to the letter are many items- the ISAT test schedule, your child\'s current Math and Reading Benchmark Assessement Results, a practice math ISAT  (that you should go over with your child) plus other information.\r\n\r\nYour child will have both their Math and Reading ISAT books with them tomorrow.  The math extended response will also go home tomorrow (not today) so look for items both today and tomorrow.\r\n\r\nHope to see everyone tomorrow for the Black History Month Gallery Walk.\r\n\r\nAgain, many thanks for all your help.\r\n\r\nJean Clement','February 25, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','february-25-2010','','','2010-02-25 13:15:11','2010-02-25 18:15:11','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=244',0,'post','',0),(245,9,'2010-02-25 13:14:16','2010-02-25 18:14:16','Hello.  Just a quick note to let you know to look for a parent letter tonight.  Attached to the letter are many items- the ISAT test schedule, your child\'s current Math and Reading Benchmark Assessement Results, a practice math ISAT  (that you should go over with your child) plus other information.\n\nYour child will have both their Math and Reading ISAT books with them tomorrow.  The math extended response will also go home tomorrow (not today) so look for items both today and tomorrow.\n\nHope to see everyone tomorrow for the Black History Month Gallery Walk.','February 25, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','244-revision','','','2010-02-25 13:14:16','2010-02-25 18:14:16','',244,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=245',0,'revision','',0),(246,9,'2010-03-02 13:09:22','2010-03-02 18:09:22','Wow!  One down.  Six to go!  Your children were very well prepared for this morning in  ISAT  Reading.  I  think most everyone did very well.  They stayed focused (and confident and happy).  This afternoon we will have our Expository Writing, then on to more Reading and Math.  Please refer to the testing schedule that you have.\r\n\r\nHomework for the week:  I will be sending home both the ISAT Reading and Math to be reviewed as you see needed.  I would encourage them to go over what they have already seen, just for review and confidence.  I will also be going over some of this in class as we have time, so please have them return with both books each day to school.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nAs most of the mornings are taken up with ISAT, only in the afternoon will we continue with some math.  We will also try and have some quiet reading time each day.  Spanish class will continue as usual because it is last period.\r\n\r\nWe will also be doing some extra art projects and by Thursday we will start making \"rocks\" to study.  A parent letter will go home on Science on Thursday.\r\n\r\nThanks for the snacks-we could use more this week.  Thanks to the parents who brought snacks, gum and mints in today.  Everyone enjoyed!','Weekly Overview March 2, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-march-2-2010','','','2010-03-02 13:09:22','2010-03-02 18:09:22','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=246',0,'post','',0),(247,9,'2010-03-02 13:04:52','2010-03-02 18:04:52','Wow!  One down.  Six to go!  Your children were very well prepared for this mornings ISAT in Reading.  I  think most everyone did very well.  They stayed focused (and confident and happy).  This afternoon we will have our Expository Writing, then on to more Reading and Math.  Please refer to the testing schedule that you have.\n\nHomework for the week:  I will be sending home both the ISAT Reading and Math to be reviewed as you see needed.  I would encourage them to go over what they have already seen, just for review and confidence.  I will also be going over some of this in class as we have time, so please have them return with both books each day to school.  Thanks.\n\nAs most of the mornings are taken up with ISAT, only in the afternoon will we continue with some math.  We will also try and have some qu\n\nWe will also be doing some extra art projects and by Thursday we will start making \"rocks\" to study.  A parent letter will go home on Science on Thursday.\n\nThanks for the snacks-we could use more this week.  Thanks to the parents who brought snacks, gum and mints in today.  Everyone enjoyed!','Weekly Overview March 2, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','246-revision','','','2010-03-02 13:04:52','2010-03-02 18:04:52','',246,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=247',0,'revision','',0),(248,9,'2010-03-02 13:06:49','2010-03-02 18:06:49','Wow!  One down.  Six to go!  Your children were very well prepared for this mornings ISAT in Reading.  I  think most everyone did very well.  They stayed focused (and confident and happy).  This afternoon we will have our Expository Writing, then on to more Reading and Math.  Please refer to the testing schedule that you have.\n\nHomework for the week:  I will be sending home both the ISAT Reading and Math to be reviewed as you see needed.  I would encourage them to go over what they have already seen, just for review and confidence.  I will also be going over some of this in class as we have time, so please have them return with both books each day to school.  Thanks.\n\nAs most of the mornings are taken up with ISAT, only in the afternoon will we continue with some math.  We will also try and have some quiet reading time each day.  Spanish class will continue as usual because it is last period.\n\nWe will also be doing some extra art projects and by Thursday we will start making \"rocks\" to study.  A parent letter will go home on Science on Thursday.\n\nThanks for the snacks-we could use more this week.  Thanks to the parents who brought snacks, gum and mints in today.  Everyone enjoyed!','Weekly Overview March 2, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','246-revision-2','','','2010-03-02 13:06:49','2010-03-02 18:06:49','',246,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=248',0,'revision','',0),(249,9,'2010-03-08 14:12:57','2010-03-08 19:12:57','ISAT\'s.  We have completed the Reading sessions and we have ISAT\'one more ISAT Math tomorrow.  Your children are doing very well.  They are all trying to stay focused and they are doing their best work!  The increase in their writing skills alone in the past several months  is wonderful.  Their math skills and reading skills have also improved so very much!  Over half the class was rated \"exceeds\" in math and almost that many students in reading in the last learning first tests!!!!  They are a smart group of focused kids!  Thanks for all your help.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading the chapter book The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  Your children can take the AR test if they wish.  I will finished the book in about two and a half weeks.  It is a beautiful springtime story.  Your child should have shared their AR record with you yesterday.  We are half way through the quarter (midterm reports go out Wednesday) so they should be half way to their AR goal.    Along with our Social Studies this week, we will be reading some of the stories for our language arts time.  The articles are about \"Testing\" and the Olympics.  We will be reading these articles, discussing and working with a partner, asking some questions about these articles.  We will also, starting Wednesday, getting back to reading to our Buddies in Ms. Jane\'s room.  Lastly, we will continue to work on our cursive writing.\r\n\r\nHomework for Wednesday and Thursday will be for your children to read at least45 minutes each night.\r\n\r\nMath: Your child has taken the Unit 6 Math Test.  I read them the problems to help them with the test. (A little extra help because they have been working so hard on the ISAT\'s.)  Your child has their test today to show you.  Most students did very well.  We have started Unit 7 and you should have the parent letter.  We will complet lessons 7.2 through 7.5 this week.\r\n\r\nHomework.  Math homework will start again tomorrow with lesson 7.3  I will do homework 7.1 and 7.2 in class.\r\n\r\nScience:  Today you should receive the Science News Parent Letter about our new science unit Earth Material.  We are making the Mock Rock today and setting up their new science unit lab notes in our Science Notebook.  We will also start a new Word Bank in our science notebooks for this unit.  Remember to ask your children what new \"science\" words they are learning.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  See above with language arts.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nArt: Our lesson this week is titled \"A Forest and Its Trees\".  Working with a variety of papers and watercolor paints, we will create a mural using the \"double-loading\" techniques to paint the foliage. (ask your child about this after Wednesday.)\r\n\r\nThanks and have a great week.\r\n\r\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview March 8, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-march-8-2010','','','2010-03-08 14:12:57','2010-03-08 19:12:57','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=249',0,'post','',0),(250,9,'2010-03-08 14:05:02','2010-03-08 19:05:02','ISAT\'s.  We have completed the Reading sessions and we have one more ISAT Math tomorrow.  Your children are doing very well.  They are all trying to stay focused and they are doing their best work!  The increase in their writing skills alone in the past several maths is wonderful.  Their math skills and reading skills have also improved so very much!  Over half the class was rated \"exceeds\" in math and almost that many students in reading in the last learning first tests!!!!  They are a smart group of focused kids!  Thanks for all your help.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading the chapter book The Secret Garden by Francws Hodgson Burnett.  Your children can take the AR test if they wish.  I will finished the book in about two and a half weeks.  It is a beautiful springtime story.  Your child should have shared their AR record with you yesterday.  We are half way through the quarter (midterm reports go out Wednesday) so they should be half way to their AR goal.    Along with our Social Studies this week, we will be reading some of the stories for our language arts time.  The articles are about \"Testing\" and the Olympics.  We will be reading these articles, discussing and working with a partner, asking some questions about these articles.  We will also, starting Wednesday, getting back to reading to our Buddies in Ms. Jane\'s room.  Lastly, we will continue to work on our cursive writing.\n\nHomework for Wednesday and Thursday will be for your children to read at least45 minutes each night.\n\nMath: Your child has taken the Unit 6 Math Test.  I read them the problems to help them with the test. (A little extra help becasue they have been working so hard on the ISAT\'s.)  Your child has their test today to show you.  Most students did very well.  We have started Unit 7 and you should have the parent letter.  We will complet lessons 7.2 through 7.5 this week.\n\nHomework.  Math homework will start again tomorrow with lesson 7.3  I will do homework 7.1 and 7.2 in class.\n\nScience:  Today you should receive the Science News Parent Letter about our new science unit Earth Material.  We are making the Mock Rock today and setting up their new science unit lab notes in our Science Notebook.  We will also start a new Word Bank in our science notebooks for this unit.  Remember to ask your children what new \"science\" words they are learning.\n\nSocial Studies:  See above with langauge arts.  Thanks.\n\nArt: Our lesson this week is titled \"A Forest and Its Trees\".  Working with a variety of papers and watercolor paints, we will create a mural using the \"double-loading\" techniques to p','Weekly Overview March 8, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','249-revision','','','2010-03-08 14:05:02','2010-03-08 19:05:02','',249,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=250',0,'revision','',0),(251,9,'2010-03-08 14:12:28','2010-03-08 19:12:28','ISAT\'s.  We have completed the Reading sessions and we have ISAT\'one more ISAT Math tomorrow.  Your children are doing very well.  They are all trying to stay focused and they are doing their best work!  The increase in their writing skills alone in the past several months is wonderful.  Their math skills and reading skills have also improved so very much!  Over half the class was rated \"exceeds\" in math and almost that many students in reading in the last learning first tests!!!!  They are a smart group of focused kids!  Thanks for all your help.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading the chapter book The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  Your children can take the AR test if they wish.  I will finished the book in about two and a half weeks.  It is a beautiful springtime story.  Your child should have shared their AR record with you yesterday.  We are half way through the quarter (midterm reports go out Wednesday) so they should be half way to their AR goal.    Along with our Social Studies this week, we will be reading some of the stories for our language arts time.  The articles are about \"Testing\" and the Olympics.  We will be reading these articles, discussing and working with a partner, asking some questions about these articles.  We will also, starting Wednesday, getting back to reading to our Buddies in Ms. Jane\'s room.  Lastly, we will continue to work on our cursive writing.\n\nHomework for Wednesday and Thursday will be for your children to read at least45 minutes each night.\n\nMath: Your child has taken the Unit 6 Math Test.  I read them the problems to help them with the test. (A little extra help because they have been working so hard on the ISAT\'s.)  Your child has their test today to show you.  Most students did very well.  We have started Unit 7 and you should have the parent letter.  We will complet lessons 7.2 through 7.5 this week.\n\nHomework.  Math homework will start again tomorrow with lesson 7.3  I will do homework 7.1 and 7.2 in class.\n\nScience:  Today you should receive the Science News Parent Letter about our new science unit Earth Material.  We are making the Mock Rock today and setting up their new science unit lab notes in our Science Notebook.  We will also start a new Word Bank in our science notebooks for this unit.  Remember to ask your children what new \"science\" words they are learning.\n\nSocial Studies:  See above with language arts.  Thanks.\n\nArt: Our lesson this week is titled \"A Forest and Its Trees\".  Working with a variety of papers and watercolor paints, we will create a mural using the \"double-loading\" techniques to paint the foliage. (ask your child about this after Wednesday.)','Weekly Overview March 8, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','249-revision-2','','','2010-03-08 14:12:28','2010-03-08 19:12:28','',249,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=251',0,'revision','',0),(252,9,'2010-03-15 15:51:08','2010-03-15 20:51:08','Glad to be having a full week of school!!  Don\'t forget that PTA is tonight!!\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading our AR books and working on our Young Authors Books.  Students who brought in their Young Authors stories, shared with others.  Everyone worked on their books today in class.  Our readings this week for language arts will focus around \"Earth Materials\" readings and information.  We will be adding \"science words\" to our vocabulary word bank in our science books.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Your child should be reading each night and working on their Young Authors Book.  They should be spending at least 30 minutes each night on their story.  They have two more weeks to complete this-due March 26th.  They also have three cursive worksheets that are due Friday.  Please help them as needed.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 7.6-7.9 will be completed this week-multiplication and division.  We will be taking a math fact test each day this week.  100 facts in 5 minutes-over half the class received 90% or better!!!  They have their first test with them today-practice at home!  The students who completed all 100 problems will be given more challenging problems and will be given 2 sheets-200problems!!!  We will have the Unit 7 assessment next Tuesday.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday through Thursday and practice math facts!!\r\n\r\nArt:  We will be finishing up our Tree Mural from last week.  We will also move on to our next lesson-\"Country Landscape\" this Wednesday.\r\n\r\nScience:  Our Earth Materials Unit is under way!  We will be investigating our \"mock rocks\"-observing and describing.  (color, shape, texture, mass, etc.-describing properties.)  We will then be taking them apart and describing our observations.  As we add to our word bank, ask your children what new words they are learning.  (geologist,  entomologist, biology, properties, etc.)  Some students have brought in their own rocks-we will add rocks to our rock museum.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We are working in our Map Essentials (what can your child tell you about our hemispheres-they should know about all 4 hemispheres, the boundaries and why we have them).  We will do some more map reading -looking at geography and communities in Australia.\r\n\r\nYour students really like to have snack everyday-we are out of snacks as of today!!!  Please bring in and remind your child to put a sticker next to their name on our \"snack chart\"!  Thanks.\r\n\r\nHope you have a great week!  Jean Clement','Weekly Overview   March 15, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-march-15-2010','','','2010-03-15 15:51:08','2010-03-15 20:51:08','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=252',0,'post','',0),(253,9,'2010-03-15 15:49:50','2010-03-15 20:49:50','Glad to be having a full week of school!!  Don\'t forget that PTA is tonight!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading our AR books and working on our Young Authors Books.  Students who brought in their Young Authors stories, shared with others.  Everyone worked on their books today in class.  Our readings this week for language arts will focus around \"Earth Materials\" readings and information.  We will be adding \"science words\" to our vocabulary word bank in our science books.\n\nHomework:  Your child should be reading each night and working on their Young Authors Book.  They should be spending at least 30 minutes each night on their story.  They have two more weeks to complete this-due March 26th.  They also have three cursive worksheets that are due Friday.  Please help them as needed.\n\nMath:  Lessons 7.6-7.9 will be completed this week-multiplication and division.  We will be taking a math fact test each day this week.  100 facts in 5 minutes-over half the class received 90% or better!!!  They have their first test with them today-practice at home!  The students who completed all 100 problems will be given more challenging problems and will be given 2 sheets-200problems!!!  We will have the Unit 7 assessment next Tuesday.\n\nHomework:  Monday through Thursday and practice math facts!!\n\nArt:  We will be finishing up our Tree Mural from last week.  We will also move on to our next lesson-\"Country Landscape\" this Wednesday.\n\nScience:  Our Earth Materials Unit is under way!  We will be investigating our \"mock rocks\"-observing and describing.  (color, shape, texture, mass, etc.-describing properties.)  We will then be taking them apart and describing our observations.  As we add to our word bank, ask your children what new words they are learning.  (geologist,  entomologist, biology, properties, etc.)  Some students have brought in their own rocks-we will add rocks to our rock museum.\n\nSocial Studies:  We are working in our Map Essentials (what can your child tell you about our hemispheres-they should know about all 4 hemispheres, the boundaries and why we have them).  We will do some more map reading -looking at geography and communities in Australia.\n\nYour students really like to have snack everyday-we are out of snacks as of today!!!  Please bring in and remind your child to put a sticker next to their name on our \"snack chart\"!  Thanks.\n\nHope you have a great week!  Jean Clement','Weekly Overview   March 15, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','252-revision','','','2010-03-15 15:49:50','2010-03-15 20:49:50','',252,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=253',0,'revision','',0),(254,9,'2010-03-22 11:40:03','2010-03-22 16:40:03','I\'m looking forward to a fun, busy week.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  This week we will be finishing our Read Aloud- \"The Secret Garden\".  You child can take an AR test on it if they wish and if they have been listening carefully to the story-most kids say they want to take it.  It is a 7th grade book, worth 14 points.  We are all enjoying the story!  I will probably finish the story on Thursday. (Maybe we will see the movie of Friday.)  All week our focus will be on writing book reports.  We have started today.  Your child is using their AR book and all work will be completed in the classroom.  Look for your child\'s report on Friday.  If your child finishes one report, they will start on a second.  Ask them about what they are doing.\r\n\r\nHomework:  The Young Authors Book is due Friday.  If your child finishes it before, please have them bring it in.  We are all reading them and they will become part of our classroom library for the next month.  Three cursive sheets will also be given out today, due Friday.  Reading at least 30 minutes each night is also a \"fun\" requirement.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will take our Unit 7 math assessment tomorrow.  We will review today and your child will have their Math Journal 2 with them tonight for review.  As always, have your child look over their homework assignments for review.   Lessons 8.1 and 8.2 will be completed Wednesday and Thursday, with homework each night.  Look for the Unit 8 parent letter on Wednesday.\r\n\r\nArt:  We will finish up our Tree Mural outside our room.  We might also draw our own \"secret garden\".\r\n\r\nScience:  Hopefully you heard about our investigation of \"taking the mock rocks apart\".  After each investigation, your child is recording their observations and questions in their \"lab notes\".  What can your child tell you?  This week we will be \"observing crystals\" and \"testing for hardness\".\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Our Map Essentials Activity is titled \"Mountains of the World\".  In both science and social studies we are thinking like a geographer!  We will be looking at mountain ranges around the world, undersea mountains and the highest mountain peaks on each continent.\r\n\r\nAs I said, we have a fun and busy week planned.  Thanks, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview March 22, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-march-22-2010','','','2010-03-22 11:40:03','2010-03-22 16:40:03','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=254',0,'post','',0),(255,9,'2010-03-22 11:39:12','2010-03-22 16:39:12','I\'m looking forard to a fun, busy week.\n\nLanguage Arts:  This week we will be finishing our Read Aloud- \"The Secret Garden\".  You child can take an AR test on it if they wish and if they have been listening carefully to the story-most kids say they want to take it.  It is a 7th grade book, worth 14 points.  We are all enjoying the story!  I will probably finish the story on Thursday. (Maybe we will see the movie of Friday.)  All week our focus will be on writing book reports.  We have started today.  Your child is using their AR book and all work will be completed in the classroom.  Look for your child\'s report on Friday.  If your child finishes one report, they will start on a second.  Ask them about what they are doing.\n\nHomework:  The Young Authors Book is due Friday.  If your child finishes it before, please have them bring it in.  We are all reading them and they will become part of our classroom libary for the next month.  Three cursive sheets will also be given out today, due Friday.  Reading at least 30 minutes each night is also a \"fun\" requirement.\n\nMath:  We will take our Unit 7 math assessment tomorrow.  We will review today and your child will have their Math Journal 2 with them tonight for review.  As always, have your child look over their homework assignments for review.   Lessons 8.1 and 8.2 will be completed Wednesday and Thursday, with homework each night.  Look for the Unit 8 parent letter on Wednesday.\n\nArt:  We will finish up our Tree Mural outside our room.  We might also draw our own \"secret garden\".\n\nScience:  Hopefully you heard about our investigation of \"taking the mock rocks apart\".  After each investigation, your child is recording their observations and questions in their \"lab notes\".  What can your child tell you?  This week we will be \"observing crystals\" and \"testing for hardness\".\n\nSocial Studies:  Our Map Essentials Activity is titled \"Mountains of the World\".  In both science and social studies we are thinking like a geographer!  We will be looking at mountain ranges around the world, undersea mountains and the highest mountain peaks on each continent.\n\nAs I said, we have a fun and busy week planned.  Thanks, Jean Clement','Weekly Overview March 22, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','254-revision','','','2010-03-22 11:39:12','2010-03-22 16:39:12','',254,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=255',0,'revision','',0),(256,9,'2010-04-05 12:10:58','2010-04-05 17:10:58','Welcome back from Spring Break!  Hope everyone had time to enjoy some of the week!\r\n\r\nThe quarter ends this Thursday.  Please remember that Ray Festival is this Thursday evening, then no school on this Friday.  Our classroom will participate in festival with two events.  One is a clown -bean-bag-toss, the other is a painting spin art.  Your child will have a note today with them and if they can work a shift for our classroom that evening (the bean-bag-toss game) please sign and return the note with the hour indicating when they can work.  I\'d like three kids working each shift.  Thanks for your help!!  It should be fun!  Remember, all money that goes to our classroom games will be used in our classroom-we talked about a pizza party and/or buying more classroom books!!\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Last day for AR points this quarter will be Thursday.  I read the obit from the NYTimes  last week on Sid Fleischman, the writer of The Whipping Boy to the class.  We discussed his life.  What can they tell you?  We are reading this short chapter book this week-worth 2.0 AR points-we will finish by Thursday if your child wishes to take the test.\r\n\r\nAll this month we will be working on Poetry!  Your child will start today a Poetry Folder, adding work to it all month, so you will get this completed folder at the end of April.  This week our focus will be on Couplets (couplets are composed of two-line stanzas that rhyme.) and Giving Poetry (giving poetry names a subject that gives an interesting or unusual gift.)  Each week we will discuss different types of Poetry and then your child will have the opportunity to write their own poetry in these different styles.  Can your child tell you and show you how to \"sign\" a poem they learned today?\r\n\r\nWe will also be writing each day in either our Journals or our Writer\'s Notebooks.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Your child should be reading at least 30 minutes each night.  Your child\'s cursive work this week will focus around Langston Hughes poem The Dream Keeper.  Your child should practice reading this poem over and over.  Then your child should copy the poem, both in printing and then in cursive. (I have attached an extra sheet of paper for the cursive writing.  This is due back on Thursday.  For extra credit, your child should practice memorizing the poem and will recite it to the class any day this week that they are ready to recite it.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nOther homework:  Monday-your child should write a paragraph (at least 5 sentences) about \"What does poetry mean to me?\"  Due Tuesday.   Both Tuesday and Wednesday they will have a worksheet on a Couplet poem that they should complete and return each day.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will complet lessons 8.3 through 8.5 this week-exploring shapes, fractions and equivalent fractins.  We will also have several multiplication/division fact tests.  They should be practicing their facts at home!  Homework Monday through Wednesday.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We will work on Map Essentials-measuring distances and working with \"scales\".\r\n\r\nArt:  Our lesson is titled \"Skyscrapers\" and we will focus on the illusion of form or volume and how it can be created by shading (appear three-dimensional).\r\n\r\nHealth:  In thinking about health, as always, please remind your children to always practice good health habits-washing hands, using tissues, etc.  Thanks for helping to remind your children!','Weekly Overview April 5, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-april-5-2010','','','2010-04-05 12:10:58','2010-04-05 17:10:58','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=256',0,'post','',0),(257,9,'2010-04-05 12:01:22','2010-04-05 17:01:22','Welcome back from Spring Break!  Hope everyone had time to enjoy some of the week!\n\nThe quarter ends this Thursday.  Please remember that Ray Festival is this Thursday evening, then no school on this Friday.  Our classroom will participate in festival with two events.  One is a clow-bean-bag-toss, the other is a painting spin art.  Your child will have a note today with them and if they can work a shift for our classroom that evening (the bean-bag-toss game) please sign and return the note with the hour indicating when they can work.  I\'d like three kids working each shift.  Thanks for your help!!  It should be fun!  Remember, all money that goes to our classroom games will be used in our classroom-we talked about a pizza party and/or buying more classroom books!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  Last day for AR points this quarter will be Thursday.  I read the obit from the NYT last week on Sid Fleischman, the writer of The Whipping Boy to the class.  We discussed his life.  What can they tell you?  We are reading this short chapter book this week-worth 2.0 AR points-we will finish by Thursday if your child wishes to take the test.\n\nAll this month we will be working on Poetry!  Your child will start today a Poetry Folder, adding work to it all month, so you will get this completed folder at the end of April.  This week our focus will be on Couplets (couplets are composed of two-line stanzas that rhyme.) andGiving Poetry (giving poetry names a subject that gives an interesting or unusual gift.)  Each week we will discuss different types of Poetry and then your child will have the opportunity to write their own poetry in these different styles.  Can your child tell you and show you how to \"sign\" a poem they learned today?\n\nWe will also be writing each day in either our Journals or our Writer\'s Notebooks.\n\nHomework:  Your child should be reading at least 30 minutes each night.  Your chid\'s cursive work this week will focus around angston Hughes poem The Dream Keeper.  Your child should practice reading this poem over and over.  Then your child should copy the poem, both in printing and then in cursive. (I have attached an extra sheet of paper for the cursive writing.  This is due back on Thursday.  For extra credit, your child should practice memorizing the poem and will recite it to the class any day this week that they are ready to recite it.  Thanks for your help.\n\nOther homework:  Monday-your child should write a paragraph (at least 5 sentences) about \"What does poetry mean to me?\"  Due Tuesday.   Both Tuesday and Wednesday they will have a worksheet on a Couplet poem that they should complete and return each day.\n\nMath:  We will complet lessons 8.3 through 8.5 this week-exploring shapes, fractions and equivalent fractins.  We will also have several multiplication/division fact tests.  They should be practicing their facts at home!  Homework Monday through Wednesday.','Weekly Overview April 5, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','256-revision','','','2010-04-05 12:01:22','2010-04-05 17:01:22','',256,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=257',0,'revision','',0),(258,9,'2010-04-05 12:10:05','2010-04-05 17:10:05','Welcome back from Spring Break!  Hope everyone had time to enjoy some of the week!\n\nThe quarter ends this Thursday.  Please remember that Ray Festival is this Thursday evening, then no school on this Friday.  Our classroom will participate in festival with two events.  One is a clown -bean-bag-toss, the other is a painting spin art.  Your child will have a note today with them and if they can work a shift for our classroom that evening (the bean-bag-toss game) please sign and return the note with the hour indicating when they can work.  I\'d like three kids working each shift.  Thanks for your help!!  It should be fun!  Remember, all money that goes to our classroom games will be used in our classroom-we talked about a pizza party and/or buying more classroom books!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  Last day for AR points this quarter will be Thursday.  I read the obit from the NYTimes  last week on Sid Fleischman, the writer of The Whipping Boy to the class.  We discussed his life.  What can they tell you?  We are reading this short chapter book this week-worth 2.0 AR points-we will finish by Thursday if your child wishes to take the test.\n\nAll this month we will be working on Poetry!  Your child will start today a Poetry Folder, adding work to it all month, so you will get this completed folder at the end of April.  This week our focus will be on Couplets (couplets are composed of two-line stanzas that rhyme.) and Giving Poetry (giving poetry names a subject that gives an interesting or unusual gift.)  Each week we will discuss different types of Poetry and then your child will have the opportunity to write their own poetry in these different styles.  Can your child tell you and show you how to \"sign\" a poem they learned today?\n\nWe will also be writing each day in either our Journals or our Writer\'s Notebooks.\n\nHomework:  Your child should be reading at least 30 minutes each night.  Your child\'s cursive work this week will focus around Langston Hughes poem The Dream Keeper.  Your child should practice reading this poem over and over.  Then your child should copy the poem, both in printing and then in cursive. (I have attached an extra sheet of paper for the cursive writing.  This is due back on Thursday.  For extra credit, your child should practice memorizing the poem and will recite it to the class any day this week that they are ready to recite it.  Thanks for your help.\n\nOther homework:  Monday-your child should write a paragraph (at least 5 sentences) about \"What does poetry mean to me?\"  Due Tuesday.   Both Tuesday and Wednesday they will have a worksheet on a Couplet poem that they should complete and return each day.\n\nMath:  We will complet lessons 8.3 through 8.5 this week-exploring shapes, fractions and equivalent fractins.  We will also have several multiplication/division fact tests.  They should be practicing their facts at home!  Homework Monday through Wednesday.\n\nSocial Studies:  We will work on Map Essentials-measuring distances and working with \"scales\".\n\nArt:  Our lesson is titled \"Skyscrapers\" and we will focus on the illusion of form or volume and how it 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12:18:28','2010-04-13 17:18:28','rt:','Weekly Overview April 12, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','259-autosave','','','2010-04-13 12:18:28','2010-04-13 17:18:28','',259,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=262',0,'revision','',0),(263,9,'2010-04-13 15:32:41','2010-04-13 20:32:41','Oh....my WHOLE blog got deleted!!!\r\n\r\nA short blog for now...\r\n\r\nI have all field trip forms for next Monday.  If you can walk with us, please let me know.  Thanks.  Please sign and return the next field trip form for our April 28th play.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Your child has an AR goal that you should sign and return.  We are working on Couplet and Giving Poetry.  We read an article on \"Schools Bribing Students\".  What can your child tell you?  We are writing an Expository on this article.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday and Tuesday-Giving poem.  Wednesday your child will be given the assignment to write both a couplet poem and a giving poem-both poems are due Friday.\r\n\r\nYour child should have signed up to give a talk on their Young Author\'s Book.  We have started these and the books and the talks have been wonderful!!!  When did your child sign up to give their talk?\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 8.6-8.9 will be completed.  Your child will take home their Math Journal 2 workbook on Thursday evening to study for our Unit 8 Test on Friday.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We are working on a Map Essentials review of lessons 1-10 today and tomorrow (if we do not finish, we will finish up on Thursday).\r\n\r\nArt:  I hope you can stop by and see our \"Skyscrapers\"  They are the talk of the school!!! :)  They really are wonderful.  This week we will design a city block.  (Keeping Chicago in mind.)\r\n\r\nScience:  We will look at minerals and rocks and observe the reactions we see when they are placed in vinegar.  As always, we will record our observations in our Science Lab Notes.\r\n\r\nI will try and send this again-hope it works.  Jean Clement','Weekly Overview April 12, 2010 (again)',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-aapril-12-2010-again','','','2010-04-13 15:33:44','2010-04-13 20:33:44','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=263',0,'post','',0),(264,9,'2010-04-13 15:25:48','2010-04-13 20:25:48','Oh....my WHOLE blog got deleted!!!\n\nA short blog for now...\n\nI have all field trip forms for next Monday.  If you can walk with us, please let me know.  Thanks.  Please sign and return the next field trip form for our April 28th play.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Your child has an AR goal that you shoould sign and return.  We are working on Couplet and Giving Poetry.  We read an article on \"Schools Bribing Students\".  What can your child tell you?  We are writing an Expository on this article.\n\nHomework:  Monday and Tuesday-Giving poem.  Wednesday your child will be given the assignment to write both a couplet poem and a giving poem-both poems are due Friday.\n\nMath:  Lessons 8.6-8.9 will be completed.  Your child will take home their Math Journal 2 workbook on Thursday evening to study for our Unit 8 Test on Friday','Weekly Overview Aapril 12, 2010 (again)',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','263-revision','','','2010-04-13 15:25:48','2010-04-13 20:25:48','',263,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=264',0,'revision','',0),(260,9,'2010-04-13 11:10:39','2010-04-13 16:10:39','Thanks for all the field trip forms for our walking trip to Mandel Hall on Monday-I have everyone\'s!!  If you can walk with us we will be leaving Ray by 9:15, returning to Ray around 11:00.  Please write me a note if you can walk with us-it is a few blocks away and free for all!!!  Thanks.  We will be returning to school before lunch, so lunch is as usual.\n\nOur next field trip is April 28-Wednesday to see the play \"Henry and Mudge\" at the Gateway Theatre -please return the permission slip and the money due as soon as possible -  We will return to Ray around noon from that trip, so your child should bring a lunch from home.  We will all eat outside for a picnic, if the weather is nice.  Otherwise we will eat in the classroom.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Your children should now have a good idea of a Couplet Poem and now, a Giving Poem.  They are all seeming to enjoy becoming poets!!  We are reading our poem to each other and learning by writing and practicing.\n\nWe are also reading an article \"Should Schools Bribe Kids?\".  We are revisiting our Expository Writing skills by discussing and answering this question.  We will also continue with this assignment tomorrow.  Ask your child what they are thinking.\n\nYour child should know their new AR goal for fourth quarter.  They have their goal written down -please discuss with your child, sign and return the paper indicating that you agree with the goal (or change it if you see the need to).  Thanks.\n\nHomework:  Your child had a Giving Poem to complete for last night.  They will write another Giving Poem for tonight-due tomorrow (Wednesday).   Tomorrow night I will give them both a Couplet Poem and a Giving Poem to write and these two poems will be due on Friday.  Extra credit will be to include an illustration with one or both of the poems.\n\nMath:  We will be completing lessons 8.6-8.9 this week.  We will have our Unit 8 test this Friday.  Your child will have their Math Journal 2 with them on Thursday evening to study for the test.  Homework Monday through Wednesday-lessons 8.6-8.8 worksheets.  Thanks.  I will review with them on Thursday for the test','Weekly Overview April 12, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','259-revision','','','2010-04-13 11:10:39','2010-04-13 16:10:39','',259,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=260',0,'revision','',0),(265,9,'2010-04-13 15:31:51','2010-04-13 20:31:51','Oh....my WHOLE blog got deleted!!!\n\nA short blog for now...\n\nI have all field trip forms for next Monday.  If you can walk with us, please let me know.  Thanks.  Please sign and return the next field trip form for our April 28th play.  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Your child has an AR goal that you should sign and return.  We are working on Couplet and Giving Poetry.  We read an article on \"Schools Bribing Students\".  What can your child tell you?  We are writing an Expository on this article.\n\nHomework:  Monday and Tuesday-Giving poem.  Wednesday your child will be given the assignment to write both a couplet poem and a giving poem-both poems are due Friday.\n\nYour child should have signed up to give a talk on their Young Author\'s Book.  We have started these and the books and the talks have been wonderful!!!  When did your child sign up to give their talk?\n\nMath:  Lessons 8.6-8.9 will be completed.  Your child will take home their Math Journal 2 workbook on Thursday evening to study for our Unit 8 Test on Friday.\n\nSocial Studies:  We are working on a Map Essentials review of lessons 1-10 today and tomorrow (if we do not finish, we will finish up on Thursday).\n\nArt:  I hope you can stop by and see our \"Skyscrapers\"  They are the talk of the school!!! :)  They really are wonderful.  This week we will design a city block.  (Keeping Chicago in mind.)\n\nScience:  We will look at minerals and rocks and observe the reactions we see when they are placed in vinegar.  As always, we will record our observations in our Science Lab Notes.','Weekly Overview Aapril 12, 2010 (again)',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','263-revision-2','','','2010-04-13 15:31:51','2010-04-13 20:31:51','',263,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=265',0,'revision','',0),(266,9,'2010-04-13 15:32:41','2010-04-13 20:32:41','Oh....my WHOLE blog got deleted!!!\r\n\r\nA short blog for now...\r\n\r\nI have all field trip forms for next Monday.  If you can walk with us, please let me know.  Thanks.  Please sign and return the next field trip form for our April 28th play.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Your child has an AR goal that you should sign and return.  We are working on Couplet and Giving Poetry.  We read an article on \"Schools Bribing Students\".  What can your child tell you?  We are writing an Expository on this article.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday and Tuesday-Giving poem.  Wednesday your child will be given the assignment to write both a couplet poem and a giving poem-both poems are due Friday.\r\n\r\nYour child should have signed up to give a talk on their Young Author\'s Book.  We have started these and the books and the talks have been wonderful!!!  When did your child sign up to give their talk?\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 8.6-8.9 will be completed.  Your child will take home their Math Journal 2 workbook on Thursday evening to study for our Unit 8 Test on Friday.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We are working on a Map Essentials review of lessons 1-10 today and tomorrow (if we do not finish, we will finish up on Thursday).\r\n\r\nArt:  I hope you can stop by and see our \"Skyscrapers\"  They are the talk of the school!!! :)  They really are wonderful.  This week we will design a city block.  (Keeping 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can.  Hope to meet with everyone on Wednesday.  Thanks.\r\n\r\n***Look for 3rd grade Chicago Play info under Social Studies!!!\r\n\r\nWe could also use some more snacks for the classroom-if you have not brought any in, please do so-everyone eats snacks almost everyday!!!  Please bring enough for 30 students-thanks.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We will continue with our Poetry Unit-learning about \"Change Poetry and Animal Poetry\" this week.  We are also working on reading our AR books, writing in our Journals and Writer\'s Notebooks and listening to or giving our Young Author\'s Book Talks.  Has your child signed up for their talk?  The talks are going really well-your children are confident and organized.\r\n\r\nHomework:  No homework on Monday-the homework could be for your child to tell you about the concert.  Tuesday:  Your child will have a worksheet to help them create a \"Change Poem\"  Due Thursday.\r\n\r\nOn Thursday your child will have an \"Animal Poetry\" worksheet to help them create this poem-due Friday.  Your child should also be reading at least 30 minutes each night-part of homework!!\r\n\r\nMath:  We are starting a new unit today Unit 9 -Multiplication and Division.  As we go through this unit, please have your child practice 15 to 20 minutes extra each night if they need the practice on multiplication and division facts.  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Tonight look for Unit 9 parent letter and homework lesson 9.1\r\n\r\nTuesday and Thursday 9.2 and 9.3 Homelinks.\r\n\r\nArt:  We will be working on our Chicago Murals-your children are working in groups to create different areas of Chicago.  What is your child doing?\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  We are beginning  to read about Chicago and its history, people, land, etc.  Starting (hopefully) tomorrow we will be working with a dancer and start to create our third grade \"Chicago\" play.  We will let you know the date as soon as possible.  (And any other help we might need!!)  We will also be working in our Time Magazine and discussing and completing a worksheet on \"Tigers\".  Look for on Tuesday.\r\n\r\nScience:  Our Earth Materials Unit had us observing rocks and minerals last week to see if they contained Calcite.  What can your child tell you?  We are using the acid (vinegar), waiting for it to evaporate and we will observe this week what is left after the acid evaporation.  As always, we record our observations and questions  and illustrations in our Lab Science Notebooks.','Weekly Overview April 19, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-april-19-2010','','','2010-04-19 12:13:04','2010-04-19 17:13:04','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=267',0,'post','',0),(268,9,'2010-04-19 12:12:51','2010-04-19 17:12:51','Our walking field trip to Mandel Hall\'s Concert was wonderful.  The quartet did a really nice job teaching the students about music (classical, romantic and early 20th century).  What can your chldren tell you?\n\nNext field trip is April 28th to see the play Henry and Mudge and is $12.00.  If you have not done so, please return the permission slip with the $12.00!!  Thanks.\n\nReport card pick up is this Wednesday.  Please sign up ahead of time if you can.  Hope to meet with everyone on Wednesday.  Thanks.\n\n***Look for 3rd grade Chicago Play info under Social Studies!!!\n\nWe could also use some more snacks for the classroom-if you have not brought any in, please do so-everyone eats snacks almost everyday!!!  Please bring enough for 30 students-thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  We will continue with our Poetry Unit-learning about \"Change Poetry and Animal Poetry\" this week.  We are also working on reading our AR books, writing in our Journals and Writer\'s Notebooks and listening to or giving our Young Author\'s Book Talks.  Has your child signed up for their talk?  The talks are going really well-your children are confident and organized.\n\nHomework:  No homework on Monday-the homework could be for your child to tell you about the concert.  Tuesday:  Your child will have a worksheet to help them create a \"Change Poem\"  Due Thursday.\n\nOn Thursday your child will have an \"Animal Poetry\" worksheet to help them create this poem-due Friday.  Your child should also be reading at least 30 minutes each night-part of homework!!\n\nMath:  We are starting a new unit today Unit 9 -Multiplication and Division.  As we go through this unit, please have your child practice 15 to 20 minutes extra each night if they need the practice on multiplication and division facts.  Thanks for your help.\n\nHomework:  Tonight look for Unit 9 parent letter and homework lesson 9.1\n\nTuesday and Thursday 9.2 and 9.3 Homelinks.\n\nArt:  We will be working on our Chicago Murals-your children are working in groups to create different areas of Chicago.  What is your child doing?\n\nSocial Studies:  We are beginning  to read about Chicago and its history, people, land, etc.  Starting (hopefully) tomorrow we will be working with a dancer and start to create our third grade \"Chicago\" play.  We will let you know the date as soon as possible.  (And any other help we might need!!)  We will also be working in our Time Magazine and discussing and completing a worksheet on \"Tigers\".  Look for on Tuesday.\n\nScience:  Our Earth Materials Unit had us observing rocks and minerals last week to see if they contained Calcite.  What can your child tell you?  We are using the acid (vinegar), waiting for it to evaporate and we will observe this week what is left after the acid evaporation.  As always, we record our observations and questions  and illustrations in our Lab Science Notebooks.','Weekly Overview April 19, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','267-revision','','','2010-04-19 12:12:51','2010-04-19 17:12:51','',267,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=268',0,'revision','',0),(271,9,'2010-05-03 12:18:17','2010-05-03 17:18:17','Hope you heard about the play last week-it was good for the students to see performers dancing and singing, since they will be on stage June 8th!!!  Your children all have copies of all the songs, please help them practice is nice, loud singing voices at home.  Thanks.  We will be working on a script this week and next and your child will also have some lines in the play...more later.  As always now, we will be practicing The Charleston Dance each Tuesday and Thursday.  Please remind your children that they should stay focused (pay attention to August and listen)!!  Thanks for your help.\r\n\r\nWe will also be taking a Chicago Trolley around town on Friday,May 28th (a Chicago tour field trip).  Again, more information later.\r\n\r\nAnother Field Trip - Walking to Smart Gallery Friday, May 21, 2010..more information to follow.\r\n\r\nPlease save these dates!!  Thanks.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  All week our focus in reading will be through our Chicago Book.  We will have Read Aloud, Shared Reading and Silent Reading from this book.  Today we wrote in our Writer\'s Notebook about our Likes and Dislikes of Chicago.  What did your children write about?  What can they tell you about Chicago and its history so far?\r\n\r\nWe are reading from our AR Books, writing in our Journals and Writer\'s Notebooks, and enjoying our learning and skills.  I can tell by their focus and attentions to the tasks!!\r\n\r\nWe will also be working with our Poetry Unit and working in our Poetry Folder.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Each child will create a Chicago Brochure.  Your child should work on their brochure each night this week, and next.  The brochure is due Friday, May 14, 2010.  Your child will have with them today some details and ideas on how to create this Chicago Brochure.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nMath:  Lessons 9.8-9.11.  We will be working on Division, Lattice Multiplication (ask about this tomorrow), 2-digit multiplication and extending the partial-products method to products of 2-digit numbers.  Please review homework and give your child extra help with these objectives if needed.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Lessons 9.8-9.11, Monday through Thursday.  Refer to Unit 9 Parent Letter when needed.\r\n\r\nUnit 9 test will be next week.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Our main focus this week will be on Chicago.  We will also do an activity on the volcano in Iceland.\r\n\r\nHomework:  The Chicago Brochure.\r\n\r\nScience:  We will spend the next two weeks on a Sound Unit.  Look for a parent letter tomorrow.\r\n\r\nArt:  ...still working on our Chicago Neighborhoods...','Weekly Overview  May 3, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-may-3-2010','','','2010-05-03 12:18:17','2010-05-03 17:18:17','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=271',0,'post','',0),(272,9,'2010-05-03 12:16:24','2010-05-03 17:16:24','Hope you heard about the play last week-it was good for the students to see performers dancing and singing, since they will be on stage June 8th!!!  Your children all have copies of all the songs, please help them practice is nice, loud singing voices at home.  Thanks.  We will be working on a script this week and next and your child will also have some lines in the play...more later.  As always now, we will be practicing The Charleston Dance each Tuesday and Thursday.  Please remind your children that they should stay focused (pay attention to August and listen)!!  Thanks for your help.\n\nWe will also be taking a Chicago Trolley around town on Friday,May 28th (a Chicago tour field trip).  Again, more information later.\n\nAnother Field Trip - Walking to Smart Gallery Friday, May 21, 2010..more information to follow.\n\nPlease save these dates!!  Thanks.\n\nLanguage Arts:  All week our focus in reading will be through our Chicago Book.  We will have Read Aloud, Shared Reading and Silent Reading from this book.  Today we wrote in our Writer\'s Notebook about our Likes and Dislikes of Chicago.  What did your child write about?  What can they tell you about Chicago and i\'s history so far?\n\nWe are reading from our AR Books, writing in our Journals and Writer\'s Notebooks, and enjoying our learning and skills.  I\n\nWe will also be working with our Poetry Unit and working in our Poetry Folder.\n\nHomework:  Each child will create a Chicago Brochure.  Your child should work on their brochure each night this week, and next.  The brochure is due Friday, May 14, 2010.  Your child will have with them today some details and ideas on how to create this Chicago Brochure.  Thanks.\n\nMath:  Lessons 9.8-9.11.  We will be working on Division, Lattice Multiplication (ask about this tomorrow), 2-digit multiplication and extending the partial-products method to products of 2-digit numbers.  Please review homework and give your child extra help with these objectives if needed.  Thanks.\n\nHomework:  Lessons 9.8-9.11, Monday thorugh Thursday.  Refer to Unit 9 Parent Letter when needed.\n\nUnit 9 test will be next week.\n\nSocial Studies:  Our main focus this week will be on Chicago.  We will also do an activity on the volcano in Iceland.\n\nHomework:  The Chicago Brochure.\n\nScience:  We will spend the next two weeks on a Sound Unit.  Look for a parent letter tomorrow.\n\nArt:  ...still working on our Chicago Neighborhoods...','Weekly Overview  May 3, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','271-revision','','','2010-05-03 12:16:24','2010-05-03 17:16:24','',271,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=272',0,'revision','',0),(273,9,'2010-05-10 12:11:55','2010-05-10 17:11:55','Field Trip Updates:\r\n\r\nThanks to everyone who has gotten The Smart Museum field trip for in.  If you have not, please do so.  It is free, but I need the permission slips as soon as possible!  Thanks to all the parents who can walk with us-we have 5 parents signed up to go!!!  Thanks!!\r\n\r\nWe will also be going on a Field Trip Friday May 28, 2010.  We will be taking the Chicago Trolley Car around the city for a Chicago Tour!!!  Should be wonderful!  We will have lunch in Grant Park (your child will need to bring a lunch.)  We will be leaving Ray at 10:00, returning around 2:00.  Your child has the permission slip-the cost is $13.00.  Pleas sign and return it as soon as you can.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nWe are practicing our dance every Tuesday and Thursday for one hour.  Please remember that your child should wear comfortable shoes to dance in on those days.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nMid-term reports will go home next week.\r\n\r\nWe will see the Chicago Children Choir perform this afternoon.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  Monday and Tuesday during our language arts time, your children are taking the Learning First Test.  When I receive the results, I will send them on to you. Today was Reading, tomorrow will be Math.\r\n\r\nIn addition, we will be reading all week about Chicago.  We are creating a folder-book with all our work.  Ask your child what they have learned!  This week we will also create a Chicago Poem.  Please continue to have your child read each night for at least 30 minutes.  What AR book are they enjoying?  As always, thanks for your help.  I will print out your child\'s AR report so far this quarter.  Look for it on Wednesday.  The quarter is almost half over, so your child should have about half of their AR goal for this quarter.\r\n\r\nHomework:  The Chicago Brochure is due by Friday.   Your child will also have another cursive worksheet-I want to say thank you for helping your child to learn cursive at home.  It is something that has helped many of the students improve on their handwriting and it is something they can practice at home-we are so busy during the day that it is great they can do the cursive at home.  Some of them are getting really good at it!!\r\n\r\nIf your child wants to do an extra Chicago Brochure for extra credit, that is fine.  When the brochures are turned in, they are being displayed next to their Skyscraper project in the hallway.  Please stop by and see!!\r\n\r\nWe are also writing in our Journals and in our Writer\'s Notebook.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will be completing Unit 9 this week.  Lessons 9.11-9.14 will be completed, Monday through Thursday.  Our Unit 9 Test will be on Friday.  Your child will have their Math Journal 2 with them on Thursday to review for the test.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday through Wednesday, with the Math Journal 2 going home on Thursday.  The Journal must be returned on Friday.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Along with our Chicago Unit we are also working in our Time Magazine and keeping up on some current events.\r\n\r\nArt:  Our Chicago Posters have taken on a life of their own!!  We will work on them Wednesday and Thursday and try to have them finished this week.\r\n\r\nScience:  We are doing a few experiments in our Sound Unit this week.  Today-how sound travels.\r\n\r\nWe will have crayfish delivered here on Wednesday to also start our Life Science Unit.  It should be lots of fun!!','Weekly Overview  May 10, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-may-10-2010','','','2010-05-10 12:11:55','2010-05-10 17:11:55','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=273',0,'post','',0),(274,9,'2010-05-10 12:11:22','2010-05-10 17:11:22','Field Trip Updates:\n\nThanks to everyone who has gotten The Smart Museum field trip for in.  If you have not, please do so.  It is free, but I need the permission slips as soon as possible!  Thanks to all the parents who can walk with us-we have 5 parents signed up to go!!!  Thanks!!\n\nWe will also be going on a Field Trip Friday May 28, 2010.  We will be taking the Chicago Trolley Car around the city for a Chicago Tour!!!  Should be wonderful!  We will have lunch in Grant Park (your child will need to bring a lunch.)  We will be leaving Ray at 10:00, returning around 2:00.  Your child has the permission slip-the cost is $13.00.  Pleas sign and return it as soon as you can.  Thanks.\n\nWe are practicing our dance every Tuesday and Thursday for one hour.  Please remember that your child should wear comfortable shoes to dance in on those days.  Thanks.\n\nMid-term reports will go home next week.\n\nWe will see the Chicago Children\'s Choir perform this afternoon.\n\nLanguage Arts:  Monday and Tuesday during our language arts time, your children are taking the Learning First Test.  When I receive the results, I will send them on to you. Today was Reading, tomorrow will be Math.\n\nIn addition, we will be reading all week about Chicago.  We are creating a folder-book with all our work.  Ask your child what they have learned!  This week we will also create a Chicago Poem.  Please continue to have your child read each night for at least 30 minutes.  What AR book are they enjoying?  As always, thanks for your help.  I will print out your child\'s AR report so far this quarter.  Look for it on Wednesday.  The quarter is almost half over, so your child should have about half of their AR goal for this quarter.\n\nHomework:  The Chicago Brochure is due by Friday.   Your child will also have another cursive worksheet-I want to say thank you for helping your child to learn cursive at home.  It is something that has helped many of the students improve on their handwriting and it is something they can practice at home-we are so busy during the day that it is great they can do the cursive at home.  Some of them are getting really good at it!!\n\nIf your child wants to do an extra Chicago Brochure for extra credit, that is fine.  When the brochures are turned in, they are being displayed next to their Skyscraper project in the hallway.  Please stop by and see!!\n\nWe are also writing in our Journals and in our Writer\'s Notebook.\n\nMath:  We will be completing Unit 9 this week.  Lessons 9.11-9.14 will be completed, Monday through Thursday.  Our Unit 9 Test will be on Friday.  Your child will have their Math Journal 2 with them on Thursday to review for the test.\n\nHomework:  Monday through Wednesday, with the Math Journal 2 going home on Thursday.  The Journal must be returned on Friday.  Thanks.\n\nSocial Studies:  Along with our Chicago Unit we are also working in our Time Magazine and keeping up on some current events.\n\nArt:  Our Chicago Posters have taken on a life of their own!!  We will work on them Wednesday and Thursday and try to have them finished this week.\n\nScience:  We are doing a few experiments in our Sound Unit this week.  Today-how sound travels.\n\nWe will have crayfish delivered here on Wednesday to also start our Life Science Unit.  It should be lots of fun!!','Weekly Overview  May 10, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','273-revision','','','2010-05-10 12:11:22','2010-05-10 17:11:22','',273,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=274',0,'revision','',0),(275,9,'2010-05-17 12:20:42','2010-05-17 17:20:42','Wow!  We have a very busy week planned.  Just a reminder that Friday is our walking field trip to The Smart Museum.  Thanks to all the 8!!! parents who will walk with us-we will leave Ray about 9:30-9:35, returning about 11:00.\r\n\r\nWe will also continue to practice our dances Tuesday and Thursday.  Please remember that your children should wear very comfortable shoes to dance in (gym shoes)!  Have them practice the dances every night at home.   They have also learned a dance to go along with the Chicago Fire song.\r\n\r\nUpdate:  Field Trip this Friday.\r\n\r\nTrolley Field Trip next Friday-May 28th.  We will eat a picnic lunch in Grant park-make sure to pack one that day.  I still need many permission slip forms and money returned.  Please get that in this week or at least write me a note.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nWe will have one final field trip with our pre-school buddies on Friday, June 4th.  We will walk to the University of Chicago\'s Botany Pond about 10:30, have a picnic there and return to Ray about 1:00-this is again, free!!!  Your child will need to bring a lunch on this day.  Thanks.  Please feel free to join us!!!\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We will focus this week on our Chicago Unit and on reading/writing around our Science Unit with our crayfish.\r\n\r\nAfter reading more about Chicago today, we broke off in groups and your children are starting to write the script for the Chicago Play.  We will work on this over the next few days and your child should have the script by Friday.\r\n\r\nWe are reading our AR books and doing some of our writing in our Journals and Writer\'s Notebooks.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Due Friday.  Your child will write a Description of \"How to Care for a Crayfish.\"  We will go over the format in class.   The description should include, but not limited to,  1) what is a crayfish, 2) supplies needed,  3)care and maintenance 4) feeding and care, 5)cost and commitment.  Illustrations should be included.\r\n\r\nMath:  We will begin Unit 10 today-Measurement and Data.  Please look for the Parent Unit 10 Letter.  We will cover lessons 10.1-10.4 this week.  Using tools and U.S. customary and metric systems, we will measure lengths, explore Volume and review Weight.  We have have a few fact tests this week.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Monday through Thursday-lessons 10.1-10.4\r\n\r\nScience:  Crayfish!!  We are also studying the life cycle of plants (we are sprouting Sunflower seeds) and will plant bean seeds this week.  What can your child tell you about expiration date and how our Sunflower seeds are growing?\r\n\r\nSocial Studies:  Again, these next weeks are all about Chicago and its History.  We will also work some in our Time Magazine.\r\n\r\nArt:  ......still working on our Chicago Murals...we WILL be finished this week!!','Weekly Overview  May 17, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-may-17-2010','','','2010-05-17 12:20:42','2010-05-17 17:20:42','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=275',0,'post','',0),(276,9,'2010-05-17 11:42:31','2010-05-17 16:42:31','Wow!  We have a very busy week planned.  Just a reminder that Friday is our walking field trip to The Smart Museum.  Thanks to all the 8!!! parents who will walk with us-we will leave Ray about 9:30-9:35, returning about 11:00.\n\nWe will also continue to practice our dances Tuesday and Thursday.  Please remember that your children should wear very comfortable shoes to dance in (gym shoes)!  Have them practice the dances every night at home.','Weekly Overview  May 17, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','275-revision','','','2010-05-17 11:42:31','2010-05-17 16:42:31','',275,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=276',0,'revision','',0),(277,9,'2010-05-17 12:15:25','2010-05-17 17:15:25','Wow!  We have a very busy week planned.  Just a reminder that Friday is our walking field trip to The Smart Museum.  Thanks to all the 8!!! parents who will walk with us-we will leave Ray about 9:30-9:35, returning about 11:00.\n\nWe will also continue to practice our dances Tuesday and Thursday.  Please remember that your children should wear very comfortable shoes to dance in (gym shoes)!  Have them practice the dances every night at home.   They have also learned a dance to go along with the Chicago Fire song.\n\nUpdate:  Field Trip this Friday.\n\nTrolley Fiedl Trip next Friday-May 28th.  We will eat a picnic lunch in Grant park-make sure to pack one that day.  I still need many permission slip forms and money returned.  Please get that in this week or at least write me a note.  Thanks.\n\nWe will have one final field trip with our pre-school buddies on Friday, June 4th.  We will walk to the University of Chicago\'s Botany Pond about 10:30, have a picnic there and return to Ray about 1:00-this is again, free!!!  Your child will need to bring a lunch on this day.  Thanks.  Please feel free to join us!!!\n\nLanguage Arts:  We will focus this week on our Chicago Unit and on reading/writing around our Science Unit with our crayfish.\n\nAfter reading more about Chicago today, we broke off in groups and your children are starting to write the script for the Chicago Play.  We will work on this over the next few days and your chil should have the script by Friday.\n\nWe are reading our AR books and doing some of our writing in our Journals and Writer\'s Notebooks.\n\nHomework:  Due Friday.  Your child will write a Description of \"How to Care for a Crayfish.\"  We will go over the format in class.   The description should include, but not limited to,  1) what is a crayfish, 2) supplies needed,  3)care and maintenance 4) feeding and care, 5)cost and commitment.  Illustrations should be included.\n\nMath:  We will begin Unit 10 today-Measurement and Data.  Please look for the Parent Unit 10 Letter.  We will cover lessons 10.1-10.4 this week.  Using tools and U.S. customary and metric systems, we will measure lengths, explore Volume and review Weight.  We have have a few fact tests this week.\n\nHomework:  Monday through Thursday-lessons 10.1-10.4\n\nScience:  Crayfish!!  We are also studying the life cycle of plants (we are sprouting Sunflower seeds) and will plant bean seeds this week.  What can your child tell you about expiration date and how our Sunflower seeds are growing?\n\nSocial Studies:  Again, these next weeks are all about Chicago and it\'s History.  We will also work some in our Time Magazine.\n\nArt:  ......still working on our Chicago Murals...we WILL be finished this week!!','Weekly Overview  May 17, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','275-revision-2','','','2010-05-17 12:15:25','2010-05-17 17:15:25','',275,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=277',0,'revision','',0),(278,9,'2010-06-01 13:40:17','2010-06-01 18:40:17','The Field Trip in the Trolley was wonderful last Friday-Hope you heard all about it!!!\r\n\r\nYour child will have a Field Trip form with them today for this Friday-we will be walking with our buddies to the Botany Pond at the University of Chicago.  Your child will need a picnic lunch.  We will walk there around 10:30, returning to Ray about 1:00.  The trip is free and please walk with us if you can.  Please return the filed trip form tomorrow.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nThe 3rd grade play is next Tuesday June 8, 2010  -at 9:30 and 1:30!!!  Please come and watch!!!  We need your children to wear the following:\r\n\r\ngirls:  Red tops (even if the shirt has something on it, maybe they can wear it inside out.-if you do not have red, orange), black leggings or black pants (if not black, a dark color) and black shoes if they have them.\r\n\r\nboys:  Black pants, black shoes and a white collared shirt.  (dark pants and shoes, if they do not have black)\r\n\r\nIt should be lots of fun!!!  Your child should know the skit they are doing and should be memorizing the lines at home.  Most kids already have their lines memorizing.  We will have a cast party after the second show, so please bring snacks and/or juice for everyone!!!  Thanks!\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading from our Chicago book and having some time for our AR Books.\r\n\r\nHomework:  Your child should write at least 5 sentences each night about a fact or something they know or have learned about Chicago.  The sentences should be numbered and written in complete sentences.  The sentences should be returned to school each day-a total of 20 sentences will be turned in on Friday.  We will read some of the work each day and your child can continue with their sentences each night on the same paper.  I will give paper out for this project.\r\n\r\nMath:  We are working in Unit 10 and will move on to Unit 11 as quickly as possible!!\r\n\r\nHomework: Lessons 10.9-10.11 (parent letter Unit 10) plus 11.1\r\n\r\nScience:  We are observing and caring for our Crayfish.  If you would like one for a pet at home, please bring in a note with a container to carry it home in!!!  Many kids have already taken one home!','Weekly Overview June 1, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-june-1-2010','','','2010-06-01 13:40:17','2010-06-01 18:40:17','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=278',0,'post','',0),(279,9,'2010-06-01 13:32:59','2010-06-01 18:32:59','The Field Trip in the Trolley was wonderful last Friday-Hope you heard all about it!!!\n\nYour child will have a Field Trip form with them today for this Friday-we will be walking with our buddies to the Botany Pond at the University of Chicago.  Your child will need a picnic lunch.  We will walk there around 10:30, returning to Ray about 1:00.  The trip is free and please walk with us if you can.  Please return the filed trip form tomorrow.  Thanks.\n\nThe 3rd grade play is next Tuesday June 8, 2010  -at 9:30 and 1:30!!!  Please come and watch!!!  We need your children to wear the following:\n\ngirls:  Red tops (even if the shirt has something on it, maybe they can wear it inside out.-if you do not have red, orange), black leggings or black pants (if not black, a dark color) and black shoes if they have them.\n\nboys:  Black pants, black shoes and a white collared shirt.  (dark pants and shoes, if they do not have black)\n\nIt should be lots of fun!!!  Your child should know the skit they are doing and should be memorizing the lines at home.  Most kids already have their lines memorizing.  We will have a cast party after the second show, so please bring snacks and/or juice for everyone!!!  Thanks!\n\nLanguage Arts:  We are reading from our Chicago book and having some time for our AR Books.\n\nHomework:  Your child should write at least 5 sentences each night about a fact or something they know or have learned about Chicago.  The sentences should be numbered and written in complete sentences.  The sentences should be returned to school each day-a total of 20 sentences will be turned in on Friday.  We will read some of the work each day and your child can continue with their sentences each night on the same paper.  I will give paper out for this project.\n\nMath:  We are working in Unit 10 and will move on to Unit 11 as quickly as possible!!\n\nHomework: Lessons 10.9-10.11 (parent letter Unit 10) plus 11.1\n\nScience:  We are observing and caring for our Crayfish.  If you would like one for a pet at home, please bring in a note with a container to carry it home in!!!  Many kids have already taken one home!','Weekly Overview June 1, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','278-revision','','','2010-06-01 13:32:59','2010-06-01 18:32:59','',278,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=279',0,'revision','',0),(280,9,'2010-06-07 15:34:23','2010-06-07 20:34:23','THIRD GRADE CHICAGO PLAY TOMORROW!!!   WOW!!!!   HAVE WE PRACTICED!!!!!\r\n\r\nWe hope everyone can come tomorrow at either 9:30 or 1:30.  Your children are wonderful!!!  Remember-they should come in appreciate dress-they all know!!!\r\n\r\nWe will have a cast party following the second performance-please bring drinks, and snack (carrots, apples, candy, cookies) anything-they will be ready for a party!!!!\r\n\r\nTheir homework for tonight is to practice their parts using a pretend microphone.  Ask them about this.  Thanks for your help!!!!\r\n\r\n....more later....\r\n\r\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview June 7, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-june-7-2010','','','2010-06-07 15:34:23','2010-06-07 20:34:23','',0,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=280',0,'post','',0),(281,9,'2010-06-07 15:30:32','2010-06-07 20:30:32','THIRD GRADECHICAGO PLAY TOMORROW!!!   WOW!!!!   HAVE WE PRACTICED!!!!!\n\nWe hope everyone can come tomorrow at either 9:30 or 1:30.  Your children are wonderful!!!  Ren','Weekly Overview June 7, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','280-revision','','','2010-06-07 15:30:32','2010-06-07 20:30:32','',280,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=281',0,'revision','',0),(282,9,'2010-06-07 15:34:37','2010-06-07 20:34:37','THIRD GRADE CHICAGO PLAY TOMORROW!!!   WOW!!!!   HAVE WE PRACTICED!!!!!\n\nWe hope everyone can come tomorrow at either 9:30 or 1:30.  Your children are wonderful!!!  Remember-they should come in appreciate dress-they all know!!!\n\nWe will have a cast party following the second performance-please bring drinks, and snack (carrots, apples, candy, cookies) anything-they will be ready for a party!!!!\n\nTheir homework for tonight is to practice their parts using a pretend microphone.  Ask them about this.  Thanks for your help!!!!\n\n....more later....\n\nJean Clement','Weekly Overview June 7, 2010',0,'','inherit','open','closed','','280-autosave','','','2010-06-07 15:34:37','2010-06-07 20:34:37','',280,'http://jmclement.cuipblogs.net/?p=282',0,'revision','',0),(283,9,'2010-06-14 12:26:21','2010-06-14 17:26:21','WOW!!!!  The year has gone by so very fast!!  Your children are wonderful!  I have enjoyed them all so much!  They are a great group of kids-you are lucky that your child has this group of students as their classmates!!!\r\n\r\nHope you saw the amazing 3rd grade play!!!  I was so impressed-everyone was great!!!\r\n\r\nWednesday is the all day picnic!!!  Your child can bring an extra drink and some snacks, but lunch will be provided.  Please come if you can.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nIf your child will not be coming on Friday, please pick up the report card in the office.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nNo school on Thursday, then Friday there is school from 9:00 through 10:00.  Please have your child, if they have not already, come to school with an empty back pack or a bag-so they can take home their things.  Thanks.\r\n\r\nLanguage Arts:  We will complete one more lesson in our Map Essentials book.  They are reading their AR books-please have them continue to read over the summer!!!  We will finish reading The Little Princess today and we will watch the movie tomorrow.\r\n\r\nMath:  Your child has taken the Unit 10 math test.  If they did better on the test (better than their average) I counted the test.  If they did worse, I did not include the score in thir grade.  They are all taking the Unit 11 test today-we have gone over most of the material-they will do fine.  We made it through the Math Program!!!!   YEAH!!!!\r\n\r\nI hope you have a wonderful summer!  I really will truly miss this class.  They are wonderful!!!\r\n\r\nThanks for all your help.  Jean Clement','Weekly Overview June 14, 2010',0,'','publish','open','closed','','weekly-overview-june-14-2010','','','2010-06-14 12:26:21','2010-06-14 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