Ms. Rouse

Peek of the Week for December 15-19, 2008

Dear Families,

Wow, can you believe this is our last blog for the year 2008?  I know I can't!  As the holidays appproach I would like to say thank you to all of the support you give to the children.  M y first semester here at Pine Mountain has been terrific thanks to you and your wonderful children. I hope that you all have a fantastic holiday season and that all your holiday wishes come true!

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  All Students: Remember Friday, December 19th is our Winter Holiday Celebration! Don't forget to bring your assigned goodies by Thursday, December 18th.

Study Skills: During next week's study skills class, we will continue working with the Tale of Despereaux and finish some of our incomplete journal entries.  Homework- Foreshadowing assignment from The Tale of Despereaux  readings.   

**Remember, although the movie,"The Tale of Despereaux" comes out at the theatres next week, please do not go to see it until after the holidays when we are finished with the book.I know you are in great anticipation, but be patient...we're getting there. **  (graphic - www.leoncounty.fla.gov.)

Reading: During next week's reading class we will continue reading our chapter book, Matilda and our guided reading book, Bats by Ron Cole.  I will introduce a new Reading Test Prep. warm-up drill.  This week's drill will focus on differentiating between fact and opinion.  Homework- Reading logs, and questions from the stories, Snack Time!  and Winter is Coming

Language Arts:  Next week we will work with helping/linking verbs and compound predicates.

Social Studies:  We'll be working with Georgia geography.

Peek of the Week for December 8-12, 2008

 Study Skills: This week's study skills focuses on foreshadowing and summarizing.  We're getting closer to the end of our fantastic book, The Tale of Despereaux.  Homework - Reading logs and reading summaries of chapters 30 - 36 from The Tale of Despereaux. Picture (bigpicture.fancast.com)

 Reading: We will continue our guided reading of Bats, chapter book activities for the story, Matilda , and working on our multi- meaning word books. Homework - Reading Log and Bat story. *** Study bat vocabulary for test on Tuesday, December 16. Picture (beekeeping.com)

  Language Arts: Sentence diagramming, vocabulary, subject/verb agreement. Picture (tdl.com)

Social Studies: All about Atlanta Picture (busbank.com)

Peek of the Week for December 1 - 5, 2008

 I hope that you had a restful Thanksgiving vacation. Today, we discussed everyone's vacation.  Some of the kids complained about being bored during the holidays, which is so funny to me!  The week before we left for break they were all talking about how they were tired and ready to stay home.  Boy, oh boy, we just can't please our little teenagers! 

Study Skills Class- This week will will work on understanding and using subheadings in reading and writing.

 Reading Class- As you know, our reading class is full of "budding poets".  We work on a different type of poetry every other month.  The December/January poetry type is acrostic poems.  We will be writing acrostic poems about our grandmothers this week, as well as reading our book, Bats. Here's the link to help with acrostic poem writing http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/

Language Arts- Diagraming, diagramming and more diagramming this week in Language Arts.

Social Studies- We'll be focusing on Atlanta this week in our Georgia study.