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Practice Library Book

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Your child will be brought home a “Practice Library Book” last Tuesday, to help teach them how to be responsible with their library books by taking good care of them and remembering to return them on time.  Mrs. Anderson, our wonderful librarian at Q1, will allow them to start checking out books starting November 5 after they’ve brought back the practice book.   Our library day is on Tuesdays, so it would be great practice if they could return it by this next Tuesday (Oct. 27). 
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Homework 10/18-10/22

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There will be ONLY reading homework this week due to it being the end of term and short week.  However, your child can practice with base ten lesson information at home if they like.  

Our Class Halloween Party is Friday, October 30 at 11:30am.  We are requesting a $2 donation to help pay for the party treats and supplies.  You may pay at the Q1 office or online: Quest Online Payments  (please enter the amount of your choice in the OTHER box).

If your child is allergic to sugar cookies, frosting, decorating candies, etc., please arrange to have your child bring a treat for themselves on the day of our Halloween party in lieu of providing a donation.  Thank you!

Also, please sign the below permission slip for our Halloween Party if you have not done so already: 
Halloween Party Permission Slip

1- No Math Homework this week:  
NOTE: Lesson 8 is tricky and your child may need your extra support!  If your child is struggling, have them draw base ten cubes (the orange “rods” and “ones” in the example).  Have them draw an extra ten rod when they need “ten more” or cross off/erase a ten rod when they need “ten less”.  If you have some crafter’s plastic mesh, it can be cut into tens and ones to be used as a manipulative.
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2- Reading 20-30 minutes per day, record on reading log on our Weekly Homework form. There are several sources for reading: “Reading for all Learners” also known as”Buddy books” from school, books from home or the public library and our online reading program Raz-Kids.  Our class Raz-Kids login is: anelson74

3- Timed fluency practice worth 20 points. Click here: Timed Fluency Practice
This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader.  It will also count toward your 20 reading minutes.  Time your student for one minute.  Record the number of words they were able to read in one minute. 

High Frequency Words for this week are:
not
have
this
by
were
REVIEW WORDS:
they
with
from
SENTENCE
They are on the rug.

SPELLING SENTENCE  7 POINTS POSSIBLE ON TEST (1 point for each correctly spelled word,  1 point for beginning the sentence with an uppercase letter, and 1 point for the correct punctuation mark at the end of the sentence.)

Reminders

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Pumpkin 71-  Please help your student answer the Question of the Week on our blog.  Each student will have an opportunity to post a question throughout this school year.

2– WEDNESDAY: Wear Uniform
   Reading Log due
   Early out 1:00pm

3- FALL BREAK- No School
   Thursday and Friday this week 

4- Next Thursday, Oct 29: 
330  Kaylee, 340  Kathlyn,  350  Brynn,   400  Leah, 410  Adalai,  420  Bryton,  
430  Tenaya,  440  Jessica,   450  Spencer,  500  Isabella,   510  Saelim, 
520  Tegan,  530  Rosa 

5- Help us earn playground equipment by collecting Box Tops & Campbell’s labels

6- Keep working on your moon watchers journal.

7- Our Class Halloween Party is Friday, October 30 at 11:30am.  We are requesting a $2 donation to help pay for sugar cookies, supplies to decorate the cookies, and party supplies.  You may pay at the Q1 office or online: Quest Online Payments  (please enter the amount of your choice in the OTHER box).

If your child is allergic to sugar cookies, frosting, decorating candies, etc., please arrange to have your child bring a treat for themselves on the day of our Halloween party in lieu of providing a donation.  Thank you!

If you have not completed the online permission form please do so now: Halloween Party PERMISSION FORM

8- Our Scholastic Book Order is due October 23rd.  Your Scholastic orders help our classroom library earn FREE books.  Last month we earned a set of leveled non-fiction books!  And books are great Christmas gifts.  If you are ordering books for a gift let me know and I will allow you to come pick them up in the classroom so they can remain a surprise. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is N8TKQ: Scholastic Book Club

Career Week is this week!

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***We still have some available openings for our Career Week this week.  If you can come in for any of the available time slots please let me know as soon as possible.  Thanks to those parents who have already signed up. 

Parents: Sign Up to Share Your Job with Our Class for Career Day!

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We have been talking a lot in class about neighborhood jobs and citizenship (which, of course, includes contributing as a working citizen of our community).  In light of these classroom discussions, we would love for several of our parents to come share information about their jobs with our class!  This is always a highlight of our academic year!

No pressure!
Please know that you only need to fill about 15 minutes of time with information about your job, including time for questions/answers! The time goes by VERY quickly!  We welcome you to share any props, tools, visual representations, uniforms, etc. to help your career come to life for the children, but these things are not necessary.  Many jobs that parents may feel are “unexciting” may actually be fascinating for students to hear about and help to give the students a closer look at the “adult world!” It would be wonderful to give the children exposure to a broad range of careers!

When you arrive at the school, be sure to check in at the office and receive your “volunteer” name badge.

If you would like to sign up to volunteer, please e-mail me (anelson@questac.org) with the date and time that would work for you.  The available days/times are as follows:

Monday, October 12th:
9:00-9:15               Marshay Taylor
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00
10:00-10:15
2:15-2:30                 Wendy Norton
2:30-2:45                 Kris McDonald
2:45-3:00                 Michelle Meyer

Tuesday, October 13th:
8:45-9:00                 Melissa Brown
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00
10:00-10:15              Whitney Anderson 

Wednesday, October 14th:
9:00-9:15
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45

Parents: Sign Up to Share Your Job with Our Class for Career Day!

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We have been talking a lot in class about neighborhood jobs and citizenship (which, of course, includes contributing as a working citizen of our community).  In light of these classroom discussions, we would love for several of our parents to come share information about their jobs with our class!  This is always a highlight of our academic year!

No pressure!
Please know that you only need to fill about 15 minutes of time with information about your job, including time for questions/answers! The time goes by VERY quickly!  We welcome you to share any props, tools, visual representations, uniforms, etc. to help your career come to life for the children, but these things are not necessary.  Many jobs that parents may feel are “unexciting” may actually be fascinating for students to hear about and help to give the students a closer look at the “adult world!” It would be wonderful to give the children exposure to a broad range of careers!

When you arrive at the school, be sure to check in at the office and receive your “volunteer” name badge.

If you would like to sign up to volunteer, please e-mail me (anelson@questac.org) with the date and time that would work for you.  The available days/times are as follows:

Monday, October 12th:
9:00-9:15               Marshay Taylor
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00
10:00-10:15
2:15-2:30                 Wendy Norton
2:30-2:45                 Kris McDonald
2:45-3:00                 Michelle Meyer

Tuesday, October 13th:
8:45-9:00                 Melissa Brown
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00
10:00-10:15              Whitney Anderson 

Wednesday, October 14th:
9:00-9:15
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45