Friday October 5

Book Club Order Due Date : October 28

Scholastic Book Clubs Ordering Information

www.scholastic.com/bookclubs

Class Activation Code: HFWGD

This month's Scholastic Book Club flyers are ready for you to explore with your child. Children read more when they choose their own books, so I encourage you to look at the flyers together.

Give online ordering a try. It saves time, offers more book choices, and earns extra rewards for the classroom!

When you place your order online, you'll help earn FREE Books for our class and you also get a $5 FREE Book Pick Coupon to use on your next online order!

 

Ordering online is fast and easy:  Click the logo above!

•     REGISTER at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs

•     ENTER the Class Activation Code at the top of this letter

•     CHOOSE from thousands of print titles, value packs, and Storia eBooks

•     SUBMIT the order to your child's teacher

•     EARN FREE Books for you and the classroom too!

David Shannon is going to be at the Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne on Sunday at 12:00. He is one of my very favorite authors and illustrators. You must preregister!  I highly recommend it!!!!

This week our class had a substitute on Wednesday and Friday.  Both days I spent doing fall assessments with the students.  I had the opportunity to sit and read with each student and then have a discussion about the book that they read.  It is a great experience to be able to sit and read and talk to each student for about 30 uninterrupted minutes.  In the life of a school teacher there is never 30 minutes of time with out interruptions.  To have this time with each student allows me to fulfill the assessment requirement, and get to know each student even more as a reader and personally.  With the information gathered we will focus our reading group instruction and make sure that each student is reading books that are at their instructional level.

We are coming to the end of our first unit in Writer's Workshop.  the students have selected one of the pieces of writing they have been working on, and have begun the process of getting it ready to publish.  Some of the steps they have taken are reading it it with a friend to make sure it makes sense, revising it by adding more to their words and pictures, and they each will get a rubric to help self-assess.  They are looking over their writing to make sure there is a beginning, middle, and end, checking spelling and checking for clarity throughout the piece.  Next week they will be assigned an "editor" and together they will look over each others writing.  We will have our first Publishing Party next week!

ASK ABOUT

• Art in the Tech Lab
• The days with the substitute and reading with Mr. Lake
• What they did for Friday workshop

Kids Quotes

• Student 1: “For Pete’s sake!”  Student 2 : “No you mean for Peter Lake Sake!”
• to me in the lunchroom "Hey are you that guy in Youssef’s class?”
• “I think the floor ate more cupcakes than we did!”
• “I went to NH and ate a lot of things, that’s why I have a runny nose.”
• A students response to why they had a sub  "Mr. Lake didn't feel like teaching today!!!"