If you lose your newsletter please go to www.mg.k12.mo.us, click on Parent resources, click Faculty and Staff, click on my name and you will have access to the weekly newsletter. Mrs. Wakefield’s Weekly Note Spelling List 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. chick much pitch teacher lunch For the week of October 19, 2015 6. hatch 11. whales 7. cheese 12. fish 8. stretch 13. what 9. thick 14. them 10. truth 15. pathway 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. stream three scribble sandwich weather Spelling Test will be on Wednesday, October 21!!! Oct. 21 - Parent/teacher conferences, 3:30 - 5:30 Oct. 22 - Early dismissal, 12:35, lunch will be served Oct. 22 - Parent/teacher conferences, 1:00 - 6:00 Oct. 23 - No school Week of Oct. 26 - Scholastic Book Fair, 8 AM - 5 PM, library Week of Oct. 26 - Red Ribbon Week Monday - wear red Tuesday - superhero Wednesday - twin day Thursday - team or panther shirts Friday - fall party day Oct. 27 - Minion Party, 2:30, gym, by invitation only Oct. 29 - Book Fair Family Night & BBQ, 5 PM - 7 PM Oct. 30 - Fall parties, 2:30 PM Oct. 31 - Laura’s Run, 9 AM, Lake Freebird (601 N Busch) Nov. 1 - Daylight Savings Time ends - set your clocks back one hour -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Homework: Don’t forget to have your child read their weekly story at home for 5 bonus reading points! Sign the bonus point paper and return it to school! This week read p.222-243, Gorilla Garden, Here’s My Dollar, Neighbors, Recycling, Reading and Writing Connection. Don’t forget, your child can read it on their eBook on the computer. If you need help with your eBook please contact me. Book It-October begins the Book It Program for our class. Your child’s goal is to read 200 minutes at home for the month. Your child can count their minutes reading the weekly story homework on their Book It calendar. At the end of the month return your child’s Book It calendar to me, signed by you, for a certificate for free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. Study Help-To help in the study process at home for reading, your child may take an AR test on their weekly story. Your child has their own unique name and password for Renaissance Place (A.R.). Go to the schools main web page www.mg.k12.mo.us under student resources click Renaissance Place. Coats- It is beginning to get cold. Make sure your child’s name is inside coats, hats, gloves, etc. Every year our school has an enormous lost and found pile. If your child needs a coat please let me know and I will get them one. Reading-This week we will be studying how to author’s purpose. Grammar: This week we will be working on possessives. Spelling: This week we will be working on words with digraphs. Vocabulary- Know the meaning of the following deserve, tour, volunteers, slogan, thrilled. Math: We will continue working times three multiplication facts; finding the missing lengths from a shape and finding the area of an irregular shape.