Monday News

Dear Parents and Owls,

Here's a peek at what we've been doing in class!

Word Study:  Our spelling pattern this week is all about the suffixes -er and -est!  We use the suffix -er to mean "a person who does" AND "more" when comparing two things!  We use -est to mean "most" when comparing more than two things.  You can find a copy of our weekly spelling rule and sight words under our homework tab!

Social Studies: We've been learning all about the beginning of the Georgia colony and how James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove helped to create what is now Georgia!  We made flipbooks all about each important figure from history!  A study guide about this information came home with students today AND can be found under homework resources!

Reading:  We've been learning all about nonfiction text features.  Students have learned now to use the table of contents, headings, subheadings, photographs, and captions to dig deeper into nonfiction text!

Math:  In math, we're working on problem solving.  Students are working on single-step word problems involving numbers 0-100 and two-step problems involving numbers 0-20.  Here's how we've been modeling our problems:

We are busy learning and growing!  Our parliament of owls is so smart and hard-working!  Let's have another AWESOME week!

Mrs. Kidd

School-Wide News

Dear Parents,

Please see the news below:

• Friday Events:  Tomorrow, Friday, November 13 will be Smoothie Sale Day in the Cafe from 7:20-7:50.  Muffins with Mavity will be held in the cafe at 8:30!

• Thanksgiving Rotations:  We are having Thanksgiving rotations next Friday, November 20th from 8:45-10:30.  Meredith Doyle has volunteered to be one of our parent volunteers, but we would love to have at least one more!  If you are able to assist, please e-mail Mrs. Kidd!

• Scholastic Book Fair is NEXT WEEK:  “The Scholastic Book Fair starts Monday November 16^th! There will be thousands of books to choose from.  We would love to give students from our sister school Fair Oaks the opportunity to enjoy these wonderful books. Please consider supporting our One 4 Books campaign to raise funds to send books to Fair Oaks by sending loose change and small donations to school throughout this week.  Family Night at the Book Fair will be Tuesday November 17^th from 6 to 8pm.  There will be face painting, tattoos, and more! A ‘monstrous’ time will be had by all! Check the Media Center blog for hours and additional information.”

• Georgia Parent Survey:  The Georgia Parent Survey is also modeled after the student survey and contains 24 questions. Parents may complete the survey using their personal computer, smartphones or tablet.  For parents that do not have access to the Internet, school administrators should consider scheduling dates and times to allow parents to complete the Georgia Parent Survey at school.  All parents should be encouraged to participate in the Georgia Parent Survey because the data will be used as part of the calculation of the School Climate Star Rating. Survey responses are anonymous and will be submitted directly to the Georgia Department of Education for analysis.  Individual data results from the Georgia Parent Survey will not be available to the public and will not be posted online.  The URL address for the Georgia Parent Survey is posted below.

Georgia Parent Survey:

http://apps.gadoe.org/schoolclimate/parents.nsf/Survey.xsp