October 22nd through 26th
Keenoy Kardinal News October
26, 2018
Dear Families,
The weeks seem to be flying
by right now. It is hard for me to
believe that November is basically here! I hope that each of the students
trick-or-treating on Wednesday has fun and stays safe. Our field trip to the Rock Bridge Planetarium
was a success, and I was proud of our behavior choices. We gave them a great impression and showed
how amazing we are at Paxton Keeley.
Have a wonderful weekend and week.
Kardinal of the Week: Tony W.
Hello, my name is Tony. I have thirteen people in my family. I do not have any pets. I’m eleven years old and had a birthday this
week. I do fun things every day and my
friends are nice to me. I complete my
work for my teacher and my life is fun.
Everyone in my class is nice and funny.
The next Kardinal of the Week
is Nick. Please bring any pictures or items that you
would like to put on our bulletin board that is located outside of our
classroom.
Greatly Appreciated!
Thank you to the families
that planned, organized, donated, and attended our Fall party. Students always look forward to these parties,
and they would not happen without your donated items/time.
Parent Teacher Conferences
In the Friday Folder you will
find your parent-teacher conference confirmation. Please let me know right away if you have a
conflict. Every attempt was made to
honor your request.
Please Help Us Support the Food Bank-Annual Paxton
Food Drive
The Paxton Keeley Food Drive
for the Central MO Food Bank will be Monday, October 29th through
Friday, November 2nd.
You may send in canned or
boxed food items. Examples are soup,
canned vegetables or fruits, macaroni and cheese, cereal, etc. Please DO NOT
send in glass items. Please try to send
in healthy foods. You may also send a
donation of money. Checks can be made
out to the Central Missouri Food Bank.
We will be having a competition among the classes. First place overall gets a pizza party. First place for their grade level gets either
a popcorn or popsicle party. Thank you!
Schedule for the Winter Open House-December 14th.
Perform
in Gym Open House Lunch/Recess
K 11:15 am 11:35-11:55 10:05-10:55
5th 11:35 am
Choir 11:55 am 12:15-12:35 12:45-1:35
4th 12:15 pm 12:35-12:55 10:55-11:45
1 1:30 pm 1:50-2:10 10:30-11:20
3 1:50 pm 2:10-2:30 12:20-1:10
2 2:10 pm 2:30-2:50 11:55-12:45
Math
We continued with our Unit 3
fraction unit this week.
The focus included students
learning how to:
apply their understanding of
fractions as division to report remainders as fractions.
determine what to do with the
remainders (ignore, round up, or report as a fraction), depending on the
context of the situation.
Writing
*Most of our
class finished typing their 4th Personal Narrative draft this
week. These will be shared at
conferences.
*Students will complete a post-assessment
for this genre of writing.
*Writing pre-assessments and
their process piece will be shared during conferences.
*Our next genre of writing
will be informational.
Reading
We continued to focus on
inferring and using context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown
words. Students seem to be loving the
book, Zach’s Lie. I really enjoy how
engaged students are during my reading.
This book requires them to make so many inferences and forces a deeper
level of thinking.
Science – Earth/Space Systems
It is always very exciting
for me to teach students information that they do not have a lot of background
knowledge about. I find the concepts
below very interesting and love bringing them to life as much as I can.
Students should now have a
solid understanding about the following:
*Reasons for the patterns of
shadows.
*Reason why Columbia, MO
experiences different seasons.
*Change in daylight hours
from summer to winter.
*Southern Hemisphere and
Northern Hemisphere being on opposite seasons.
*Moon phases and patterns.
*Reason for time zones.
I will give students a study
guide late next week and they will have an entire week to study prior to the
assessment.
Social Studies
Students will start learning
about the New England, Southern, and Middle colonies in social studies chapters
5 and 6 next week.
Word Study
I reminded students about
some common long E patterns. We
discussed that usually you will find an i
before e except after c.
ie words included: field, chief, brief
ei words included: receipt, receive,
ceiling
Students are expected to
study their words each week by taking their Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check page
home. They completed this paper in class on Thursday. Students will be tested over their 10
spelling words in the middle of next week.
Reminders
Nov. 5th and 6th
-No School
Nov 12th through
15th-Parent/Teacher Conference Week
Nov. 21st through
23rd-No School/Thanksgiving Break
Dec.14th-Open House-Schedule
Above
Have a terrific week!
Sincerely,
Dan Keenoy
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