Saturday, November 19, 2011

Publishing Party

I just wanted to remind everyone that our Storyline culmination/publishing party is Thursday, December 15, at 1:30.  Students will be reading a piece of their writing in front of the audience and, most importantly (in the eyes of your children), there will be snacks at the end.  Invitations will be sent out later but I wanted you to be able to get it on your calendars.  We hope you'll be able to make it!

Friday, November 18, 2011

Just to make things fun for the class, I am initiating a new lottery drawing.  Each Friday kids will be able to use their Morgan bucks and purchase lottery tickets.  I will draw from the tickets and the winner will be able choose the background for our classroom blog.  We should get some pretty interesting backgrounds :)
Mr. Morgan

EDIT:  This week's winner was Luke, who chose the LA Lakers
Just wanted to give everyone a quick update.  The family dance that is scheduled for November 18, has been canceled.  It will be rescheduled for sometime in February.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Math Homework

Our math homework is now on the site.  There is week one and week two, since the homework is for a two week period.
Thank you

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

I just wanted to let you know that if you need to send me an email, you can click on my profile on the left side of the page and there is an email link available.
I thought I'd give you all a little change of pace.  Enjoy our Cowboys look for awhile.  Once the Ducks beat the Beavers, I'm sure we'll see a return of the QUACK :)

New Writing Homework

I would like to thank everyone for visiting my blog.  As I get more proficient at this, I think it will work very well for all of us.  I have updated our writing homework.  With the short week next week, our homework will not be due until December 2nd.  This is more work for our Native American unit.  Please have your child pick 2 of the 5 stories posted (they can do more if they want).  They will need to read the story and then print and fill out the last two pages.  They are questions that can be answered from the story.  The last page they will need to do a comparison between our Mohawk tribe and whichever story they read. Math will be posted by tomorrow evening.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

I have added a link for Everyday Math in the "Math Websites" section on the right side of the page.  This is a website that is created by the publishers of our district math curriculum.  This has games and work that is directly from the work we do in class.  There will be little cards going home with each student today that has their login and password information. Please tape this card to the inside of their homework folder so they do not loose them.  The "login" and "username" are the same thing.
Please use as much as you would like.

Mr. Morgan

Monday, November 7, 2011

On the right side of the blog, you will see the links for our writing and math homework.  You can click on the links and then print out the homework.  Please return the completed homework in their homework folders on the date specified.
At the bottom of the page I have also added our vocabulary that we are working on for the week.

Thank you,
Mr. Morgan
We will be having a  Publishing Party on December 15th at 1:40.  We will be celebrating our writing with our friends and family.  You are more than welcome to join us.  There will be writing that we have done in conjunction with our Native American unit.  We will send more information as the time gets closer.

Mr. Morgan

Welcome to our new website

I would like to thank everyone for visiting our new classroom website.  We will try to keep everyone updated as to what is happening in our classroom as well as homework for the week.  This is a new experience for me so please be patient as I work my way through this process.  I would like to give a special "thank you" to Megan Arbuthnot for the extra help she has given towards this web page.  She will also help me keep our homework assignments up to date :)

Thank you,
Mr. Morgan