Thursday, August 31, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           Disclosure Document Signatures (and VIP form)  are due today. The check-out/check-in book for our class library is now available.   Fill in the whole line for the book you check out.  When you bring it back, mark the date and have Ms. Dorsey or a class librarian initial that you have brought it back.  School Pictures will be taken during math classes on Thursday and Friday, August 31 and September 1. You should have received your picture packets.  If not, check with the main office, or Mrs. Dorsey.  Cavetime will begin on Tuesday, September 5.  Scholastic Book Orders:  If you'd like to order Scholastic Books online, and benefit our classroom, go to http://pcool.scholastic.com/parentordering/login.jsp, register, and enter code GKLJW. To order through me without going online, bring me the filled out order form and a check written to Scholastic Book Orders.  I'll be sending in orders on September 15, or sooner if I receive orders totalling $25 or more. Order forms are available on the back counter near the door.

Targets for Today: I can read for enjoyment, and participate in discussions about literature.

Today’s  Agenda: Find a book or pull out one that your brought. (Hand in your disclosure document signatures and VIP Form if you haven't yet. They are due today.)  Quiet, Individual Reading Time Did we read to chapter 3 or to chapter 4 of The Rithmatist last time?   If you were absent or if you didn't get to chapter ________, catch up during this time. Set up your composition books. Your folder numbers are. . . .   Composition Book Set-Up Appointment Clock    Rithmatist  We read to chapter 3  of The Rithmatist last time. Today we read to chapter 4, and students were assigned to read 4 and, if time, 5.

If You Were Absent: See above.

Vocabulary: appointment:  this word comes from Old French apointier "make ready, arrange, settle, place"