They make Mrs. Kornblum proud.....
Beauclerc Teacher of the Year.... Ms. Katy Burns...
Mrs. Sandy Trueblood retires today after 37 years of teaching.....
We celebrated with a faculty breakfast.....
5th Grade News.....
It has been a busy week in 5th Grade. We continued to work on the Genre of Tall Tales and ended the week with our Theme 1 Benchmark Test. This was a good practice for increasing our reading stamina.
Today is was sooooooo good to get back to reading Maniac Magee. I'm sure by now everyone knows he is one of my all time favorite characters. He is in search of "FAMILY" and thought he had one with the Beales... but his unconditional love for them made him realize that if he loved them he had to leave the East End. We now have started another phase of Maniac's quest for family. Today we met and awesome character... Grayson. Will he teach Maniac some life lessons... or will Maniac teach him? We'll just have to keep reading to find out.
Mr. G read us the Book of the Month... "Pumpkins". To look at the cover you would think it was fiction, but, it is really informational. Perfect timing considering the time of year and Mr. G's love of pumpkins.
Hope you have a great weekend... I plan to rest and enjoy the football games.
Love you..... Mrs. P
Taking the Benchmark Test...
It has been a busy week in 5th Grade. We continued to work on the Genre of Tall Tales and ended the week with our Theme 1 Benchmark Test. This was a good practice for increasing our reading stamina.
Today is was sooooooo good to get back to reading Maniac Magee. I'm sure by now everyone knows he is one of my all time favorite characters. He is in search of "FAMILY" and thought he had one with the Beales... but his unconditional love for them made him realize that if he loved them he had to leave the East End. We now have started another phase of Maniac's quest for family. Today we met and awesome character... Grayson. Will he teach Maniac some life lessons... or will Maniac teach him? We'll just have to keep reading to find out.
Mr. G read us the Book of the Month... "Pumpkins". To look at the cover you would think it was fiction, but, it is really informational. Perfect timing considering the time of year and Mr. G's love of pumpkins.
Hope you have a great weekend... I plan to rest and enjoy the football games.
Love you..... Mrs. P
Taking the Benchmark Test...
Mr. G reads the Book of the Month.... I think someone has been sitting in my chair... and there she is...
Finally... back to "Maniac Magee"...
Mr. G loves his rocking chair...
4th Grade News.....
We miss you Mrs. Nelson.... Get well soon....
Mrs. Gaspard, Mrs. Shedd and I are doing our best to hold down the fort until you can return. The kids are working hard to make you proud.
In reading we are working on the skill of Author's Viewpoint. Our selection story, "Grandfather's Journey" has given us lots of practice on our skill. Today we had a competition... Boys vs Girls... and practiced our vocabulary. It was a tie and everyone worked together to show their knowledge of our vocabulary words for this story. I even saw some students putting some of the words in their writing. Our Vocabualary test is Monday and the MGN Studio kids are READY!
We started our next writing piece. I was so amazed at how everyone just jumped right into writing. We are working on making writing "Living Color" through the use of sensory details, color words, and strong verbs. We may be ready for publishing next week!
In Math we are working on "Rounding" off numbers. In Science we are still working on "Energy". As you can see we have had a busy week. It's hard to believe we are more than half way through our first nine weeks.
Have a great weekend....
Love you..... Mrs. P
4th Grade News.....
We miss you Mrs. Nelson.... Get well soon....
Mrs. Gaspard, Mrs. Shedd and I are doing our best to hold down the fort until you can return. The kids are working hard to make you proud.
In reading we are working on the skill of Author's Viewpoint. Our selection story, "Grandfather's Journey" has given us lots of practice on our skill. Today we had a competition... Boys vs Girls... and practiced our vocabulary. It was a tie and everyone worked together to show their knowledge of our vocabulary words for this story. I even saw some students putting some of the words in their writing. Our Vocabualary test is Monday and the MGN Studio kids are READY!
We started our next writing piece. I was so amazed at how everyone just jumped right into writing. We are working on making writing "Living Color" through the use of sensory details, color words, and strong verbs. We may be ready for publishing next week!
In Math we are working on "Rounding" off numbers. In Science we are still working on "Energy". As you can see we have had a busy week. It's hard to believe we are more than half way through our first nine weeks.
Have a great weekend....
Love you..... Mrs. P
Working on our "Living Color" stories.....
Mrs. Gaspard found a neat website with videos of "Energy".....
The Boys Book Club reading "Sounder"...
2:10 Reading Club
I have a Reading Club that meets in the Peck "Cave", Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday. We are working on reading skills two days a week and reading a novel the other two. Everyone is very attentive and working hard to acquire reading skills before the FCAT.
Our first skill is "Inference"...
Our first novel.... "In-Between Days" by Eve Bunting...
