Monday, November 4, 2013 Vestaburg Elementary School

Perfect Scorers on the Spelling Test Congratulations to these students for scoring a perfect score on Fridays test: Cody Marianna Brooke Kenzie Bailey Spelling I do not send home words on a sheet in an effort to save paper. Your child will be writing them in his or her agenda every Monday. I will also include those in my newsletters. Your childs spelling words for this week are: almanac citation survey often statistics biography poll directory came picked calendar geographic quotation near journal Three times each is always due no later than Thursday morning.

Historical Research Project First of all, it has been an intense month with working on two major projects. We have been spending our writing and social studies time in the media center or computer lab typing both projects. Around 85% are done with printing their final draft of the historical research project and 90% have completed their digital poster for their Native American project. Dont forget to send in their Native American house on Friday, November 8th. My goal was that both projects would be completed before parent-teacher conferences so that you could have an opportunity to see them. We are now working on completing our posters for the Historical Research project. However, there are some who are choosing to dress up as their person that they researched. I hope they communicated this to you. They will be presenting their Historical research project (2-4 minute speech, explaining their persons life) on Monday, November 11th.
Dates to Remember
November 8 Native American house brought to school (not before today). November 9 PTOs Mom2Mom Sale 10 AM-2 PM, $2 admittance with children 12 and under free. November 11 Presenting Historical Research Project (2-4 min speech explaining the persons life, including his or her poster, if not dressing up). November 13 Parent-Teacher Conferences: 5:00-7:30 PM November 14 Students released at 11:00. Parent-Teacher Conferences: 1:00-4:00 and 5:30-7:30 PM November 15 No School

DAILY SCHEDULE 8:00-8:50-Gym (T/TH & every other Fri.) Literacy/Spelling when no gym 8:50-9:30-Literacy/Writing/Language 9:30-9:40-Snack 9:40-10:15-Common Intervention 10:20-11:10-Social Studies 11:10-12:00-Science 12:05-12:35-Recess 12:40-1:25-Math 1:25-1:40-Recess 1:45-2:15-Music (M/W & every other Fri.) Continue math if no music 2:20-2:55-Daily 5 reading or continue math if a music day Mondays at 10:20 - Library