Monday, February 24, 2014 Vestaburg Elementary School

Perfect Scorers on the Spelling Test Congratulations to these students for scoring a perfect score on Fridays test: Jared McKenzie

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:

refund predominate reorganize prefabricate

revisit react reread

recount reconsider replace

made nice premeditate my please

Three times each is always due no later than Thursday morning.

Parent Math Night

If you havent RSVPd yet for this important event, please do so as soon as possible. As a reminder: The night starts out with a pizza dinner from 6:00-6:30 in the Commons. Childcare is provided. There will be a total of 3 informative sessions in classrooms beginning at 6:30. Each rotation will be 20 minutes. The last session at 7:45, will be an evaluation and door prizes which will take place in the Commons. I truly hope that every parent will be able to make it from my class. Social Studies Debate Our students chose a southern colony to research, recording pros of living there and then they met with others who chose the same colony and compared notes. Then, each colony team debated with the whole group selling their colony as far as persuading them to settle there. I am proud of everyone with the effort they put into this assignment. This was our first experience with debating. The next step is creating an advertising poster. Dates to Remember

February 24 Sign progress report slip and return. February 27 Chili Cook-off: 5-7 PM
February 28 5th Grade Field Trip to Grand Rapids Symphony March 4 Students Released at 1 PM March 7 No School In-service Day March 12 Parent Math Night Please RSVP by filling out the bottom portion. March 21 Students Released at 11 AM. End of 3rd Marking Period

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