TeamLuby Update Week of January 6, 2014

Spring Street School

Mrs. Lubys class
Winter is in our midst and we are back on
track! Please remember to send sneakers
with your child if he/she wears boots to
school. Boots are very warm and
uncomfortable to be wearing all day.
Remember those Box
Tops for Education! We will
collect labels in the classroom
before sending to the office
for official counts! Hoot can
be ours for a month!
We could use business-sized
envelopes (long white) for our pen pal
letters if anyone has a few extras at home.
We will also be creating
Valentine cards for local
elderly housing centers in
early February. If you see any cool
stickers, stickie foam shapes, doilies, or
other fun Valentine Day supplies, please
send them in. We will be asking for parent
volunteers to help. Date TBA.
Please have your child continue with
Scootpad assignments and Spelling City on-
line.
Media Wednesday
Homeworkopoly returns this week.

Dont forget sneakers on Tuesday and
recorders on Wednesday!

Math Club TUESDAY; 8-8:30 AM Long
Division
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Homework
Date Assigned Due Date
Pen Pal organizer 1/6 1/7
SpellingCity 1/6 1/10
Pen Pal letter 1/7 1/9
StoryWorks Reading 1/8 1/9
Math - TBA
Family Traditions/Artifacts organizers
due 1/8/14
Reading Comp - TBA
Scootpad!
Spelling Quiz 1/10

Mult/Div fact practice ongoing! Check out
one of the games on this site:
http://www.fun4thebrain.com/mult.html

Language Arts
We will complete our Andrew
Clements literature group projects early
this week. We will then learn about
different types of extreme weather as
well as the great flood of 1919 in Boston!
We will have an ELA MCAS practice on
Wednesday. Conventions - To be or not to
be its about linking and helping verbs.



Writing

We will complete those extended
endings we didnt get to last week and move
onto informative writing.

Math
As was mentioned last week,
traditional long division will be stressed
this unit. There is plenty of graph paper in
the home Math Reference folder if you are
working with your child at home. Let me
know if you need more. Unit 6 mult and
division story problems. Check out the Long
Division Instruction PPT on
TeamLubyResources.
EVERYDAY MATH FAMILY LETTERS
can be found on-line this year! As in past years,
they contain unit vocabulary, activities, and
selected homework answers. You can find these
newsletters at:
hLLp://everydaymaLh.uchlcago.edu/parenLs/4Lh-
grade/famlly-leLLers/ If you cannot access them,
please let me know.

Social Studies
Children will bring in their Family
Traditions and Artifacts organizers by
Wed. for us to revise/edit and finalize in
class in preparation for the museum on
Wed. 1/15.
We continue with rights and
responsibilities of the Bill of Rights and
other amendments to the Constitution.

Science - from the desk of Mrs. Liporto
Did you and your child find any
examples of simple machines over the
break? We will focus on pulleys and
wedges this week.
Class Tidbits!

Happy Birthday
Thomas S. 1-28



*Specials*
Art: Monday, 9:15-9:55 AM
Physical Education: Tues., 10:45 11:25 AM
Music, Wed, 11:25 12:05 PM
Health: Thursday, 10:45 11:25 AM
Chorus: Friday 10:00-10:40 AM
Media: Every other Wed. 9:10-9:30 AM
As always, your comments are welcome.
Please drop me an e-mail at school or at
home.
Barbara Luby