Thursday = Ozark Literature Festival

Tomorrow we have our first field trip!  We will be heading to the Missouri State campus for the 34th Annual Ozark Literature Festival.  Please have your child wear their Portland T-shirt or a Red shirt.  

Below are some links about the festival we are attending and the authors that we will be getting the opportunity to meet.  You may send money with your child to buy a book, however, there is also a book signing event that is open to the public tomorrow evening you can attend as well.

All About the Literature Festival

The 34th Annual Children's Literature Festival of the Ozarks
Missouri State University Campus
Thursday, October 9, 2014

 Author Presentations: 9:30 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Registration required 

Free Autograph Party: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - No registration necessary

Authors Team Meyer gets to meet 

during the day...

Mary Amato

Mary Casanova

Antony John

Obert Skye

Plays of Week #4

Reminders for the upcoming Week...

Monday 8th = send Math Test Chapter 1 corrected and signed - some already did on Friday (thank you!)
Tuesday 9th = One Sole Shoe Delivery (please be at school)
Wednesday 10th = Mid Quarter
Friday 12th = Spelling Test over numbers (explained below)

Reading = Last week, we wrote our very first Reading Response letter.  We wrote one together independent on our own books (example together pictured below).  We also have been creating our Guided Reading groups and are ready to build upon our reading foundation.  Our focus this week will be on Fiction Texts and discussing Text to Self Connections.

Writing = We will be looking at the author Allen Say books and thinking about where he has gotten is writing inspiration.  A few mentor texts we will use are entitled The Bicycle Man and Tea with Milk.  We will continue to work in our Writer's Notebooks as well as beginning "quick writes".

Math = Thank you to everyone who looked at the Chapter 1 test over Place value with their child and signed it on Thursday night.  If you have not, please do so and send the test back to school as soon as possible.  We started Chapter 2 on Friday and will continue it into this week.  This is a fairly long chapter and focuses on Addition and Subtraction.  Some vocabulary this week:  pattern, hundreds, tens, thousands, estimate, difference, regroup, minuend, and subtrahend.

Spelling = Our first week and test over the days of the week went pretty well on Friday!  This week while we will be working with some math words that we noticed we need to work on since writing numbers in word form last chapter.  The list will be going home like last week and we will test on Friday.  There are more words than last time, but we will be working with them all week.  Please practice them at home...one-twenty and bonus = hundred, thousand, and million.

Health = We are going to focus on Health and Maintenance.  Team Meyer will describe safety rules for their school and home communities this week.

Highlights of the Week

Mr. Greiner talks to Team Meyer about the 5 Listening Body parts

Are you using your 5 listening body parts at home, school, and in your community?
1. Hands empty and Raised
2. Quiet Smile
3. Brain Thinking
4. Eyes on the Speaker
5. Ears Listening

Happy Birthday Drew!

Future Friday was a success for Team Meyer!


Reading Response Letters in Team Meyer