By Heidi Huey on
10/27/2007
Weekly Theme Update
Last week we finished up our mapping unit and took our end of unit quiz today. Look online early next week to see how they did. This week we will be starting our unit on Balance and Motion. This is going to be a great unit with a lot of hands on experiments and will run for four weeks.
Did You Know?
Last week we had an interesting training on copyright and making sure we are adhering to these federal laws. We have realized that we can not put copies of the homework online unless we have created it or have approval from the creator. Thus, you will not see any more homework attached online. Students can ask for a paper copy fro ...
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By Heidi Huey on
10/16/2007
Halloween Party the 31st
Next Wednesday will be our first classroom party of the school year. My room mom will be contacting those who signed up to help out early this week. The party will take place the last hour of school (12:35-1:30-early release day). Students will be given time after recess to put on their costumes that they brought in a bag that day. Please remember the no masks, fact paint, hair dye, weapons or gore rules for the costumes. In lieu of my son not being able to wear a costume to his school, we save his costume we picked out (red Power Ranger this year) at home to help pass out the candy. Thank you all for your help and support to make this party a success!
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By Heidi Huey on
10/11/2007
Technical Problems!!!!
Wondering where the newsletter is this week? This weekend the IT guys were tweaking things on the website and we were having residual problems getting things working again on our end. All is better now, so here is your weekly news!
Weekly Theme Update
This week we will be continuing our lessons on mapping. We will be learning about what a key is, how to read one and make one, what important things we should have on our maps, and how to use a coordinate grid. We will also be learning what are the 7 main continents and 4 main oceans. We will learn where they are, their names and a little bit about them. There is no homework this week. Please make sure your bedroom maps are turned in... they were due today (Tuesday, October 16th)!
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By Heidi Huey on
10/5/2007
Our First Field Trip
We will be having our first field trip of the year to the Berry Patch Farms on Thursday, October 25th. Forms are due by October 16th, when we come back. If you can come and help out, please let us know on the form.
Conference Week is Here!!!
This week is conference week. What that means is that there is no school Wednesday afternoon (early, early release of 11:30) or all day on Thursday or Friday. Having this time off from the children enables us to schedule times to meet with you. In the Monday folders you will see your conference time based upon your top three choices. Please make sure to be a little early in order to get all of your conference time. Remember you only get 20 minutes. We look forward to seeing you then.&am ...
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By Heidi Huey on
9/24/2007
Weekly Theme Update-
Last week everyone turned in their favorite family recipe. It was great that we will all get to share our family recipes and the memories around them. This week will be our final week for the family unit and in celebration, everyone needs to bring in their favorite family food (ideally the same as last week's recipe). I have many families signed up, but if I haven't heard from you by the end of Monday, I will be making some phone calls to get you signed up!
This week we will be working on our final drafts of our Family Trees. The kids did a great job on their rough drafts of their family trees the week before last. Now we just need to put them on a poster and make them beautiful. One of the nice touches one of the kids did in class is to actually draw a tree in the back ground and put the family tree outline over the top of it. It was ...
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By Heidi Huey on
9/21/2007
Weekly Theme Update
Last week we went over our family trees (up to grandparents and other immediate family). The kids really enjoyed seeing me draw mine on the board and we all enjoyed learning more about each other's families and how to make a family tree. They all did a great job on this activity!
This week we will be continuing our unit on the Family. We will be taking the information we gathered last week for homework and constructing our Family Shields in class. We will also be reading stories about families and how great they are. This week students will be asked to bring in a Family recipe for homework. Please make sure they write (not create) these on their own. Remember also that I will be copying these and making them into a classroom Family Recipe cookbook that we will all get a copy of, so make sure to pick one you are willing ...
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By Heidi Huey on
9/9/2007
Literacy and Math in Full Swing
In this week's Weekly Folder, you will be receiving a report on how your child did with our Fall assessments and who their teachers will be for Literacy and Math. Last Wednesday was our first day of switching and the kids are doing really well with it. On Tuesday night, you will get to meet your child's Literacy and Math teachers and to see what they will be covering for the year and learn their expectations. Seeing as this is our first full week of switching, expect to see homework from all classes, including Theme, in their purple Homework Folder. If it doesn't come home, just shoot me an email so I can remind them :)
Congratulations Class!!!!
Our class is the winner for the most in attendance to ...
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By Heidi Huey on
9/4/2007
Switching Soon
Testing is taking a wee bit longer this year and thus we will start switching no later than Wednesday. When we do start switching we will let you know with a note home that day! Thank you for your patience!
Ebooks Due Tuesday, the 11th
The first week of school we sent home a packet with an E-book for our annual fundraising campaign. If you will not be selling any E-books, please send the packet back with the E-book enclosed. If you choose to sell the E-books, please make sure to send the packet back with the proper money enclosed. You can sell the enclosed book too or send it back. Just make sure to note it on the order form if you sold it.
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By Heidi Huey on
8/25/2007
This week in Theme-Friendship Unit
This week our activities will be based on what is a friend and some good character traits of a friend. Their is a brief homework assignment on 'What is a friend?' for your child to complete and return by Friday. We will continue finishing up our assessments of the children on their reading, spelling, writing and math abilities this week. We will be done by the end of the week in order to sort them and place them into like-ability groupings for class next Monday!
Share Days
Every week, in my classroom, students will get the opportunity to share once a week. On Tuesdays, students with last names starting with A throuh La will get to share. On Thursdays, students with the last names starting with Le through Z will ...
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By Heidi Huey on
8/20/2007
To read this blog, click on the Weekly Homeroom News link above :)
Welcome!
I
would first like to start off by welcoming everyone to the new school
year. I am looking forward to having a
spectacular year teaching your children and working with all of you this year. This
year we have lots of great things planned to learn, which we will go over on
curriculum night on the 18th. Stay tuned for weekly updates online at my home web page posted on the first school day of each week at the end of the day. Here's to a great year!
Who is Mrs. Huey!
This year I am blessed with
having many families whom I already know in the class this year. Fo ...
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