March 3, 2017

Purse Pages
Edition 12
Read Across America
Dear Parents,
/ In addition, we
As you are all aware, spend some extra
this week was Dr. time reading
Suess s Birthday. ourselves. It has
We spent time been wonderful to
getting to know who watch how much
Theodor Suess Geisel reading stamina the
was and celebrating class has built since
as a school all week the start of the
long. We had fun in year. Most of them
our room taking on are upset when we
some similar dont have time for
challenges as Dr. independent reading
Suess did in his during the day,
career. which is rare.

Whats Happening in the Classroom?

ELA The students will be have
During ELA this week creating two evidence/examples to
we did a lot of work projects to wrap up back it up from the
comparing texts we this unit. They will different text we
have read. The be creating a data have read. I am
students completed a disc to represent excited to see how
table on qualities Amelia Earharts life. their final pieces
heroes share and will It essentially is a turn out.
be using that biography, but done
in a more Students learned
information to how to write
complete a Triple creative/fun way for
the kids. powerful
Venn Diagram to introductions and
compare 3 people We will wrap up our conclusions this week
they thought were Heroism unit with a and had fun adding
heroic from stories Explanatory Essay. text features to
we have read. Many The students will be their Westward
of them have refined writing a piece Expansion books!
their definition of a explaining what a
hero. hero is. Through all We are on our 7th
the stories they unit of Caesars
We revisited ALL of English and the kids
our essential have read and the
writing and analyzing love learning the new
questions and will challenging
continue to use them they have done. Each
student has defined vocabulary and Latin
as we work on a stems.
culminating project. what a hero is in
their eyes. They
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Continued
Social Studies
The students
completed their study challenging, yet such
of the early English an important part of
Settlements. We the composition of the process. We will
compared how they each planet, and be wrapping up our
were similar and surface temperature.
different. They are unit on multiplication
all intrigued by the Math and division of decimals
lost colony of Roanoke next week and moving
In Math, we have
Science onto fractions. With a
worked on a lot of
solid understanding of
In science, we problem solving skills
decimals the students
continued to study the over the past few
will begin to see the
planets. As a class we weeks. The students
relationship between
learned how to are working hard at
decimals and fractions!
remember the order of explaining their
the planets from the thought process. They The hope is they will
sun. We are trying to are good at solving the find working with
answer the focus problems, but fractions even easier
question: How does our explaining why they now.
solar system interact? are dong what they .
In this process we are is more
have looked at which
planets have satellites
 Questions to Ask Your Child
.
1. What did you do in art, gym, music, and
library this week?
2. How are your Caesars English quizzes going?
3. What is Dr. Suesss real name? Can you
Phone: share another interesting fact you learned
(224)-765-3674
about him this week?
E-Mail: 4. What are the two types of communication
rpurse@nssd112.org
Ms. Purse is working on with you?
5. What was different about your MJS this
week?
6. Can you tell me why the quotient of two
decimals decreases?
7. Tell me one thing you can improve upon next
week at school?
8. What do you think are the most important
qualities of a hero?
9. You are almost finished with your Westward
Expansion book. What did you get add to it
that made it really look like an
informational book?
10. Were you able to pay your rent this month?
Did you have any fines? How do you get
most of your bonuses?