News for this week

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Announcements:
Webber Student Council Invites You to Help Honor America’s Veterans! On Wednesday, November 8th, we will be raising money for GI Go Fund and America’s VetDogs. Students that donate $1 or more can wear a hat to school on this day. Staff members that donate $5 or more get to wear jeans to work. Each participant will receive a sticker that recognizes their participation in this event. For more information, check out these sites: https://www.gigo.org/ https://www.vetdogs.org/

Please join us for our Halloween Party on Tuesday from 2:00-3:00 following the school wide Halloween parade at 1:45. If you are coming for the parade please join us outside at 1:45. 

Team Mom – Maureen Bucci
email address:  buccim4@aol.com
phone number: 248-229-5010

Reader’s will…

·        Read together in many different ways

·        Become word detectives, solving missions

·        Look closely at tricky words and find ways to solve them

Writer’s will…

·        Study a mentor how-to text and try what they notice in their own how-to writing each day (bold words, tips and warnings, introductions, conclusions, specific words)

Mathematicians will…

·        Explore the unknown partners in an equation

·        Solve equations with unknown partners

·        Learn to play new addition game with unknown partners

In social studies students will continue to learn about generations and families. We will begin to work on our family trees.

In science we will begin to explore animals and their babies. We will talk about features certain animals have on their bodies that help them survive.

Specials This Week:

·        Monday:  MUSIC

·        Tuesday: P.E.

·        Wednesday: ART

·        Thursday: MEDIA

·        Friday: MUSIC

Dates to Remember:

·        Halloween Celebration 10/31

o   Parade: 1:45-2:00pm

o   Party: 2:00-3:00pm

·        Fall PT conferences 11/14 & 11/16

·        No school 11/22-11/25

Photos from last week:

The photos below show friends working on a math exemplar. This is a math challenge that requires higher level thinking. I read students the story problem below and got them started and they then worked in small groups to figure out the answer. They proved their answer with drawings and explained their thinking in front of the class. 

Problem:

 Frog and Toad want to plant a garden. They have 5 tomato plants, 6 pepper plants, 7 onion plants, and 6 corn plants. there is only room for 6 plants in each row. how many rows will Frog and Toad need in the garden?

News For This Week

Announcements:

·  Our Halloween Celebration will be on Tuesday, October 31^st in our classroom from 2:00-3:00 following the school wide Halloween Parade which beings at 1:45. You are invited to join in on our celebration!

Scholastic order is due Wednesday. You can visit scholastic book clubs online here: book club link
Our class code is MHGW6

·  Team Mom – Maureen Bucci 

email address:  buccim4@aol.com 

phone number: 248-229-5010.

What your student will be learning:

Reader’s will…

·        Use persistence power and become great problem solvers

·        Try out all of their strategies

·        Have their partners help them solve a tricky word

·        Make plans with their partners to re-read for a purpose

Writer’s will…

·        Be immersed in how-to books and begin to notice features of how-to writing

·        Think of a topic they are an expert on and can teach others about

·        Write step by step directions

·        Use a partner to act out their directions and go back and add more

·        Use specific action words in their writing

Mathematicians will…

·        Relate addition and subtraction problems

·        Learn to add and subtract equations written vertically

·        Practice equations mixed vertically and horizontally

·        Find and create math equations in the real world

In social studies this week students will learn about different types of families. We will talk about similarities and differences between families. We will create a family portrait and begin to talk about a family tree.

Specials This Week:

·        Monday: media

·        Tuesday: music

·        Wednesday: P.E.

·        Thursday: art

·        Friday: media

Dates to Remember:

·        Trunk or Treat 10/26 at Friendship Park 6:30-7:30 in lieu of an admission cost, please donate a bag of candy

·        Halloween Celebration 10/31

o   Parade: 1:45-2:00pm

o   Party: 2:00-3:00pm

·        Fall PT conferences 11/14 & 11/16 (Book Fair 11/9-11/17)

·        No school 11/22-11/25

Photos & Videos from Last Week:

Pumpkin Investigation

 Trying out pumpkin seeds. We had garlic salt and cinnamon sugar flavors. They were a hit!

Showing our spirit for Detroit Day!

Matthew & Bralyn telling and solving story problems with pictures and equations

Math bowling to practice subtraction equations

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Announcements:

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THIS WEEK WILL BE SPIRIT WEEK!

• Monday - PJ Day
• Tuesday Oct 17th - College Day
• Wednesday October 18th - Class Color Day RAU: BLUE
• Thursday Oct 19th - Detroit Sports day
• Friday Oct 20th - Dragon UNITE day- Green and White 

·        Our Halloween Celebration will be on Tuesday, October 31^st in our classroom from 2:00-3:00 following the school wide Halloween Parade which beings at 1:45. You are invited to join in on our celebration!

·        Team Mom – Mrs. Goethals has asked that each classroom have a “Team Mom” who is a previous Webber parent. Our Team Mom will be Maureen Bucci. You may contact her if you have any information regarding Webber that you are unsure of (i.e. lunch, attendance, lost and found, parking, etc) instead of contacting me. Her email address is buccim4@aol.com and her cell phone number is 248-229-5010.

·        Volunteering – As you become finger printed please let me know. I am working on a formal Volunteer calendar which will start at the end of October and I will gladly add you to it. Remember I do have both a morning (8:15-9:15) and an afternoon (1:00-2:00) volunteer time.

This week in Reader’s Workshop students will

-inquire how readers know when they need to go back and fix things up

-think about the whole book and ask, “what would make sense?”

-think about what they already know about a topic to help them solve tricky words

-ask themselves “what sounds right?”

This week in Math students will

-draw math pictures for subtraction equations

-generate their own subtraction story problems

-understand the relationship between addition and subtraction

This week in Writer’s Workshop students will

-use all they know to revise and fix up their writing from the unit

-use a checklist and ask themselves if they “did it like a first grader?”

-add covers and titles to their stories

This week in Science students will investigate pumpkins as we continue to learn about how plants grow. They get to watch a pumpkin being cut open. They will also get to feel the pulp and seeds and record their observations.

Specials This Week:

·        Monday: Art

·        Tuesday: Media

·        Wednesday: Music

·        Thursday: P.E.

·        Friday: Art

Dates to Remember:

·        10/15 Lake Orion Homecoming Parade 3:30

·        10/16-10/20 Spirit Week

·        Fall PT conferences 11/14 & 11/16

·        No school 11/22-11/25

Photos & Videos from the previous week:

Looking at parts of a Mentor Text to try out in our own writing

Celebrating the end of our Reading Unit by reading to DK Friends

Our class with paralympian David Blair

News for 10-9

Announcements:

·       Raz-Kids - Your child can read now read online on their Raz-Kids Account. You can do this on a computer or an iPad. Download the Raz-Kids App (if using the iPad). It is a robot. If you are using a computer go to the kids Raz-Kids login here: https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login/teacherUsername/. Raz-Kids accounts are shared in our building so Raz-Kids logins are as follows:

Last name Accardo-Harrington login: jdimaggiok
Last name Jones-Xia login: dburkse
The password is the banana graphic for every student

Click on the Reading Assignment and books at their independent reading level will come up. They can listen to the book, read it on their own, and answer comprehension questions. Once they take the quizzes they will earn starts which they can in turn buy items to build their rocket with. We have practiced using Raz-Kids on the iPads on Friday so they should be familiar with it.

·       Team Mom – Mrs. Goethals has asked that each classroom have a “Team Mom” who is a previous Webber parent. Our Team Mom will be Maureen Bucci. You may contact her if you have any information regarding Webber that you are unsure of (i.e. lunch, attendance, lost and found, parking, etc) instead of contacting me. Her email address is buccim4@aol.com and her cell phone number is 248-229-5010.\

·       Volunteering – As you become finger printed please let me know. I am working on a formal Volunteer calendar which will start at the end of October and I will gladly add you to it. Remember I do have both a morning (8:15-9:15) and an afternoon (1:00-2:00) volunteer time.

This week in Reader’s Workshop students will

·       Practice good reading partner habits

·       Be organized using their planning mats

·       Set goals with their reading partners

This week in Math students will

·       Learn addition strategies such as counting on from the greater number

·       Learn to play the addition game Unknown Totals

This week in Writer’s Workshop students will

·       Notice features in a mentor text does and try it in their own writing

This week in Science students will

·       Learn how pumpkins grow and stay alive

·       Compare the life cycle of a pumpkin to the lifecycle of an apple

·       Observe plants on a nature walk

·       Learn the job of the plant parts

Specials This Week:

·       Monday: P.E.

·       Tuesday: Art

·       Wednesday: Media

·       Thursday: Music

·       Friday: P.E.

Dates to Remember:

·       10/15 Lake Orion Homecoming Parade 3:30

·       10/16-10/20 Spirit Week

• Monday Oct 16th - PJ day
• Tuesday Oct 17th - College Day
• Wednesday October 18th - Class Color Day RAU: BLUE
• Thursday Oct 19th - Detroit Sports day
• Friday Oct 20th - Dragon UNITE day- Green and White 

·       Halloween Celebration 10/31

o   Parade: 1:45-2:00pm

o   Party: 2:00-3:00pm

·       Fall PT conferences 11/14 & 11/16

·       No school 11/22-11/25

Photos from last week:

Flash light reading with small groups to increase our stamina and celebrate the end of a bend in our unit!

Fire cadets visited us and taught us about fire safety. We learned to only call 9-1-1 if there is an emergency, to sleep with our door closed, to have a safe spot outside our house in case of a fire, and to stop, drop, and roll. 

Kyler and Vivienne sharing the "counting on" strategy for addition. 

Students practice signing our school song! Lyrics are below.

We’re growing up together, here at webber

we love to play together, we love webber

we love to learn together, here at webber

working as a team, we love webber 

Webber is so cool, webber’s the best school

webber is so cool, webber’s the best school

  

We’re growing up together, here at webber

we love to learn, we’re a team forever

we love to learn together, here at webber

working as a team, we love webber 

working as a team, we love webber 

working as a team, we love webber