Week of August 25th

Hopefully the students are starting to get into a little bit of a routine.  Here is some important information for this week:

We will be starting our first story in our reading series.  Unless it is a short week, we usually read the story on Wednesday and take the selection test on Thursday.  Students will be receiving their spelling lists on Monday and the test will be on Friday.  I will be providing the students a specific link to www.spellingcity.com which will provide them a program that allows them to study their spelling words on their own without the help of another person.  I will be posting that link on my blog for all of the students to use.

Also, this week we are starting our math multiplication timings.  Each day we will take a 1-minute multiplication timing.  In order for the students to be successful this year in math it is very important they learn their multiplication facts.  These are not for a grade but strictly practice.  Aside from the multiplication timings, we will be continuing Topic 1.  Just a reminder, if a student finishes his/her math homework at school and I check it and they have all of the problems correct, I will put a "check" next to their math homework in their assignment notebook to acknowledge to you that it has been completed and checked.

On Friday, our class will be holding our 1st Semester Student Council elections.  We will be voting for 1 Boy and 1 Girl to represent our class.  In order to run for student council, any student interested must give a short speech on why he/she would be the best person to represent our class.  Any student that runs but is not elected may run again in December for our 2nd semester representatives.  Student council meetings are held in the mornings before school at 7:30AM on the following dates:

September 10

September 24

October 8

October 22

November 5

November 19

December 3

December 17

Please consider the dates and times of the meetings.  It is very important that if a student is selected they are able to make it to the meetings.

Here is this week's spelling review:

List #1

List #2

  

Welcome Back!

I hope all of the students had a great summer.  This week we will be learning the routines of the classroom.  We will begin our first math topic, however we will not begin our first reading unit until next week.

Thursday, August 21st, is CCIS Open House from 6:00-7:30PM.  I will be sending more information home later in the week about that.

Please do no hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Mr. Boresi

Reading Connect Log-In

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Essay Outline

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/essaymap/

Week of April 7th

Spelling Review

Week of March 31st

I hope everyone had a relaxing spring break.  We have now entered the stretch run of the school year.  The calendar will soon be changing to April and before we know it, May.  Here is some important information for this week:

Tuesday - McDonalds Fundraiser - McDonald's will be donating a portion of the sales between 5-8PM on Tuesday night to CCIS.  Students will be given a coupon to bring home that needs to be presented upon purchasing your meal.  This is great way for CCIS to raise some extra money.

Wednesday - Last day to register for the "Donuts for Dad" or "Muffins for Mom" events.  Please call the main office if you would like to register.

Friday - Baseball Day - As the Major League Baseball season kicks off this week, we will be celebrating it by having a baseball day in our classroom.  All of the lessons on Friday will be baseball related.  Throughout the day, students will be able to enjoy food that they might eat if they were to attend a baseball day.  Go Cubs!

Week of February 24th

This Friday, February 28th, we will be having our ISAT Kickoff Assembly.  Next Tuesday, we will be starting our ISAT Testing.  Student need to make sure they eat a healthy breakfast and get plenty of rest throughout the week.

Week of January 29th

Spelling Review