Week of September 15th

Just a reminder, pictures are this Friday.  Many students have turned in their picture forms already.  If you would like for your child to receive school pictures, please turn in the picture form on or before Friday.  All students will get their picture taken for the yearbook regardless if they are purchasing pictures or not.

Friday is also Tech Day.  Students are responsible for any tech device they bring in.

We will be taking our Topic 2 Math Test on Wednesday of these week.  We will be reviewing on Tuesday.  I will have math tests graded on Wednesday and then corrections will be due Thursday morning.

There is a PSO meeting tomorrow night, September 16th, at 6:30PM in the CCIS Cafeteria.  All parents that are able to attend are encouraged to go.

Any student wishing to turn in a T-Shirt design for the CCIS T-Shirt competition must turn their design in by next Monday, September 22nd.  Also, if you have not turned in the Art permission slip, please do so by Thursday of this week.

Here is this week's Spelling Review List #1.

Here is this week's Spelling Review List #2.

Cause/Effect

Week of September 8th

Math test corrections are due tomorrow (Monday).  If any students want to receive additional points on their test they needed to correct their mistakes, have a parent sign the test, and then they will need to turn it in.  Test corrections are not mandatory, however I would strongly advise students taking advantage of this opportunity.

Wednesday of this week will be an 11:35AM early dismissal.  Please discuss with your child how he/she will be getting home on Wednesday if it is different than what they are used to doing after school.  We will also be taking our reading MAP test on Wednesday.  This will be our final MAP test of the Fall season.  

I sent picture forms home on Friday.  Pictures are not until Friday, September 19th.  Forms can be returned any time and I will hold on to them until picture day.  

We will be starting Topic 2 this week in Math.  I have provided students their IXL log-in information.  We will use this website to practice math skills at school, but this is also something they can be doing on their own.  Students should also to continue to practice their multiplication facts.  

The first student council meeting is Wednesday, September 10th at 7:30AM.  


Here is this week's Spelling Review

Week of September 2nd

This week we start MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) testing.  Our first test will be our Math portion, and we will be taking that Tuesday afternoon.  We will be taking our Reading portion next week.  The students will also take these two tests in both the winter and the spring to track their progress throughout the school year.  

Students will be receiving their spelling lists Tuesday.  With it being a short week, please be sure to remind your child to study his/her list of words.  We will still read our weekly story on Wednesday of this week and take the reading test on Thursday. 

We will be having our first math test on Friday.  The day before the math test we always take time to review all material that was covered in the topic.  Students will also have a practice test that they can review problems from in order to prepare them for the test.  We have started our daily multiplication quizzes.  Some students are doing a great job while other students need a lot of practice with their multiplication facts.

This Friday night is the first home football game.  Hopefully some of the students will be able to make it out to the game to cheer on our high school football team.  On Friday of this week, the students will be read an announcement on what type of behavior is expected when attending a football game at the high school.

Here is this week's Spelling Review

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

http://connected.mcgraw-hill.com/connected/login.do

Essay Outline

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

Week of April 7th

Spelling Review