M-Step Testing

Tomorrow we will be starting our M-Step testing. Please make sure your child gets a good nights rest, a healthy breakfast and has a positive start to their day. All of these will help contribute to your child doing the best they can on this important test.

Also, please make sure your child is at school on time. If they make it on time, they will receive a ticket to enter into a raffle for a chance to win a $5 gift card!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Thank you,

Mr. Grzesik & Mr. Peri

Scholastic Book Orders 5/29

Scholastic book orders will be placed on Friday, May 29^th. Please make sure to have those book orders in by that Friday. Don’t forget, the more books you and your child order help us get more books for our classroom. If you’re ordering online please use our classroom code, P34QC.

Thanks,

-Ian Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

We will be continuing our research report reading workshop lessons. We will learn about using the lingo of experts. We will also write to think about nonfiction topics.

WRITING NEWS:

We will be continuing our research report unit by We will also start choosing what our subtopic headings will be for our very own nonfiction book.

SPELLING NEWS:

No spelling this week due to the 4 day week and our M-Step testing.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their May reading log. Those reading logs will be due June 1^st.

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

We will be continuing our research report reading workshop lessons. We will learn about becoming experts on shared nonfiction topics. We will also learn about pursuing collaborative inquiries with commitment.

WRITING NEWS:

We will be continuing our research report unit by creating some basic reports using graphic organizers to help get us used to imputing data and putting data in our own words. We will also start choosing what our subtopic headings will be for our very own nonfiction book.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is adding –er, -est. Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

larger

sadder

widest

sharper

closest

hotter

saddest

redder

reddest

wider

later

largest

closer

hottest

latest

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their May reading log. Those reading logs will be due June 1^st.

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

We finished up our narrative nonfiction unit last week and this week we will be starting our research report reading workshop lessons. We will learn about becoming experts on shared nonfiction topics. We will also learn about pursuing collaborative inqui9ries with commitment.

WRITING NEWS:

We will be starting our research report unit by creating some basic reports using graphic organizers to help get us used to imputing data and putting data in our own words.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is adding -ing. Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

coming

skating

taking

giving

choosing

smiling

baking

sliding

changing

waving

leaving

making

hoping

trading

having

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their April reading log. Those reading logs will be due May 1^st

PAXTON ELI

WE MISS ALL OF YOU!
Love, Mrs. Darling and Paxton

April Scholastic Book Orders

Scholastic book orders will be placed on Thursday, April 30^th. Please make sure to have those book orders in by that Thursday. Don’t forget, the more books you and your child order help us get more books for our classroom. If you’re ordering online please use our classroom code, JJQRM.

Thanks,

-Ian Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing our narrative nonfiction reading workshop lessons. We will learn about achievement texts and disaster texts, two templates in narrative nonfiction. We will also learn about envisioning (an other strategies) to figure out unfamiliar words.

WRITING NEWS:

We finished our final drafts of our personal essays! We will be starting research reports soon.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is compound words. Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

herself

nobody

airplane

grandfather

someone

rainbow

anything

grandmother

everything

afternoon

sunshine

himself

anybody

something

without

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their April reading log. Those reading logs will be due May 1^st

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be starting our narrative nonfiction reading workshop lessons. We will work on identifying nonfiction text structures and adjusting the students reading. We will also practice reading nonfiction narratives as stories with main characters.

WRITING NEWS:

We finished our final drafts of our personal essays! We will be starting research reports soon.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is adding a suffix (-ly). Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

slowly

mainly

badly

hourly

suddenly

lately

partly

closely

really

lastly

plainly

loudly

shortly

monthly

softly

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their April reading log. Those reading logs will be due May 1^st

March is Reading Month Activities

As you know, March is Reading Month and here at Roosevelt Primary we have been participating in many fun reading activities. Last week we went to Mrs. Schichtel’s 1^st grade class to read with a buddy. A 3^rd grader got paired up with a 1^st grader and spend some time reading together. It was a blast and we all owned our behavior!

We also had pajama day. Lots of fun was had when we brought in our blankets and stuffed animals and got to read with a partner!

Please continue to read with your child at home for at least 20 minutes a night.

Thanks,

-Mr. Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing our Mixed Genre Series reading workshop lessons. We will work on organizing our thinking and talk by stopping to see importance. We will also link our comments to the remarks of others.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how writers revise and edit their personal essays. We will also celebrate our complete personal essays by typing them and then reading them to our small groups.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is contractions. Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

he’s

what’s

don’t

I’m

that’s

doesn’t

there’s

she’s

isn’t

I’ll

won’t

here’s

didn’t

who’s

can’t

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their March reading log. Those reading logs will be due April 1^st

March Scholastic Book Orders

Scholastic book orders will be placed on Tuesday, March 24^th. Please make sure to have those book orders in by Tuesday. Don’t forget, the more books you and your child order help us get more books for our classroom. If you’re ordering online please use our classroom code, JJQRM.

Happy reading,

-Ian Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing our Mixed Genre Series reading workshop lessons. We will work on using what we know about the series to make predictions. We will also think about what the character, story, and series is trying to teach us. Lastly, we will develop an idea about a character then nudge thinking to more ideas about that character.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how writers revise and edit their personal essays. We will also celebrate our complete personal essays by typing them and then reading them to our small groups.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is Double Consonants plus y. Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

carry

bunny

happy

muddy

berry

furry

puppy

sorry

merry

jelly

hurry

pretty

cherry

worry

funny

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their March reading log. Those reading logs will be due April 1^st

Raz Kids

We are always looking to get students reading as much as possible (especially during March is Reading month!!!) so we have had many students working on reading using a computer program called Raz Kids. This program uses the student’s current reading level and has them read or listen to books online in a fun and engaging way.

You can access this program at home here.

My teacher login is: igrzesik

Please have your student use this program as much as possible. The more reading they do, the better.

Thanks,

-Mr. Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing our Mixed Genre Series reading workshop lessons. We will work on noticing the problems characters face and how they deal with them to learn more. We will also look for patterns between multiple books within a series. We will finally compare how the character’s situation or problem is similar or different between stories.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how writers support their point of view with evidence in the form of focused short stories. We will also learn how to create essay conclusions that connect back to the point of view.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is Double Consonants. Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

supper

happen

pepper

kitten

sudden

letter

dinner

cotton

lesson

mitten

bottom

summer

better

ladder

ribbon

Our spelling test will be on Thursday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their March reading log. Those reading logs will be due April 1^st

March Reading Logs

March reading logs are going home today. The goal of our reading log is to have your child read at least 20 minutes a night and have a total of 580 minutes read at the end of the month! After your child has read their 20 minutes please have them color in that days calendar square. If you could have a designated spot for the reading log to stay, so your child knows right where it’s at, that would be wonderful.

Don’t forget, reading logs are due on April 1^st. If your child completes their reading log and it is signed by both you and your child, they earn a pizza from Pizza Hut! Pretty awesome!

Here is a link to the Book It reading log page just in case yours got misplaced.

Happy Reading!

March is Reading Month Book Swap

We will be having a book swap this Friday for March is Reading Month. Please send your child with any books that they have outgrown or don’t read anymore. They will be able to swap those books for an equal amount of books that will be of more interest to them. Unfortunately, if your child doesn’t bring in any books to swap they won’t be able to get any new books.

This is a great and inexpensive way to get your child new books that they will be excited about! Please take advantage of this great opportunity!

Thanks,

Mr. Peri and Mr. Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be continuing our Mixed Genre Series reading workshop lessons. We will work on creating ways for entering into and continuing a conversation. We will do this by learning about a new bookmark that we will get that has many different conversation starters on them. We will also pay attention to the interactions and relationships of characters to learn more about them. We will do this by watching “Simon’s Cat” and reading “Bink and Gollie” to review character traits.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how writers support their point of view with evidence in the form of focused short stories. We will also learn how to create essay conclusions that connect back to the point of view.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is r-Controlled Vowels (-air, -ear, -are, -ere, -eir). Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

bear

there

fare

wear

air

pear

chair

care

hare

their

hair

bare

fair

pair

where

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their March reading log. Those reading logs will be due April 1^st

Native American Experience Photos

The Wednesday before mid-winter break, the 3^rd grade students here at Roosevelt were able to learn all about Native American culture. An in school field trip was set up for them to get a hands on experience with many tools and items that Native American’s used in their everyday lives. The students were able to touch many interesting items and learned what they were and how they were used.

These are some photos of our class family during that experience!

Enjoy!

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be starting our new Reader’s Workshop unit: book series and clubs. Our reader’s will be paired up with a partner and they will each read two books from the same series to compare and contrast the two stories. This week we will preview and plan to read series books. We will also notice patterns in their characters actions and behaviors as they read.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how to organize our ideas using idea/detail charts and parallel structure. We will create introductions for their personal essays and support their point of view with evidence in the form of focused short stories.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-or, -ur, -ear, and -ir). Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

word

fur

early

circus

turn

skirt

earth

work

curl

learn

hurt

dirt

earn

shirt

heard

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their February reading log. Those reading logs will be due March 2^nd.

Mid Winter Break

There will be no school from February 16th-20th for mid winter break.  School resumes on Monday February 23rd.    

Valentine's Day Celebration

We will be having a Valentine’s Day celebration this Friday the 13^th. If your student is planning on bringing valentines for the class please make sure that he/she brings one for each student. We have 26 students in our classroom and a class list will follow.

Favour

Cesar

Kaden

Quran

Joshua

Mariah

Layan

Tristan

Brandon

JT

Djuan

Blair

Keelan

Gabrielle

Micah

Cerianna

Elijah

Zavier

Parker

Tayshawn

Ashira

Jordan

Makayla

Maria

Tr'evontee

Egypt

Any donations of treats are greatly appreciated.  We can also use paper lunch bags or zip lock style bags to take extra food items home.

Thanks,

Michael Peri

Valentine's Day Celebration

We will be having a Valentine’s Day celebration this Friday the 13^th. If your student is planning on bringing valentines for the class please make sure that he/she brings one for each student. We have 26 students in our classroom and a class list will follow.

Deacon

Kaelynn

Keith

Bryanna

Joseph

Mekhi

Jeilon

Issac

Jordan

Taylor

Joshua

Isaiah

Victoria

Jewell

Trevaughn

Britney

Raina

Davion

Nicolas

Jaylin

Harmoni

Yahshua

Taylor

Asia

Tabytha

Michael

If you would like to donate any treats to our classroom, please make sure and post what you would like to bring so we don’t have a lot of duplicate items. Things like candy, cupcakes, juice boxes, chips, and plastic Ziploc bags would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Ian Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be working on building our reading stamina by reading long and strong from our book boxes. We will practice any strategy we have learned so far this year.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how to support big ideas from stories with evidence from their own lives by reading a couple of short stories and thinking about how they relate to our own lives. We will also learn how to create opinion statements for our own personal essays by using a graphic organizer to help us capture our thoughts on opinions.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-or, -ar, -ore, and –oar). Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

story

wore

north

board

form

corner

warm

score

morning

forget

before

storm

tore

order

war

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their February reading log. Those reading logs will be due March 2^nd.

Study Island

We have started using a new computer program here at Roosevelt called Study Island. Every student from Mr. Peri and Mr. Grzesik’s class gets to go on this program at least 40 minutes a week to help practice some of the things we’ve been learning in the classroom. You can access this program at home and we would love to see your student using this at home 3 nights a week.

Your student’s log in information is:

User name: firstname.lastname@fps

Password: 123

Your student can practice any of the information that has been placed on their by one of their teachers.

Don’t forget to have your child try there best and if they get above a 75% on the information you get to take a break and play a game!

Find the website here: www.studyisland.com

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we learned that readers expect to learn alongside their characters. We will do this by thinking about life lessons Opal, the main character from “Because of Winn-Dixie”, learned and how we can attribute that to our lives. We will also learn that readers celebrate the lessons characters have learned that apply to their own lives. We will do that by reading in our partnerships and discussing those life lessons.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we started our next Writers Workshop unit, opinion/argument writing. We will learn how to collect ideas like an essayist. We will also complete a couple of sections in our data binders. The sections we will complete are our mid-year goals and our quick write reflection page. We will look at our first quick write piece and compare that to our most recent quick write piece to see how we have grown as a writer.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-sh,-ch,-th,-wr, and –tch)

shape

church

watch

father

wrap

check

finish

sharp

mother

write

catch

chase

shall

thick

wrote

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their January reading log. Those reading logs will be due February 2^nd.

Scholastic book orders will be placed on Friday January 30^th. This is a change from what was placed on the book order. Please make sure to have those book orders in by this Friday. Don’t forget, the more books you and your child order help us get more books for our classroom.

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week, as a reader, we learned that characters have what it takes to overcome challenges. We will do this by reading the blurbs on the back of multiple books and thinking what kind of traits that character shows to get them through any potential challenges. We also will learn that secondary characters often teach the main character something. We will discuss the secondary characters from our mentor text ‘Because of Winn-Dixie’ and find out what effect they had on our main character.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we started our next Writers Workshop unit, opinion/argument writing. We completed our pre-assessment writing piece and will learn how to collect ideas like an essayist.

SPELLING NEWS:

No Spelling this week due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day as well as a records day on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their January reading log. Those reading logs will be due February 2^nd.

Our Gonoodle Brain Breaks!

Wondering what to do on that cold/snow day while your child is looking bored or has a bit too much energy? Maybe they just want to do some dances at home? If that’s the case then head to www.gonoodle.com and have them do a couple of fun “brain breaks” at home. These are fun little movement activities that help them refocus or get their wiggles out.

The website is free to sign up for and offers tons of good videos for kids to move along to!

Still not sure about signing up for it? Check us out doing some of our “brain breaks”!

Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Parade here at Roosevelt!

Mr. Peri and Mr. Grzesik would like to invite you to come see your child walk around our school in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

At 2:00 on Friday afternoon we will be parading around the school (with many very cool art pieces).

Please join us in this march to honor the life and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week noticed when characters act in surprising ways and question why they did that. We will also learn that readers expect characters to change or grow and learn from their experiences. Finally we learned that readers k now that characters face struggles/challenges that become turning points in the story.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and transferred that into a piece of writing about how you could improve yourself, your family, your community, the nation and finally your community. We also created a piece of art work to go along with our writing!

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling words went home on Monday. Just as a reminder, these words should be going home every week, as hard copy, in your students school/home folder. (long o sound spelled ow, oa and o)

snow

load

almost

row

soak

window

foam

most

flow

goat

throw

float

blow

below

soap

The spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their January reading log. Those reading logs will be due February 2^nd.

Reading / Writing / Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we reviewed our expectations for Reading Workshop. We got back into the swing of things by reading long and strong from our book boxes.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we learned about New Year’s resolutions and what they are. We made our own New Year’s resolutions that you will see in our data binders. We also published our best birthday ever stories that you will see in our third grade hall!

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling words went home on Monday. (Irregular plurals)

goose

woman

calf

fish

mouse

leaf

children

geese

calves

leaves

half

child

women

mice

halves

The spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their January reading log. Those reading logs will be due February 2^nd.