Crew News

January 27, 2017

Updates

Coming This Week:

We had a rough week with some behavior

problems that have resurfaced. As a whole
class we are having problems giving respect
to speakers and presenters who are
addressing the group; whether in our
classroom, the computer lab, library, etc. I
am working on emphasizing that showing
respect does not just apply to teachers, but
to parent volunteers and our crewmates as
well. Good behaviors are being reinforced
with earning extra sand dollars and tons of
positive praise, however students may come
home having moved their clips down more
regularly than in the past. My goal is to wean
students from clipping down so that becomes
less frequently seen throughout the daythis
was the approach taken at the beginning of
the year.
MAJOR compliments to the crew on being
extremely well behaved moving through the
hallways this week. Our class received
compliments from multiple teachers and staff
members. Let s keep it up!!

Save the Date

Monday, Jan. 30th Biography Booklet
due (extension date)
nd

Thursday, Feb. 2 PTA STEAM

Night, 6pm for JRE families
Friday, Feb. 3rd Biography Tri-fold
Poster due in class
Tuesday, Feb. 7th Biography Wax
Museum, 1pm-3pm Costume and
Speech due

Math: We are wrapping up our Measurement Unit

with a review on Monday and then the Unit Test on
Tuesday. We will be turning our focus to place value
and building numbers to begin our Unit 4 studies.
Literacy: We will be getting new vocabulary words
this week as well as a new shared reading story and
will have a comprehension quiz Friday, following our
usual weekly pattern. We are also going to start
working more on Utah Compose to prepare students
for the writing portion of the SAGE test, coming in
April. As our Biography Unit comes to a close we will
begin turning our writing attention to writing opinion
pieces.
Spelling: New spelling words coming home in the
Homework Packet. I have uploaded the spelling
lists onto Spelling City
(www.spellingcity.com/tolbert3). Next week the
spelling groups will be resorted to accommodate
for the patterns students have mastered and/or
need to continue working on.
HOMEWORK NOTE: I will not be attaching the
Sorts Page in the HW packets, however doing sorts
is still an option for getting that 15-20 min.
practice in. Any other preferred methods for
studying spelling is definitely alright as long as the

Behavior
Chatting with our neighbors has become a problem
again during work time, so we are seeing more
clip-downs than we d like this week.

This Weeks Class Goal:

This week we are working on freezing
after an attention signal so we are
ready to be active listeners.