Assignments 8/29 – 9/2

Happy Monday! I pray everyone had a blessed weekend.

Here is a link to this week’s assignments. They may change slightly over the course of the week, due to review of a lesson or an unforeseen time restraint, but they are pretty accurate.

Correct Papers

Please check your child’s expandable folder on Fridays for their corrected papers from the week. After I correct papers and enter them into my grade book they are placed in a folder. One of the classroom jobs is to take the papers from that folder and sort them into the student mail boxes. On Fridays, students bring those papers home. If you have any questions about the papers, please don’t be afraid to ask.

Typing Help

Mr. Hintz has a SMART Board in his classroom. If you don’t know what that is, imagine a white board that you can write on digitally and import images that can be manipulated on the screen with your finger. That’s a very entry level description of what a SMART Board can do.

That SMART Board is a wonderful tool to have in the classroom that makes lessons visual and engages students. One subject that Mr. Hintz uses the SMART Board in regularly is English. He types up sentences from the book into a program. Then he or the students can cross off words, underlines and circle words, depending on what lesson is being taught that day.

Typing 10-20 sentences for two English classes, four days a week does take a little time. If you would be willing to help type sentences, please speak with Mr. Hintz. He can loan you a book to take home. Sentences can be typed at home in your free time and emailed to Mr. Hintz when you are finished. Thanks!

Spelling City

Spelling City is a great website to study spelling words. I have the units all typed up on my teacher account. You can go to my list by typing or clicking www.spellingcity.com/mrhintz. The website will teach the words to the students and play several different games to help memorize them. It’s a lot of fun and students will learn their words too. If you would like to help type word lists that aren’t already published on the site, please speak with Mr. Hintz.

Extra Credit Binders

Each 4th and 5th grader has an extra credit binder. Twenty-six extra credit worksheets will be added to these binders each quarter. The worksheets will be awarded 2-5 extra credit points based on the difficulty of the worksheet and how well the student did on it. The extra credit points can be applied to any subject that has a grade that is lower than an A.

Spelling

Each week we cover a new unit in our Spelling book. On Monday, August 22, we will be studying Unit 1. Students will be given a pretest on Monday. The words they get wrong on this pretest will be given to them again on Friday. Students were reminded today to take their spelling books home this weekend, so they could study their words in preparation for the pretest on Monday. In addition to the spelling test, students will be work on pages in the book to learn the definitions of the words and increase their vocabulary. These pages are assigned on Monday and due on Friday.

2011-2012 School Year

Welcome to the new school year; I’m looking forward to it. Thanks for checking out our classroom webpage. Please check back often to read new and important posts.