Important Dates and A Peek At The Week

Important Dates and A Peek At the Week

Happy Friday!!!

Next week is an A week.

Library Schedule

Tuesday A Week (1 hour)

Friday B Week (30 minutes)

Important Information About School Pictures:
Fall pictures will be taken Tuesday, October 29th.  This will be a day for individual pictures only; a whole-class picture will be taken in the Spring.   

·                     If possible, please order your child's pictures online.  It's the fastest, easiest, and most convenient way to order your child's pictures.  If you order online, you do not need to send anything to school with your child on Picture Day!

·                     If you are not ordering online, please fill out the payment envelope, enclose your payment, and send it to school on picture day.  Your payment envelope must include your child's name, my name, your "look" (or background) selection, your package selection, and your payment.

·                     Picture purchase is optional.

FALL PARTY- Our classroom party will be on Thursday, October 31st from 11:00-12:15.  (No Costumes) 

Please remember to turn in your $20 to the room parents to help cover costs for parties throughout the year.

Veteran's Day:
Please read the following message from our school office regarding Veteran's Day:

"Pinebrook Elementary students and staff would like to honor our Veterans during our annual Veterans Day Celebration that is being held on Monday, November 11, 2019. If you, a family member or neighbor are a Veteran please join us for this special celebration. All are welcome to attend!  This year, Veterans will not be asked to speak to a classroom of students. We invite you to come, relax, and allow us to honor you.
Schedule:
8:00-8:30 Breakfast in the library
8:30-9:15 Celebration in the gymnasium."

Turkey of the Year:

Turkey of the Year voting begins next week and will continue for the next few Fridays! Your child must read to vote for the staff member he/she would like to see come to school dressed in a turkey suit.  One hour of reading equals one vote. Each Friday, please sign and return that week's voting slip, which came home in yesterday's Thursday folder.  If you lost the voting slips, please write a note to indicate how many hours your child read during the previous week, sign it, and send it to school on Friday.  

Native American Performance:  

November 19th at 8:30am

60 Minutes of Reflex Math is switching to 60 Minutes of Dreambox Starting NOVEMBER 1st

The DreamBox Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ program provides individualized instruction for every student, adapts lessons and pacing based on each student’s unique needs. As students work on math problems DreamBox captures, analyzes, and responds to every decision a student makes. DreamBox goes beyond tracking whether a student’s answer was right or wrong and assesses each student on around 60 different behaviors, including the amount of time it takes to solve a problem, the number of hints used, and the strategies they use to construct the answer to a problem.

The continuous assessment guides students through their math development and determines their optimal learning zone, which is where a student is continually challenged enough to stay interested but not too challenged to become frustrated. DreamBox is designed around the ideal of a personal math teacher for each student, with infinite time and infinite patience.

Test Dates:

November 8th - Math Unit 3 Test (addition and subtraction strategies)

Important Dates:

October 28 - No School for Students (Staff Development)
October 29 - Fall Picture Day
October 31 - Monday Schedule
October 31 - Classroom Fall Party 11:00-12:15

November 4 - No School for Students (Conference/Planning Day)
November 11th - Report cards online (ParentVue)
November 11th - Veteran's Day Celebration 8:30am
November 11th - PTA Meeting 7PM
November 18th-November 22nd - American Education Week
November 19th - Parent Coffee (Meet Your School Counselors) 8:30am
November 19th - 2nd Grade Native American Performance 8:30am
November 22nd - Wear Navy to support your Pinebrook School Spirit
November 27th - November 29th Thanksgiving Break (No School)

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:
* Reading:  We will learn strategies to solve unknown words and/or tricky words.  
* Writing:  We will write a nonfiction piece. We will continue to focus on capitalization and punctuation, and beginning, middle, end. 

* Math:  We continue to work on computation and estimation strategies to solve basic addition and subtraction facts.

* Health - We will learn about fire safety.