February 29, 2016

Happy Monday!
     I hope that everyone had a great vacation and that you are all well rested! Today I handed out our new books for reading and we are getting ready to start a unit on the Revolutionary War. This week we will take a close look at the 13 Colonies and see what life was like that during the colonial time.

Tonight's Homework:

• Math:
• Homelink 4.12
• Spelling:
• Write each misspelled word from your pretest 3 times each
• pg. 128
• Reading:
• Fuzzy Guppies: 
• Read Chapter 1
• Optional: Vocabulary
• Prevail- pg. 6
• Treason- pg. 6
• Agitators- pg. 7
• Rebellious- pg. 8
• Read 20 mintutes

February 11, 2016

Here's tonight's homework!!!

Math:

• Homelink 4.7

Spelling:

• pgs. 120-121

Reading:

• Read for 20 minutes

Writing:

• Finish editing your personal narratives

Class Happenings

Hello Everyone!!

          We have been busy the past few weeks with finishing up a few of our units! The students have been working really hard with their personal narratives. This week we will be wrapping up with our final edits and will be sharing them next week. We have also finished our medieval unit in reading. As a final project, the students have been working in small groups to create a movie trailer for the book that they read. These will be shared on the school’s library site!! I will let you know when the final product is complete and uploaded so you can take a look!!

          We have a couple of new things going on as LSS and in our classroom. The school is now on Twitter and so is our classroom! You can follow the school at @ExeterLSS and the classroom is @MrsJenkins5LSS. Our class Twitter page is a work in progress. I will occasionally share some of the things we are working on during the day or week and any upcoming events! I’m also thinking about having the students Tweet from their point of view things that are happening in the classroom!! So, please look for us and other teachers from LSS on Twitter!!!

          On Monday we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day with a fun Valentine’s Day STEM Activity and will be exchanging Valentine’s Cards during snack. Please make sure that your child has a Valentine for each of the students in the class.  If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call of email me!

          Thanks,

Mrs. Jenkins

Book Trailer Resources

Resources for Creating Book Trailers

Image Resources	Audio Resources
Flickr (Creative Commons search) http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons   Pics4Learning.com http://www.pics4learning.com   Imagebase http://www.imagebase.net http://pirc-photogallery.com/   http://openphoto.net/ http://pics4leearning.com/ http://morguefile.com/archive/	Vimeo Music Store (includes free music) http://vimeo.com/musicstore Purple Planet Royalty Free Music http://www.purple-planet.com Incompetech Royalty Free Music http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
Video Resources	Copyright Resources
Vimeo: Creative Commons Licensed Videos http://vimeo.com/creativecommons	U.S. Copyright Office: Fair Use Exception http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org

February 9, 2016

Happy Tuesday Everyone,

      I hope that you all enjoyed your long weekend and got a chance to play in the snow! With the recent snow days, we haven't been able to put a lot of thought into a Valentine's Day party. This morning we decided to celebrate on Monday, February 15th! We will do a Valentine's STEM Activity and exchange Valentine's during snack. So please make sure that you bring in a Valentine for each of your classmates.
    Today in class we started our Book Trailers for our Medieval Unit in reading. What are some things that made your book stand out? What are some things you think a reader would want to know about this book? Tomorrow we will continue writing a script for our trailers.
   As most of you know Lincoln Street School is now on Twitter and so is our classroom! Please follow us at @MrsJenkins5LSS .

Tonight's Homework:

Spelling: pg. 116-117
Reading: 20 minutes
Writing: Please revise your personal narrative then send me an email that it's all set for me to check over
Extra: Don't forget t-shirt money for Music in Our Schools and the Jump Rope for Heart sheets

New Hampshire Primary Voting Day

Today kids, you will be taking part in a mock Primary Vote!! Here are the links we will need to get started!!!

https://newsela.com/join/#/ZYP26M

https://newsela.com/polls/students-new-hampshire-2016

http://election.scholastic.com/election-central/meet-the-candidates/

http://election.scholastic.com/election-central/road-to-the-white-house/