Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I want to thank so many of you for your thoughts and prayers for my mom! She had her surgery on Monday and they think they got everything...She has 5 days of radiation (2 times a day) and hopefully then we won't have to worry about it anymore! I will be out on Monday and the afternoon of Tuesday to help her get to appointments as well as take care of little bubbas! On Thursday, I will be on campus but we will have a substitute as I will be leading a Thinking Maps training!

I am trying very HARD to get caught up! I haven't forgotten to post a smilebox of our Princess Parker's Dragon Week!!! I hope to get that done tonight...(along with a LOT of laundry)...I'm sorry about homework last night! I will send 2 pages home tomorrow. We actually did the front page of Odd and Even today as a review for the CBA. Please let me know if there are things you need from me!! Like I said, I'm trying to stay on top of things but my mind seems to be thinking about other things!

Field trip to safety town is on Tuesday, Oct. 27th. We will be going in two shifts 10 in the morning and 9 in the afternoon. Please see your child's red folder for specific information. Safety Town has asked that the students be dress as if it were a P.E. Day. If your child is going in the morning...we will NOT be back in time for lunch...so we will eat in the classroom or have a picnic in the courtyard! Please make sure you send a sack lunch and drink with your child!!!

Thanks again for being such a fantastic group of parents! The first 9 weeks has FLOWN by!!!
Look at our writers... these stories are being "rubriced" on ideas!!!
The rubric consists of Beginner, Borrower, Experimenter, Meaning Maker and Experienced Writer. An experimenter: Uses text and art to create messages, Message is clear, Can read their own message, Creates decodable lists, lablels, notes, poems, etc..., Can talk about main ideas and details of message.

I hope to get the kids to podcast their story this week! So...you can read over them and try to figure out which one belongs to your little dragon! I am SO, SO, SO happy with our writing!!! ENJOY

"This is a tree. The tree is sad Because it doset Have anewon to tac cuar(care) of Him. Sodle (suddenly) a man tacs cuar Of the tree good. The man Gav him water to hlep him gro. The tree flad (felt) happ because he was Growig real tall."

"One day a lion drove a car thin a bare came. An the lion omost crashd in to the bare."

"The trasfomer was tring to rescyu earth. but mgtron was to prowful. the new aotowbot came. his name is bumblebee. then bumblebee deft mgtron with his Blasr ball."

"Dogs
Mol had a mom dog with 14 pupese! Thae wer coot. the nex day Mol saw 13 pupese. 1 was mising. Mol was brave to fid the 14th pupe. She lookt in th dog hows. Ther it is sed Mol. the 14th pupe was fowd. The end."

"Wons their was a turtle rase. And their was tow turtle's. A fast and a slow. the fast is me And the slow is noah. Wene I got to the finish line I went Bak to the starting line. "

"Wans ther wos a prensess that dremd that prens Josh was a frog. but wen she wowc up she so that he wos joost a prens. and Then prens Josh cam over. ow no she crys."

"One afternoon a mouse was trying to find his lunch. But there was no more cheese. The mouse is hungry. He went to anouther mouse's house to get more cheese. Then the two mice ate the cheese together."

"Oun day lorin wit to play socr but she ditt maky a gol. And her fris cam to play with her. And SHOOTING STARS wind!"

"My bruthrs KaLB JoSh and i like to resol. We gt hrt. My mom yels at me."

"1 dAy mi PoPoP uomos ran ovr my turtle. He puld the BRAKS! And Then He PicKt him uP. Then He Put him in His gofig Shoo. The we Put him in A CAJ. I Theck He is HAPPe."

"Litl girL wenT LoST. Fond the. mom."

"Ouse u pone time thare wore a old casla. it was so old knowbud nodust it. Now no pedple like it. one day a person lokt in side. He said, " hmm i love this house." The he bot it."

"Ws a catplr dremd of being in the ulimpics. He had a chans to be in the trlp jup He wun bi jupig 200 meetr He got a gold medl He flt prowd."

"One day there wos a laine. Its mame is lorine on a Wednesday the laine wos sipnin (sleeping in) a wondfl (wonderful) cav. until a big bar cam and the loaine got up and ran."

"pelre cat got Loes in a stor. I fam hm undr the Tabl. I took him hom. He wus happy."

"Wus a sckerey hows fld (filled) wit mustrs. Stay saF bey cus Mustrs are Degris. Sow Be Saf BeCus Mustrs can hrt you and Lock You up."

"Wos a pot a time there wos a dragin a Princes and a Prince. the dragin protects the Princes and the Prince. But on holuwn nit The dragin wint to tric or tryt. The prince wint With him the Princes wos ulon when the dragin and the Prince got back the Princes wos gon! sum one had takgne her."

"Ben hase 11 Kucs. Ben et oll of The Kucs in his refrijratr. Ben ast for mor Kucs! Then Ben wit to Bed."