Parents,
Here's a message from Kemp:
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Read Across America Week-
Kemp is Anchored in a Good Book
We are celebrating Read Across America Week with our annual Dr. Seuss Events. Students are participating in special activities in the media center, daily trivia contests, as well as our annual Book Swap. See below for more details!
Anchored in a Good Book
Friday, May 6 is our annual book Swap! Click on the link below to learn more! ALl students should bring a "gently used" book to swap! All students in grades 1-5 should bring a CHAPTER book on their reading level. Kindergarten students can bring books on their reading level (picture or chapter). See the flyer below for more information. If you would like to volunteer, click the link below to sign up!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4dacaf2e5-book
Parent Flyer K.pdf
Parent Flyer 1-5.pdf
Dress-Up Days
Monday, March 2nd – Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss – Wear a crazy hat
Tuesday, March 3rd – Read aboard the Kemp Ship – Wear nautical wear
Wednesday, March 4th – Wacky Wednesday – Mismatch Clothes!
Thursday, March 5th – Get lost in a good book – Wear your Camouflage
Friday, March 6th – Anchor in a Good Book – Wear your PJs
Cissi Kale, Assistant Principal
Kemp Elementary School
From our class:
We're getting into "crunchtime" with school. Testing is not too far off (I'll give details when I have them). I've spoken to the class quite a bit about the importance of letting me know if they don't fully understand something. Whatever the subject, I can help them if they let me know. I told them to tell you if they felt embarrassed telling me so I could help. So, if they tell you they're not getting something, please let me know. I go over things in class that I see, but if I don't have an indicator in class, I may not realize they're struggling.
In Reading, we're starting Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff. Great book for details and imagery.
For Writing, we're continuing to focus on details in our writing and developing the idea. I'm also having them work on parts of speech review and conventions. In all of 5th, we've noticed that capitalization is an area we need to improve.
Math, we're working on line plots this week. The kids have shown that they have a good handle on this, so we should be able to move on after this week.
Social Studies has us finishing our WWII unit tomorrow with a unit test. The snow days threw us off badly here. We spent some extra time in class completing projects and going over lessons, so we should all be caught up. Next up is the "Cold War to 1975" unit.
In Science, we're starting the "Classification of Living Organisms" unit this week.
I gave the kids another spelling benchmark this past week. I should have them in their final spelling sort groups by the end of the week. I hope to see a lot of growth obviously. The goal is to be in the Syllables and Affixes late stage by the end of 5th (~sort 40 on, then into the Derivational stage).
I encourage all students to perform error analysis on the tests I return. For math tests, they must correct the problems on another page and explain what went wrong and how they fix it. I give ½ credit for every one they work out. I only have a few students doing this, but it's a great way to earn back points as well as understand their mistakes. The analysis is always due the day after a test is given back.
Please let me know if you have any questions,
Shane Brazile
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