November 16, 2009

Dates to Remember
Nov. 16 H1N1 Shot Clinic
Nov. 17 Cold Stone Creamery Night
Nov. 18 Early Release-pick up 11:40
Nov. 19 Family Literacy Night K-2 @
Barnes and Noble
Nov. 20 Town Hall Meeting
Nov. 20 Meet with Book Buddies/Wear
your Leaphart Spirit Shirt or the
Mrs. Wertz and Mrs. Sita’s Class colors.

SECOND Nov. 25-27 Fall Holiday

GRADE NEWS

What We’re Family Literacy Night

Family Literacy Night has been changed
Learning About… to all on one night-Thursday, November 19
Word Study-
Study-Throughout the year we will be
from 6:15-8:00 PM at Barnes and Noble.
working with word families and word patterns The k-2 area will be in the children’s
based on our individual strengths. section on the stage. The 3-5 area will be
in the sitting area over behind the
Math-
Math-We are finishing up Unit 3 and taking our
greeting cards. A flier will be sent home
Unit 3 test on Thursday. A review sheet will come
home to study for homework on Wednesday today giving you all the information.
night.

Writing Workshop-
Workshop-We are learning how to be
writers and taking our pieces through the writing
process-inspirations, prewriting (planning),
drafting, revising, editing and publishing.

Reading Workshop-
Workshop-We are constantly learning
new reading strategies to help us become better
readers, features of non-fiction texts, and fiction
texts.
Our Class Website
Visit our class website at
www.lex5.k12.sc.us/leaphart.cfm. We try to
Social Sciences-We
Sciences are learning about weather
keep it up to date so you can get the most
and designing kites this week. We are talking
current information.
about Thanksgiving and Our Country Long Ago.