Week of 9-8-14:

Monday 9-8-14

Language Arts 5-21

1. Begin Reading log. You should be reading for at least 20 minutes a night. Refer to your schedule in your Reading Response Journal for your due date.
2. All contracts and information forms are due on 9/9/14.
3. All books needed to be covered by TODAY! If your books are not covered, they MUST be covered by tomorrow 9/9/14.
4. Bring in The Lemonade War for Tuesday-Friday this week.
5. Weekly Letter to Ms. Stamer # 2 is due Friday, 9/12/14. Please use script and pen for this letter. DO NOT TYPE THIS WEEK'S LETTER.
6. Parents: Write an encouraging letter to your student about the 40 Book Challenge.

** You will have Computers for Cycle 1. Note - Please send in headphones, the ones in the classroom are not in good shape. Children need headphones, earbuds or over the ear devices to use for the typing program. All devices must have a 48" cord. Put them in a baggie with their name on it. Large headphones are hard to carry around

Gym occurs on Wednesday mornings. Make sure you wear your gym uniform to school to be prepared for this class. 

**Students should ALWAYS have a book to read with them in class.

Science 5-20/5-21

1. Sign Contract and bring back to class on Tuesday 9/9/14.
2. Small Brown Envelopes are due 9/9/14.
3. Create a cover for your science notebook. What does Science look like to you? Draw pictures to illustrate your ideas. This should be completed for tomorrow, 9/9/14. Be creative! Make sure it says "5th Grade Science" someone on the cover.

Science 4-18/4-19

1. Small Brown Envelopes are due 9/9/14.

Tuesday 9-9-14

Language Arts 5-21

1. Begin Reading log. You should be reading for at least 20 minutes a night. Refer to your schedule in your Reading Response Journal for your due date.
2. All contracts and information forms are due TOMORROW 9/10/14.
3. Bring in The Lemonade War for this week.
4. Create a cover for your Reading Notebook, & Reading Response Journals.
5. Identify the Elements of Plot for The Lemonade War, in your Reading Notebook (page 4).

Science 4-18/4-19

1. Sign Contract and bring back to class on Tuesday 9/10/14. (4-19 only)
2. Complete cover. Make sure it has color in it.
3. Complete Scientist picture. Include color.
   

Science 5-20/5-21

1. Make sure any illustrations are done in color for cover and scientist picture.
2. Make sure your paragraph describing your scientist is completed, also.

Wednesday 9-10-14

Language Arts 5-21

1. Scholastic News due tomorrow 9/11/14.
2. Read 20 minutes.
3. Friendly letter due Friday, 9/12/14.
4. Make sure any cover pages are colored in.
5. Please set up your Writing and Grammar notebooks, exactly like we have done with our Reading Notebooks:
   1. Leave the first page for a cover page. Include subject on the page.
   2. Create 4 pages for a Table of Contents. Use Roman numerals and label the page with "Date", "Topic" and "Page #".
   3. Number pages up until number 25.

Science 5-20

1. Make sure your ABCD phone, cover page, and scientist pictures are colored. You may also color the Safety Notes iPad.
2. Write a paragraph answering the questions about the Titanic Challenge.
3. Bring your art box tomorrow.

Science 4-18

1. Make sure your cover page and scientist pictures are colored in.
2. Bring your art box tomorrow.

Science 4-19

1. Make sure your cover page and scientist pictures are colored in.
2. Bring your art box tomorrow.

September 8, 2014

Welcome to our first full week of a new school year. I am excited for all of the fun things we will be doing in class. We will be beginning our 40 book challenge, as well as reviewing The Lemonade War. We will also take our first Benchmark Assessment on Friday. Tuesday will begin our first Cycle class which is Computers. Please make sure your student has some sort of earbuds or headphones with them for Computers. On Wednesday we will have our first Spanish class of the year and on Thursday, to remember and honor all those who died on 9/11/14, we will attend a memorial mass at 1:45pm. 

All students should have their supplies, summer reading reports, and any money handed into me by today, 9/8/14. All of their small brown envelope paperwork should be handed in by 9/9/14. Our interactive notebooks will work the best with a glue bottle, rather than glue sticks. If you could, in the next few weeks, send in your child with a small bottle of Elmer's glue, I would appreciate it. 

I look forward to a fantastic week with you all. 

-Ms. Stamer
[email protected]  

Reminders:

Scholastic Book Club forms went out on 9/4/14. There were several forms, to give our students a wide variety of choices. These orders are due 9/19/14.

**Our Class Activation Code for Scholastic Book Clubs is N2W8Z.

September 8, 2014

Welcome to a full week of school at St. John the Apostle. I am excited to get to know all of you this week. We will spend our week getting to know each other, participating in a team building activity, and begin to understand the tools used in Science class. 

All of their small brown envelope paperwork should be handed in by 9/9/14. Our interactive notebooks will work the best with a glue bottle, rather than glue sticks. If you could, in the next few weeks, send in your child with a small bottle of Elmer's glue, I would appreciate it. Students will also need highlighters to use in our workbook/textbook. 

I look forward to a fantastic week with you all.  

Ms. Stamer

Monday 9-8-14

Language Arts 5-21

1. Begin Reading log. You should be reading for at least 20 minutes a night. Refer to your schedule in your Reading Response Journal for your due date.
2. All contracts and information forms are due on 9/9/14.
3. All books needed to be covered by TODAY! If your books are not covered, they MUST be covered by tomorrow 9/9/14.
4. Bring in The Lemonade War for Tuesday-Friday this week.
5. Weekly Letter to Ms. Stamer # 2 is due Friday, 9/12/14. Please use script and pen for this letter. DO NOT TYPE THIS WEEK'S LETTER.
6. ** You will have Computers for Cycle 1. Note - Please send in headphones, the ones in the classroom are not in good shape. Children need headphones, earbuds or over the ear devices to use for the typing program. All devices must have a 48" cord. Put them in a baggie with their name on it. Large headphones are hard to carry around.
7. Gym occurs on Wednesday mornings. Make sure you wear your gym uniform to school to be prepared for this class. 

**Students should ALWAYS have a book to read with them in class.

Science 5-20/5-21

1. Sign Contract and bring back to class on Tuesday 9/9/14.
2. Small Brown Envelopes are due 9/9/14.
3. Create a cover for your science notebook. What does Science look like to you? Draw pictures to illustrate your ideas. This should be completed for tomorrow, 9/9/14. Be creative! Make sure it says \"5th Grade Science\" someone on the cover.

Science 4-18/4-19

1. Sign Contract and bring back to class on Tuesday 9/9/14.
2. Small Brown Envelopes are due 9/9/14.
3. Create a cover for your science notebook. What does Science look like to you? Draw pictures to illustrate your ideas. This should be completed for tomorrow, 9/9/14. Be creative! Make sure it says \"4th Grade Science\" somewhere on the cover. 

Welcome to Ms. Stamer's Homework Page for 4th & 5th Grade Science, as well as 5-21 Language Arts.

Week of 9-1-14

Monday 9-1-14 NO SCHOOL

Tuesday 9-2-14 NO SCHOOL

Wednesday 9-3-14 NO SCHOOL

Thursday 9-4-14 1/2 day

Language Arts 5-21

1. All small brown envelopes are due 9/9/14.
2. ALL books need to be covered, even workbooks, by 9/8/14.
3. All supplies must be in by 9/8/14.
4. Bring in your favorite book for tomorrow.
5. Write a 2-3 paragraph letter to Ms. Stamer for tomorrow.
6. Scholastic Book order due 9/19/14.

Friday 9-5-14 1/2 day

Language Arts 5-21

1. Complete Weekly Reader, including the back, for 9/11/14.
2. Summer Reading Reports are due ASAP.
3. Money is due ASAP.
4. Scholastic Book order due 9/19/14.
5. “Owl” About Me due 9/9/14.
6. All forms from Small envelope due 9/9/14.