Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is an exciting day at Lakeview, we have our PBIS assembly. The teachers will be playing in a volleyball game against the girl's volleyball team. After the staff game is over, the girl's team will play the boy's football team. Then in the final game the volleyball team will play a team of students made up of our Spartan Star winners. I look forward to the all of the fun!

A Peek at Next Week

Next week we are finishing up Unit 14 in our Language! program. We will be done reading about artists, and when we come back from Thanksgiving break we will begin our unit on heroes.

Pen-Pals

This year my students are pen-pals with Mrs. Nino's class at Prairieview. One of our goals is to practice letter writing. The Lakeview students will also practice being good role-models, while Mrs. Nino's 4th and 5th grade class will become accustomed to coming to Lakeview. So far our students have exchanged two letters and they met for the first time today. Mrs. Nino's class came to Lakeview where they got a tour of the school, and students interviewed each other over rice-crispies and juice. Overall I think it was a great experience!

Art

This week we started Unit 14 in our Language! series. The content of all of our readings has been centered around art. We are reading about the evolution of art, how to become an artist, and about different artists. While we are reading out loud we are focusing on reading with expression and using proper inflection.

PAWS

PAWS will start on Monday of next week!

PAWS

Positive Actions With Support

PAWS is a PBIS Tier 2 program designed to help small groups of students meet the Lakeview

school-wide expectations, Be Respectful, Be Responsible, and Be Safe.

Role of the PAWS teachers:

• Connect with PAWS students during Homebase to see how they are and make sure

they have the supplies they need for the day.

• Make sure that PAWS students have all of their assignments written down by Study

Hall.

• See PAWS students briefly at the end of the day to assess the students’ days and get

their parent form to take home.

Role of Students in PAWS:

• Check in with their PAWS teacher in the morning.

• Bring supplies needed for 1st-5th period to Homebase

• Take their DPR to each class.

• Give the DPR to their teachers at the beginning of class.

• Act Respectfully, Responsibly and Safely during class.

• See their teachers at the end of each class for a brief behavior evaluation.

• Write down their assignments in their assignment notebooks in their classes.

• Check out with their PAWS teacher at the end of 8th period.

• Bring the parent signature form home and get it signed.

• Bring the signed parent form back to school the following day.

Role of all Teachers:

• Monitor the behavior of PAWS students in class.

• Give them a score on the DPR each day based on the Lakeview expectations, Be Respectful,

Be Responsible (on time to class, brings supplies to class, homework completion,

etc), Be Safe.

• Briefly meet with the student at the end of class to explain the scores you gave them.

Students should not be handed their DRP without having their scores explained to

them. For example: I gave you 2 points for being responsible because you had your

homework done, but you only got 1 point for being respectful because you told Johnny

that his question was stupid.”

Role of Parents:

• Try to set your child up for a good day before he/she leaves for school. Having his/her

backpack packed at night might make for a less stressful morning.

• When you and your child get home, please ask him/her how his/her day was. Ask to

see the DPR that was filled out by your child’s teachers that day. Celebrate the points

that your child earned in his/her classes. Encourage him/her in areas that need work.

• Sign the DPR and have your child pack it in his/her bag to take back to school the next

day.

Inventors

The first two months of school we have been focusing on reading non-fiction texts, since that is the majority of what we read throughout our day. We have been working on strategies that will help us read these texts more efficiently and to help us summarize them. Meanwhile our content has been about inventors. We have read about different inventions, how inventors are able to solve problems, and the different steps inventors take to come up with their product or idea. This past week we have talked about Leonardo da Vinci and how he used his creativity and drawing skills to come up with his great inventions. We will continue to talk more about Leonardo next week.

Important Days:

Sunday: Bears play in London 12pm

Monday: Kick-off to Red Ribbon Week

Thursday: Early Dismissal: School Improvement Day

Vocabulary Quiz

On Tuesday we have a vocabulary quiz in Reading. Students need to know how to spell and define 5 words that are from our Latin word roots unit.

Vocab Words:

Autograph

Belligerent

Fortress

Fragile

Proceed