Congratulations to Isabella Helms and Joshua Garnier for reaching their goals in AR!!! Way to Read! Keep it up!

Playoff Game

The PIKE Patriots will be playing at Bessemer Academy tomorrow (November 7th) at 7:00 pm in the first round of the AISA AAA playoffs.  Tickets for this game are available in the school office . Adult tickets are $7.00 and student tickets are $5.00. All pre-sold tickets proceeds will stay at PLA so please purchase them at school rather than the gate!  If you don't plan on attending tomorrow night's game, you can follow the action live on Twitter by following @pikepatriots (www.twitter.com/pikepatriots) 

Thanks and  Go PIKE!

Decodable and AR Books

Parents, I find that some children are not putting their storybooks in their folders.  There is no excuse for this.  I remind them every day to get out their AR book and their storybook.  I watch them put these on their desks. I do not watch them put these in their folders.  I don't have time and it is their responsibility.  If your child comes home without these two important books, please note it on his/her homework.  The little storybooks review the new spellings that I introduce each day and are an important part of homework.  Also, the children cannot do AR reading at school if they don't bring this book.  Please be sure these books are packed in backpacks. Thank you so much for all you do to help the children with the learning process

AR STAR

Congratulations to Carter Nelson for reaching his goal in AR! Way to read, Carter!

High Frequency Word List

Here is a updated list of the High Frequency Words we will have learned by the end of this week. Have your child read these words out loud to you, if they struggle with any of these words and do not know them automatically put a star by it or write it down. Then have them practice the words they are having trouble with. These words are words they encounter every time they read. If they know these words they will be able to read better and more fluently!

a                                               he                              said
am                                            help                           see
and                                           her                             six
as                                             him                             that
ask                                            his                             the
at                                              I                                 then
big                                            if                                there
call                                           in                                this
can                                           is                                 to
did                                            it                                up
down                                        its                               was
for                                            jump                           went
get                                            little                            what
girl                                           look                             when
got                                            of                                 will
had                                            on                                with
has                                           out
have                                         red

Parent Newsletter Week of Nov. 3-7

Spelling Words: chimp, check, chicken, champ, chart, hatch, pitch, fetch, watch, snatch, why, down, of

High Frequency Words: little, when, with, went, will

Sounds/Spellings: /ar/ ar, /m/ __mb, /w/ w__, /er/ er, ir, ur

Vocabulary: owe, prove, complain, inspected

Comprehension Skills: Main Idea and Details, Making Connections, Visualizing, Predicting, Summarizing, Reality and Fantasy, Making Inferences 

Language Arts:  Review sentence structure, punctuation, typing in bold and italic,  nouns, pronouns, adjectives, helping verbs, action verbs, and possessive nouns
Introduce Declarative Sentences and writing process

Math: Introduction to the ruler (inches and foot), how to use a ruler and why we measure things, even and odd numbers, telling time, months of the year. We will also review all concepts learned: counting to 150, penny, nickel, and dime, combining cents, addition and subtraction families 1-7.

Math Test on Thursday
Reading and Spelling Test Friday

Graded Papers

I sent home all graded papers from the First Nine Weeks, keep these at home...do not return to school. I will be starting a new folder for the graded papers from this nine weeks and will be sending those home at the end of the nine weeks.

Graded papers from last week (math, spelling, and reading test will be going home tomorrow). Please sign these papers and send them back to school.

Thanks!