Mueller Messenger

Volume 2, Issue 6 September 24, 2010

What’s New?
Can the Tiger
September Character Trait is
It is time again to start thinking about “Canning the Tigers”. This year’s
Responsibility!!
district and community wide food drive will be held October
Individual Ownership of Actions
Weekly Quizzes &Work 11-15. Last year was such a huge success with our district schools
working together to help fill the shelves at Least of These with some
Thursday- Missouri map quiz
much needed items. In 2009, our school and community were able to
Friday ~ Math Check Up, Spelling Test,
fill almost an entire U-Haul truck with food and toiletries to assist
Editing Quiz
children and families in our Nixa community. The icing on the cake is
Daily- Reading towards 100 minutes for
that we collected more food than Ozark and thus were awarded the
the week, DLR
“Can Do” traveling trophy. Please help us earn that trophy for 2010
and fill the shelves of our local food pantry as Thanksgiving and the
Future Plans! holidays are quickly approaching.

Sept. 27-Grandparents Day

Oct. 5-Open House
Oct. 12-Fall Picture Retakes Websites of the Week
Oct. 15-Book Fair, PBS Big Event http://www.english-zone.com/reading/elefants.html
for Students http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/
Oct. 22-No School http://www.english-zone.com/reading/dolphins1.html
Reading passages with comprehension questions- use in place of your 20
minutes of reading! 
Reading Corner
Reading strategies can be used at home, and
will encourage your child to think about their
reading. Engage your child in conversations.
Congratulations to our Merit
Communicating orally is a prerequisite to
award winner this week:
understanding the written word. Encourage and
ask questions like “Why?”, “What would you
have done?”, or “Who was your favorite Katelyn Piepmeier
character?” from a book or television show.
Discussion can help all readers achieve success!
HAPPY READING!! 

What’s Coming Up?

Reading: Context Clues
Writing: 6+1 trait: Ideas, Descriptive writing piece: Secret knowledge of Grown-ups
Working With Words: too, favorite, into, governor, submarine, nighttime, doorbell, classroom, downstairs,
classmate
Prefix: sub- Suffix: -or, -ite Blend: compound words
Math: factors and multiples, probability
Social Studies: Missouri river, cities and surrounding states Quiz Thursday