Dates to Remember:
Monday, October 8 - No school, Columbus Day
Thursday, October 18- Book Fair 6:30-8:00
Thursday, October 25 - Early Dismissal 11:00
Week of October 29 - Parent/Teacher Conferences
Wednesday, October 31 - Halloween Parade and classroom parties 1:00-2:30
The students are working toward having a pizza party during lunch on Friday of this week. If they can collect enough Beenies on the tree for following directions and good behavior throughout the week, they will earn the party.
I will let you know on Thursday, so you will know whether to send a lunch or not.
A permission slip is also coming home for viewing the movie "How to Eat Fried Worms" which will be shown on Friday afternoon to help us celebrate our worm unit success.
Math - This week in math the students will continue to work on addition and subtraction of 3 & 4 digit numbers with regrouping. There will a quiz over this skill on Tuesday. A chapter 2 test is planned for Thursday of this week. The students should review all the skills in the chapter. Please review the sheets in their folders as well.
Spelling - The students will be working with words that have the long and short u spelling patterns. They should write their spelling words on Monday. After that, they will have a spelling page assigned each evening to be completed by the next day. There will be a test on Friday of this week. If your child has passed the pretest with 95% or better he/she will work on activities throughout the week. All spelling work should be done in cursive.
English We will begin a new unit in English. This week the students will work on using a variety of sentences in their writing. They will also work on capitalization of names of people, pets, places, and things, along with writing abbreviations correctly.
Reading - In reading this week the students will continue to read Because of Winn Dixie and review understanding author's point of view. Our new strategy this week is recognizing text structure in reading non-fiction text, and our reading skill is understanding multi-meaning words-homophones.
A Time for Kids magazine will go home this week. The students are encouraged to read the articles and discuss them with you. They will have a quiz over this on Friday.
Science- We will wrap up our worm unit with a worm race on Thursday. The information went home last week. The students are encouraged to read the requirements for the track carefully. We have gone over them as well in class. All tracks and worms are due back on Wednesday.
I will be giving a retake quiz on the scientific method on Wednesday. Now that they have worked with it for a whole week during our worm experiments, I feel that they have a better understanding of the steps.
Social Studies - We will begin our "travels" through the United States regions this week. The Northeast is the first region we will "travel" to. The students will be given a rater sheet to follow and they will fill in and color a map of the Northeast region. This will be due on Thursday, and there will be a quiz on Friday. The students should study the states and bodies of water in the Northeast. They will be given extra points for knowing the capitals of those states. Spelling does not count, but I need to be able to recognize the state written.
