Dates to Remember:
Thursday, October 25 - Early Dismissal 11:00
October 29 & October 30 Parent Teacher Conferences
Wednesday, October 31 - Halloween Party 1:00 parade, 1:30 Party. Students should bring their costumes to change into.
Monday, Nov. 5 - No School/Parent/Teacher conferences
Tuesday, Nov. 6 - No School Teacher Institute
Math - In math this week, we will begin a unit on multiplication and division. The students will understand that multiplication is repeated addition and division is repeated subtraction. They will recognize the relationship between multiplication and division. On Wednesday, we will begin a program called multiplication in 7 days. The students will bring home facts that they will be responsible for learning. We are asking parents to help their child learn these facts. After practicing the facts, please sign the sheet and return it to school with your child. They will take a test in math the next day to determine if they have mastered the facts. A grade will be taken on each of these tests. Another note will come home notifying you of the facts they mastered and or need to still practice.
Spelling - This will be a review unit. There will be no pretest this week. There will be a test on Friday on all 30 words. The students will all be responsible for completing the workbooks pages for the week pages 87-89.
Reading - Together we will write a response to the story, because of Winn Dixie. The students will use the their own ideas and text clues to help them answer a question about the story. We are having our Celebration of Knowledge party on Friday. The permission slips have gone home for the Movie Because of Winn Dixie. We will have a party just as they did in the story. Our menu: Egg Salad Sandwiches, "Dump Punch", Pickles and "Littmus Lozenges". The students will decide on the theme.
This week we will also read the story of The Parcel Post Kid, by Michael O. Tunnel. This piece is a nonfiction story set in 1914, which tells the tale of a young girl whose parents mail her to her grandmother because it is cheaper than paying her train fare. While reading the story, students will be reviewing the strategies and skills that we have studied so far this year, with particular emphasis on predicting and making inferences
Science In science this week, the students will create posters showing their knowledge of the five classes invertebrates.
Social Studies - The students will continue to learn about the resources of the Northeast Region. There will be a test on Friday of this week over the Northeast Region. Chapter 4. The students should study:
all vocabulary, and all sheets in their folder:
know how Niagara Falls was formed and its importance to the area
know the mountain ranges that are part of the Appalachian Mountains
largest of the Finger Lakes and understand the importance of this lake to the grapes that are grown around it
difference between the Maine Coast line and the New Jersey Coast Line.
problems that challenge Chesapeake Bay and some of the ways they have tried to solve the problem.
resources of the Northeast Region and what part of the region they come from
We will have resource day on Wednesday of this week. We will have a feast of cranberries, grapes, and pancakes with maple syrup, and crab sticks - products that come from resources of the Northeast.
