Be on the Lookout for…
- No folders today. Look for a very full one coming home next week!
- Upcoming teacher workdays are Mon, October 13th and Mon, October 20th. There is no school for students on those days.
- As you may know, this month is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Students are already reading books from countries around the world and we will dive deeper into different cultures and persons of interest. Many have really dove into learning Spanish on DuoLingo as well! We always have an end of quarter reading celebration for students and I’d like to bring some fiesta vibes to it! If you are willing to contribute an item to make this a reality, I would really appreciate it. Please visit this Amazon link (the party items are at the top of this list). Please send these in by Mon, Oct 27th. Thank you! word-fiesta
- 1st quarter conferences are coming soon. Please mark your calendar for the week of October 20th. A signup will go home next week.
This week in Literacy:
Students will begin developing goals for their own Overcoming Challenges paragraph. We will read “More Than Anything” to see yet another example of people overcoming learning challenges and the importance of books and literacy in children’s lives.
Thank you for ensuring your child reads at LEAST 10 minutes a day at home. You can write their minutes at the bottom of agendas next to the day of the week.
This week in Math:
- We are working in Unit 3, which is stories with Addition and Subtraction. This unit always proves to be tricky for students. Please view the parent guide to help you assist your child and understand the various addition and subtraction lingo.There are some cheat sheets in agendas. Please keep those in agendas so they can be used at school and at home during unit 3 which focuses on a variety of addition and subtraction of methods. We do teach regrouping as a strategy this year (yay, finally the way you learned growing up), but it is alongside the methods they have been taught previously to ensure core understanding. Some of these may NOT be familiar to you as parents so it is VERY important to use the example coming home from what students did that day. Some very helpful parent links to what we are doing can be found here: Place Value Addition Show All Totals/Partial Sums Addition on a # Line Place Value Subtraction Subtraction on a Number Line
This quarter in Science: We are studying the States of Matter and how states can change from one to another.
