Weekly Update 10.16.24
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On October 15, 2024
Be on the Lookout for…
- Folders will come home today with lots of student work samples. Please review as able.
- Upcoming teacher workdays are Fri, Nov 1st (Happy Diwali) , Tues Nov 11th (Happy Election Day) and Mon, Nov 11th (Happy Veterans Day). There is no school for students on those days.
- Please click here for really important information regarding the Fall Festival coming up soon! Thank you Mrs. Lord for making it easy to get involved and help make this fun event a huge success.
- About Fall pictures- you do not have an access code, they can access pictures using the student’s ID #. Also, the correct site to review pictures is https://my.photoday.com/s/LTBW/475405. This site information was provided on the flyers that were sent home with students prior to picture day.
- As you may know, this next 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. We always have an end of quarter reading celebration 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 28th. Thank you!
- 1st quarter report cards come home Friday, November 8th. I will hold parent teacher conferences that week. You can choose virtual or in person. Please sign up for those conferences here. word-conferencetime
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.
Let’s plan to meet up on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27th at the AMC movie theatre to see The Wild Robot! Times TBD but looking for late afternoon. This is optional, and siblings, etc are welcome. If anyone has a relationship with the movie theatre or wants to keep an eye out for times that day when they are released please let me know!
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.
