Weekly Update 11.5.19

By carrievaughan In News & Updates On November 5, 2019

Be on the Lookout for…

• Wow! 1 quarter down and 3 to go! I’m so proud of all the growth and learning that has already taken place this year. Our class is truly #owlsome and we have a lot of fun things ahead!
• Students are taking the COGAT tests on Nov 4, 5 and 6th this week. Results will be shared with you as I receive them.
• Today students participated in a Cookie Voting activity in celebration of Election Day. Ask them about their voted sticker and how this process worked!
• Picture makeup Day is tomorrow. Please send students with money or returned Lifetouch pictures ASAP!
• Report cards will come home this Friday 11/8. Please sign and return the envelope. word-report card
• *The dates of the Book Fair are Monday, November 4-Wednesday, November 13.
  *The Family Night for the Book Fair is Tuesday, November 5 from 5:30-7:30. There is also a Pastries for Parent/Grandparents event from 7:45-9:00 on *Friday, November 8.

   

  The Preview and Purchase days for our class will be during our specials time. Students will bring home a book fair “Wishlist” to note items they are interested in on Tuesday, Nov 5th/

  We will also be having Spirit Week Themed dress for the duration of the Book Fair as well. Here is the schedule:
  11/6 Dress to impress/future career day
  11/7 Hall/Neighborhoot Color Day- ORANGE
  11/8 Oakview Spirit Day
  11/12 Red, White, and Blue Day
  11/13 PJ Day

   

This week in Literacy:

Tomorrow, students will begin reading an informational text called “The Athabascans: Old and New Ways” to identify text features and main ideas. Students will read and reread to answer surface level and deeper thinking questions about their reading. This sets a lot of great background knowledge for our next chapter book.

This week in Math:

Last week, students took the NCCheckIn test for math on all 1st quarter objectives. Results will be shared with you soon.

Students are coming back to multiplication starting tomorrow. We are reviewing the strategies used in multiplication (Number line, repeated addition, skip counting, arrays, and equal groups drawings) and will also cover unknowns and the PROPERTIES for multiplication (commutative, distributive, and associative). We will continue to solve MULTI STEP addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through number lines, arrays, visual models, and more!  Multiplication/division will be the MAJOR focus on 2nd quarter. Memorization of facts is not the goal (YET…) rather, I want to ensure students know when and WHY multiplication should be used. There are tons of great resources for this skill- please check some out here in this amazing math review resource organized by skill.

This quarter in Science: