Announcements:
We have the read-a-thon on Monday. Students may dress up as their favorite literary character (no pop culture please). Please send you child school with a flashlight and their favorite book (or two)! Monday is also the last day to enjoy the beautiful book fair!
Winter dress code will start Monday, November 14. Students will need to wear pants, or tights under their skirts.
There will be no homework on Monday, October 31 (you can take a sigh of relief!).
We will begin reading Boxcar Children next week, if you have not already, please send it in with your student!
Thank you to all of you that signed up to help me next week! I really appreciate it!
This week we measured and measured and measured some more! Here are some adorable pictures:
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| Parachutes in P.E. are just too much fun! |
Here is a look at our learning this week:
Language arts: With Halloween and the Read-a-thon on Monday, we will learn spelling words in class on Monday but we will not assign spelling word homework for Monday night. We will do the spelling word homework in class on Tuesday. Students will still be assessed on those words on Friday. In literature this week we will start reading Boxcar Children. I am so excited to embark on another literature adventure with the students! In grammar, we will learn about common and proper nouns, and work then into sentences to make our writing even more beautiful and interesting!
Math: We will continue our unit on measurement this week, really focusing on comparing all the units we have learned. Please keep an eye on your child while they are working at home. When worksheets show objects that do not start at the beginning of the ruler - the students are getting very confused (i.e. the pencil that starts at the 3in line and goes to the 10in line the pencil is 7inches long, but the majority of students will say that the pencil is 10 inches long). We will wrap up this unit on measurement on Friday!
Science: Our water cycle unit will continue with the study of clouds, groundwater, and run-off. We will do another fun experiment and continue to record observations and new vocabulary words in our science notebooks. Ask you sweet scientist about our experiment with soil, rocks, and moss (and how AWFUL it smelled :] )
History: We will continue our study of India. Reviewing everything we have learned about the two main religions in India (Hinduism and Buddhism). A review guide will go home on Tuesday, and the test will be on Friday! We will start our next unit on China on Friday!
Thanks for reading the whole thing! Here is a of Chief, because I am a shameless dog mom.
