Week 6!

Here's a glimpse into our week...

Student Council Speeches: All 7 of our class members who ran for student council did an amazing job!  I was truly impressed with the quality and content of speeches.  

Social Studies:

• Students looked closely at Europe pre-exploration
• Students began discussion the many similarities and differences between Europe and the Americas
• Worked in pairs to create a Venn-Doodle-Gram
• Looked briefly into Africa
• We are fully onto Africa, our final world next week

Literacy:

• Students "Dreamed the Dream" of an important moment in their life through the five senses
• Watched a music video to the song Happier to experience strong emotion in stories
• Book browsing for our first unit took place for our first book clubs
• Book clubs met to talk about a contract, schedule as well as calendar
• Fall poetry projects were completed and students took a visit to the DeLoh Cafe
• We had our first poetry slam at the DeLoh Cafe on Friday

Math:

• We worked hard on standard, expanded and word form of decimals
• Some used manipulatives to make connections
• Continued onto comparing, ordering and rounding decimals
• Powers of ten was touched upon
• Ask your child how the self guided "Math Menu" is going for them
• We played games on Friday to boost our decimal skills

Buddies:

We completed a scavenger hunt with our 2H buddies!  It was so nice to get some fresh air and to run around with our buddies!

Important!  
Students will be going outside for a photography unit in Art.  They should dress warm and wear appropriate shoes for Art next Tuesday.

Important Dates

Columbus Day 10/8

Early Release 10/25

Early Release 11/1