The students have been working diligently in all curriculum areas so far this year. See what they've been working on the past two weeks:
Math:
- Math Menu is still going well with check ins each day to make sure the students know what they need
- We have worked on multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of ten
- Reinforced the decimal point moving to the right with multiplication
- Reinforced the decimal point moving to the right with division
- Practiced ten times more and 1/10th of within place value
- Reviewed our first unit
- Played TRASHKETBALL
- Took unit 1 assessment
Literacy:
- Book Clubs have continued with character problems as well as plot versus theme
- Book range from The Thing About Jellyfish to Schooled, Wringe
r, Absolutely Almost and Rules - Students should be reading nightly from their book AND keeping track of their things on sticky notes or in an electronic document
- In writing, students took a second look at their lead and reworked it using a mini-lesson on effective leads (Mystery, Dead End, Onomatopoeia, Descriptive, Question)
- Students were asked to work with literacy partners to get to the bottom of what their story is truly about ( the "SO WHAT?" of the story)
- We talked about theme vs main idea and reading to find hidden life lessons
Social Studies:
- We've visited all three worlds in depth, pre-exploration
- Push and Pull factors of exploration were discovered
- Students worked on the Venn-Doodle Gram to add these factors
- Ask your child if they thing exploration was a good or bath thing depending on who you were
- Had a flash debate about the three worlds meeting and whether or not it was a good thing
Important Information
*Remember we have conferences on 10/25 and 11/1 so those Thursdays will be early releases at 12:50.
*Our school day will end at 2:55 starting on 10/29. Also, lunch and recess have been changed to 25 minutes a piece.
*Wellness Policy can be found here. Letter
*Halloween Party will be on 10/31 starting after lunch.
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