Monday Oct 27 and Tuesday October 28 .............. Conferences 
Wednesday Oct. 29th..............................................Field Day in afternoon (Rain Make-up Date)
Thursday Oct. 30 and Friday Oct. 31......................NO SCHOOL

 

PINK DAY: We had A LOT of Pink going on! I added a photo in that tab.

 CONFERENCES: Dates are above. Your child is welcome to participate in their conference with us!

FUNDRAISER: Tuesday is the next day to turn in the "tickets" kids have been bringing in.

CLUB TCB: I sent an email about "Taking Care of Business" last week. Responsibility is one of the most important values we can teach our kids. Students who are being responsible for homework and in-class work as well as making appropriate choices in school and on the bus will be able to go to the first Club TCB event. 

  Students are allowed 1 late homework assignment and no more. This is one for ALL classes combined. (same as in 6th-8th grade) If a student is sent to the office, has a bus issue, or has behavior issues that are frequently disruptive in any class, they will not have earned TCB. There are 3 for the year.

  * We have a Homework Hotspot. When there is homework, students come in, put in in the pocket that has their name on it (this way a no-name paper still gets counted!) and it is checked off right away on a clipboard. I then put it in my spreadsheet. I remind them in the morning and it's written on the board.

Orange Friday Folders: Please sign the yellow note in the folder so I know you have seen the notes, work, homework that is in it. Organizational habits now will truly help your child in the future. 

SNACKS: Please send a snack with your child each day. Many students are not bringing one with them and 3-4 hours since breakfast is a long time. I buy snacks for those who forget, so they won't be hungry when that happens.

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*Homework this weekend- This should be in planners and highlighted.
MATH: Lesson 15 both sides for some
                Workbook Pages 41 and 42 (Lesson 2-8) for others.

NOTE: It would be a good idea to have your child practice a couple 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication problems a few times each week.

  
Book Project Homework DUE THIS TUESDAY OCTOBER 28th. 

Your child knows there is a new book project for October and there have been repeated reminders  for them and offers of help if needed. This activity was discussed on Friday October 3rd and the the paper sent home Monday October 6th. Students were to be reading a chapter book (can't be nonfiction this time because of the assignment) in order to complete this project. 

NOVEMBER PROJECT will be sent home on Wednesday. Students will have 4 options from which to choose for this book project.

MATH:   Along with review, we have been working on multiplying decimals by powers of 10, comparing and ordering decimals, adding and subtracting decimals and problem-solving. We also began reviewing properties:

Commutative Property (4 + 9 is the same as 9 + 4) 

Associative Property- regrouping numbers in order to make the operation mental math or compute more quickly: Ex: regroup (4 x 9) x 25  to  (4 x 25) x 9

Distributive Property:4 x (9 + 6) = 4 x 9 + 4 x 6

Next week students will round decimals, take quiz 2, and begin test review. The test will be November 6 or 7. I will let you know once I see how we are progressing.

LANGUAGE ARTS 
Students have completed rough drafts and editing/revising of their compare/contrast of the middle school. Once I have conferred with them again they will be completing Final drafts by Wednesday. Students who finish before others may free write or do a project of their choice in an area of their own interest. The goal is to keep students engaged in reading and writing for our entire ELA time. Giving them some choice encourages this.
We have been practicing vocabulary strategies, making inferences, finding information from text, citing evidence to support our responses, and writing thorough responses as a group and in partners. This week students read a nonfiction article on their own and did some activities involving those strategies. Students are also having time to read their own book on their own.

SCIENCE We continued discussion about Newton's First Law of Motion and added in the Second Law of Motion. We watched some videos about this as well as performed investigations and had discussion. There will be a quiz over lessons 5-9 on Wednesday. *Note: If I feel that student need more time, I will move the quiz to the next week.

 

Spelling: We took the skill and proofreading tests Friday. This will come home Monday. Students typically have a lesson, homework page (which often gets completed in class), and a couple other review activities for spelling each week. 

There will be no spelling test this week, only review.