Who Will Their Raindrop Be?????

Tonight students are coming home with their nightly writing notebooks to start their water cycle stories. They are going to be a raindrop traveling through the water cycle. They are to write paragraph one only tonight which is the collection phase. In this paragraph they are to introduce their raindrop and tell where it is collecting. They are also to give some details about what they are doing in their collection place. They have a model of this 1st phase to use as an example to guide them through what my expectations are. They need to be creative, use good spelling, capitalization & punctuation. Parents-please please help with this process as it is almost impossible for me to go through each one everyday to correct for errors. I think this is a fun project to work on together. Tomorrow they will get the next part and another part each day this week. So make sure tonight only Part One. Also, tomorrow they will get a raindrop template where they will be creative and add fun details to make it look like their raindrop. I will have an example of Drippy to show them tomorrow. Thank you for all your help in this.
As you know today is Columbus Day. We had an HR on him and read a book. We talked about the difference in the European & Native American perspectives. If your child can tell you about the book, write Encounter in the planner.
Also, tonight I sent home the sheet they will need to get on the Xtramath practice website. It is extremely important that they do this nightly, it takes only about 3-5 minutes. I can't stress enough the importance of fact mastery. We are ready to move into multiplication real soon and so many don't have their addition/subtraction facts down yet. If your child does this practice tonight, write down what they got and write "math" in the planner for more free money.
My reading kids had a treat today-well maybe not a treat-depends how you look at it. Ask them where they went in reading today. I loved the conversations after this. :)))
This is the last week for the PTA fundraiser envelopes. Remember if every child in our class has even just one donation, our whole class gets an ice cream party. We can do it Team Hankins. You can send the envelopes anytime this week.
PE tomorrow.
Reminder that our states and capitals test is on Wednesday.
Great job today to all the kids. It was a very busy day. I can't wait to read the stories.