Happy Terrific Tuesday

Great day today in Room 6.  We had a practice fire drill along with a lockdown drill.  For the most part, students did great with a few exceptions of talking while we were supposed to be walking outside quietly to our safe location.  So these students lost $ for that today as this is a huge issue for safety.  Hopefully next time they will do what is expected.  Please visit with your child about emergency drills to review with them the importance of them.  Thank you.

Math today was a great day as we learned 7 new math vocabulary terms.  One of them being digits.  Ask your child what the 10 digits are and then what the difference between digits and numbers are.  If they can tell you, write digits on a paper for free money.
Then we made our place value charts that go up into the billions period.  Yes, we will be writing very large numbers this year.  Also ask them how many digits make up a period.  If they can tell you, write period down for free money.

For reading today, we started our Lead 21 placement test.  We will finish it tomorrow and then I will be able to get our small reading groups assigned.

We read the book called "How to be a Bucket Filler" today.  Now we are all ready to be bucket fillers rather than bucket dippers.  Have a great discussion about the difference and how your child is going to work on being a BUCKET FILLER!!!!

Spelling-Unit 1 word list went home today.  Start studying for Friday's assessment.

Montana History-we found out when Montana's birthday is.  Again if they can tell you, write it on the paper along with what number state we are.  Also we have a student in here whose birthday is on the same day.  HMMMM-who was it?

Science fun-today students started their illustrations of what they think a scientist looks like, what they where, and where they work along with tools they use.  We are going to share these tomorrow.  Then we did a fun experiment to introduce the "scientific process".  Ask your child what we experimented with and what the outcome was.  I think we have some pretty good taste testers in here or should I say good pop drinkers!!!!
Purple sheets came home today with your child regarding honor choir for boys/girls.  If your child is interested, fill them out and send them back to school with your child by Friday.
Also coming home today was an invite to the PTA sponsored movie on Friday, September 5th.  It is from 6-8 and the best part is it is FREE!!!!
Also was a green paper with websites for you to view to stay connected with PTA happenings.  Put this in a safe place for reference.
Have a great night.