The Week Ahead

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Sure was a surprise waking up to snow on the ground this morning. Yikes-it is too early for that. Glad it melted today. This is going to be another busy week. In reading, we finished Unit 1 on heritage so will test out of unit 1 and start on Unit 3. I am moving to Unit 3 because the stories go right along with the Northeast which is the region we are studying in Social Studies. I will be sending home 2 practice maps on Monday for your child to start studying the NE states and capitals. They not only have to know them, but the location as well. Also in reading this week, we are going to try and finish up our read-a-loud of "There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom". We will be taking an adventure into the opposite gender bathrooms and then doing a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast the two. This is always quite a fun adventure for them to see what the other bathroom is like. In Math, we are continuing with algebraic equations. We did a quick assessment practice of multiplication with multiplication wheels on Friday and I noticed that some of the students have forgotten some of their multiplication facts. It is going to be very important that they take some time on a nightly basis to practice them as we will be going into multiplying 2 & 3 digit numbers x 1 digit and 2 digit x 2 digit numbers and if they struggle with their fact memorization, this will be a difficult concept for them to master. So please take some time nightly to practice those for success here at school on the higher level concepts. In Science, we finished wildfires on Friday and will continue our weather unit by studying and doing a fun project to learn the water cycle. We have a fun song and a cool writing activity to go with it. The writing activity is going to be a homework project done in 4 parts and I will need your help editing your child's writing as it is nearly impossible for me to edit 22 of them for 4 days. There is also a fun art project that goes with it and these will be done at home also. The reason for that is because I find that we get the best creativity that way and they don't all look the same as they would if done here at school. More on this project as it is assigned. I will be sending home some construction paper on Monday for your child to make a poster for our bake sale that will be on Wednesday, October 31st. I hope you will be able to help us out by baking some treats. Thank you. As you can see from the picture that Emily is our student of the week. We loved hearing all about her and we now know that her favorite subject is Montana History and that she hopes to be a volleyball & soccer coach someday. Thank you for sharing, Emily. We didn't do a team building activity this week, but instead used the time to finish our wildfire unit by doing a fun partner activity. They got to work together and practice the trait of cooperation. Have a great rest of the weekend.