Week of October 8-12

This week is a big one!  It’s our last week to collect donations for the Husky Hustle!

Husky Hustle

Don’t forget about the Husky Hustle coming up on October 12^th!  This is an exciting and fun fundraiser where the kids collect donations from family and friends to raise money for our school.  The money goes to sponsor them as they participate in a walking/jogging event during Related Arts on October 12^th.  Our class is off to a phenomenal start and the class who collects the most money wins an iPad for their classroom!  Please encourage and support your child in collecting money for this exciting event, but please make sure they are not going door-to-door collecting money unless it is from people they know.

Harmony Harvest

Also occurring this Friday, October 12^th is the annual Harmony Harvest!  The event takes place from 6-9pm and includes carnival games, inflatables, face painting, food and drinks.  I will be attending with my two little boys in tow!  I hope to see you there!

Harmony Harvest Auction Items

There will also be teacher auctions at the Harvest.  If you would like your child to attend Boys’ Night Out or Girls’ Night Out with myself and Mr. Tilley, please sign up at the Harvest with a classroom donation of $25.  These two events will take place after school and will include pizza, drinks, and fun activities!

Riverside, Farnsley-Moremen Landing

Please dress your child appropriately for our field trip on Thursday, October 11^th.  We will be digging in dirt to experience what it’s like to do an archeological dig and we will be outside most of the day.

Math Facts

I cannot stress enough the importance of regular math facts practice.  I still see students making mistakes in larger problems due to inaccuracy with their basic facts.  Please work with your child daily on his/her basic facts.  This can include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  Practice can be done orally, on the computer, or by writing out problems.

Upcoming Tests

Weekly Math Facts Quiz

Preposition Quiz on Wednesday

Math Test on Friday (A study guide will come home this Tuesday.)

This Week’s Learning Plan

Social Studies:  This week we will continue to study Native American cultural regions and how the natives adapted using the natural resources around them.

Math:  This week’s focus will be a review of addition, subtraction, estimation and multiplication of whole numbers and decimals.  We will also review place value a little as well as the concepts of mean, median, mode, range, maximum, and minimum which have also been incorporated into this unit.

Word Study:  We will continue to learn about prepositions and how to use them correctly this week, and we will then explore appropriate verb tense toward the end of the week.

Writing:  This week we are collecting information and drafting feature articles about famous historical people, many of which we’ve been studying over the past few weeks.

Reading:  Students will listen to stories about da Vinci and Galileo and compare and contrast the stories as they explore the accurate and fictional portrayals of these people through non-fiction and historical fiction.  The goal if for the children to see that history can be learned through fiction as long as we can track that which is accurate and that which is fictional.