Week of September 5-9

Dates to Know

9/8~Early Release @ 12:20pm *Please send a note if your child’s transportation will be different on this date.

9/22~Tiger Trek ~ Please collect donations to help support our school! J

 

U.S. Region Project & Wacky Tourist Day!

Tonight I sent home an assignment that will be due on Friday. Each child is to color and label the states for the region to which he/she is assigned. Then your child is to research (using the Internet at home). I have included a list of several websites students may use to gather information on my blog. They need at least 10 bullet points under each topic. Your child also has a highlighted topic on the graphic organizer. For this particular topic in your child’s assigned region, your child will need to make either a short PowerPoint presentation (no more than 3 slides), a handout, or a poster to support him/her when the group presents the information on Friday. Finally, to further support their learning, each child is being asked to dress as a “wacky tourist” from their region. Please just use materials from home. Nothing needs to be purchased for this.

 

Note from Mr. Beatty

Dear Families,

Starting Friday, September 2, the art room will commence weaving with yarn.  This past summer, Mr. Beatty saw a way demonstrated to keep the yarn nice and neat, and it involved using empty clear two-liter bottles for the yarn to be pulled through.

Would you consider sending in a clean, empty, intact two-liter bottle?  It doesn't need a cap, and each bottle will garner the student who brings it 20,000 points toward the art trophy.  We need approximately fifty bottles, and a second email will go out if and when we reach our limit.

Thanks a lot,

Mr. Beatty

Here’s what we’re learning this week!

7 Habits: What does it mean to be begin with the end in mind?

Reading: This week we will continue learning about metacognition or thinking about your thinking. The kids will be learning how to apply the thinking strategies to help build their comprehension when reading a text.

Writing: Our focus for writing this week is to continue exploring various types of poetry. We will try Xanadus and poems for 2 voices this week. Then we will segue into our next unit, Playing with Words, where the kids will begin learning about the various parts of speech and how they are used.

Math: During math, we will continue our unit on place value where students will learn about the relative value of place value positions, review how to read and write numbers in various forms, and learn to apply basic facts to patterns such as 8x3=24, therefore 80x30=2400. We will also begin learning to multiply large whole numbers this week.

Social Studies: During social studies, we will work on understanding regions and learning map skills.

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or email me. Have a fabulous week!