Weekly Update

Writing/Spelling

This past week we finished our first writing unit!  On Friday, we celebrated our realistic fiction stories.  Students gave group members awards such as "Leadership with Leads," "Dynamite Dialogue," and "Creative Characters."  The Spelling Test will be Friday, 10/9.  

Reading

In reading groups, we are starting to read about ecosystems to add to our science studies.  

Math

This past week in Chapter 3, we reviewed strategies in remembering our multiplication and division fact families.  Multiplication is repeated addition and division is repeated subtraction.  We also reviewed the properties of multiplication.  Finally, we focused on identifying key words in word problems such as "times as many."  This week we will learn the order of operations as well as factors and multiples.  It is very important that students study their multiplication facts at home!

Many students have completed the "Addition & Subtraction" ALEKS pie piece!  Great job, students!  Remember, your child can log on to ALEKS at home.  Usernames and passwords are on students' login cards.  

Science

This past week in Science we started our Biome Quilt Project, in which each student researches a biome to find out more about its climate, plants and animals, and location.  Students have Monday in class to work on them, and then they are due Tuesday 10/6.  Extra credit activities/practice activities can be found on the online textbook.  Students' usernames and passwords can be found on the login cards in the front of their binders.   The link to the online textbook can be found by clicking here.  After logging in, students click on "To Do" in the right-hand corner of the home page.  Then, the assigned activities will appear.  Click on the activity to complete.   After finishing an activity, click on the "I'm Done" button next to the activity.  

Field Trip

Other Important Info.  

• To find the Reflection Journal prompts that were assigned this week, as well as old reflection journal prompts, click here. 
• As a reminder, current grades can be viewed using SIS.  Grades are updated weekly.  October 16th marks the end of first quarter.  
• Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on Monday, October 26th and Wednesday, October 28th.  To sign up for a conference, you will receive a link via email to access SignUpGenius.  
• The Long Leaders after school group is looking for members!  Applications can be picked up in the main office and are due by October 9th.