This Thursday at 10:00 our school will be
participating in a drill to practice evacuating the school to our designated
off site safe area. Our evacuation site
is Chets Creek Church and students will walk from the school to their building,
be seated in designated areas for a short period of time, and then walk back to
the school. The drill should take no
longer than one hour from start to finish.
During this time we will not be able to check students in or out and
there will be no one at the school to answer the phone. Please make arrangements accordingly. Thank you for supporting us as we work to
ensure that your children are safe.
Readers’ Workshop
Our work empathizing with characters is taking a slight shift this
week. Previously, our focus was
“becoming” the character, creating mental movies and connecting emotionally to
characters. While this is, and will
always be important, we are now working to grow ideas and theories. Our work begins by recognizing that a
character’s actions are a window into the sort of person he or she is. With our work in Second Step, we have
developed our ‘social intelligence’ that basically means the ability to read
people well, to glean what they are thinking and feeling. We are applying these skills to the
characters in our books.
Students will receive their new BINGO board and response deadlines
this week. We will work to review
Reading BINGO expectations and introduce new response options this week.
Writers’ Workshop
This week, we will continue
our use of the ‘story mountain’ template to organize and plan out our story’s structure. This tool will help us to introduce the
characters and setting, slowly build suspense toward a climax, and then work
towards a resolution. Ask your child how
their story planning is going. Students
are welcome to bring their writing journal home to share their progress.
Reminders
Please send in bags of individually packaged candy for our Fall
Carnival! Also, we are still looking for
parent volunteers for our carnival booth, the Soccer Kick. Please let us know if you are available to
work a shift! We appreciate your support!
Skills
There will be no
spelling or skills test this week.
Math
We are continuing our unit about
multiplication and division, called Equal
Groups. One way your child has
explored multiplication is by skip counting.
You can continue to build on this work by asking questions such as the
following: What number would we land on
if we counted by 4’s and everyone in our family said one number? How many people would have counted by 3’s to
reach 27? Students are developing an
understanding that we use multiplication to combine a number of equal groups
and that we use division to split a quantity into equal groups. Ask your child the following question: There
are 4 spiders. If each spider has 8
legs, how many legs are there?
They will have a Math quiz on things that
come in groups on Tuesday, October 29th. They can review workbook pages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6,
8 and 9 to prepare.
Science
We are concluding our study of matter and
how it can be described. Students should
know that properties of matter, such as mass, volume, length, and temperature
can be measured and compared using tools.
Matter is anything that takes up space and has mass. Properties of matter include shape, size,
color, texture, and hardness. Three
states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas.
Matter changes states through heating and cooling. Water melts, freezes, boils, evaporates, and
condenses. The students should review
workbook pages 99-103, 105-107, and 109-113 to prepare for the end of unit
assessment on Thursday, October 31st.
Social Studies
There will be no Social Studies blue sheet
or quiz this week.
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