October 14th - October 18th

October 14th - October 18th 

Upcoming Events

  

October 18th ~ End of first quarter

October 17th-19th ~ ABC Sale

October 24th ~ Parent-Teacher Conferences from 12:00-8:00*

October 25th ~ Parent-Teacher Conferences from 7:30-12:00*

Thursday, October 31st ~ Halloween Class Parties at 2:30

Tuesday, November 5th - Wednesday, November 6th ~ Book Fair

Friday, November 8th ~ No School, Professional Development for Teachers

* Almost everyone has signed up for conferences however if you have not or need to make a change the links are listed below.

To reserve a time slot with Mrs. Nash please visit her sign-up link,
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E4BAFAE28A46-parentteacher1

 

To reserve a time slot with Miss Laird please visit her sign-up link, 
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4FADAB2BA6F94-parent

Academics

In language arts, we continued to work on our creative writing assignments. Both classes have been working on developing their ideas for their stories. Both classes have also started writing their rough drafts. The students have been encouraged and expected to use lots of detail and strong adjectives throughout their stories. We will continue to work on rough drafts and begin editing next week. Also next week we will be taking a break from Wordly Wise because we will be starting Word Masters on Monday.

In reading, both classes continued to read the books they chose. Both classes focused on solving the meaning of unfamiliar words within a text by using context clues and identifying the elements within a story map.We will continue to focus on identifying story elements as we read through each book. In Mrs. Nash's class students reading Hatchet have read through chapter 6 of the novel, and students reading Running Out of Time have read through chapter 7. In Miss Laird's class the students read through Chapter 3 in both Hatchet and Running Out of Time.

This week in social studies, we spent some time learning how to use latitude and longitude to find locations of places around the world. We played latitude and longitude bingo, and students became very good at finding map coordinates! We also began our next unit over exploration and colonization by learning about how people in both Europe and Asia began learning about other parts of the world. Next week we will continue this unit by focusing on the groups who began exploring North America. 

In science, we began our unit on space and started with the study of stars, specifically the sun. While we are working on space and the stars the students are also working very hard on their science expo projects at home. They have all gotten their topic approved by me and most have gotten approval from parents. Next week they will be given the template to begin the next step and work on writing up the lab report.

Space unit learning objectives

-          Students will understand that the motion of an object can be describes and        measured.

-          Students will know that natural events are often predictable and logical.

-          Students will be able to identify structures ancient people built to show the importance of the movements of the sun, moon, and stars for their culture.

-          Students know that natural events are often predictable and logical.

-          Students will be able describe the characteristics of stars, including the sun.

-          Students will know that in addition to the Sun, there are many more starts that are far away.

-          Students will know the orbit of the Earth is slightly elliptical and the Earth is closed to the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere in winter.

-          Students will understand the tilt of the earth on its own axis as it rotates and revolves around the Sun causes changes in seasons, length of day, and energy available.