September 30th- October 4th

Upcoming Events

   

Tuesday, October 8th ~ Sentences Test in Language Arts

Friday, October 11th ~ First Quarter Book Report Due

Monday, October 14th ~ No School, Professional Development for teachers

October 17th-19th ~ ABC Sale


October 18th ~ End of 1st Quarter, Spirit Day


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

Today we had a beautiful day for the buddy run!! The fifth graders were awesome with their buddies and clearly showed lots of school spirit (fifth grade won the spirit award and will be able to celebrate with a doughnut breakfast with Sporting Kansas City's, Jimmy Nielsen). Here are a few pictures we captured from the event!

Academics
Both reading classes continued to read their class novels and practiced their reading strategies as they read. Miss Laird's class read through chapter 22 of Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix. They will finish the book on Monday and have a test over the book on Thursday October 10th. They end of next week the students will have a book preview and be asked to choose between two books for their next novel study. This week in reading we took a test over the novel Holes and then enjoyed the movie version of the book. Next week, students will select one of two books for our next novel study. Some students will read Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix and others will read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.

In Language Arts both classes completed week seven of Wordly Wise. We have finished our work on sentences this week. We focused this week on sentence fragments as well as run-on sentences. Students worked to be able to identity when is sentence is a fragment or run-one based on their knowledge of subjects and predicates. They have also been reviewing all of the skills they learned in the sentence unit in preparation for the sentence test next Tuesday, October 8th. The students can continue to practice at home using the Live Binder. Again this can be accessed if they click on the link to the right that reads "LiveBinder for Grammar," they can type in the access code grammar and access the website. Finally, students can use their language arts book to help them review. Pages 68-71 and pages 74-85 contain additional practice for each part of the unit. 

  

In social studies, students began working on a group project. After analyzing three different theories about who discovered America, groups began developing a documentary to support one of the three theories. Some groups are arguing that Christopher Columbus discovered America, some are arguing that it was the Vikings, and others are arguing that it was the Chinese. Students will finish filming their documentaries in class at the beginning of next week and we will share video presentations on Thursday and Friday.

This week in science we spent the week preparing for the first unit test over the scientific method. Today the students completed their test. Next week we will spend time going over the test and introducing our new unit about space. The students will also will have access to the text book on line and we through how to do this process in class. They will be given directions to access the textbook as well as their password to keep in their binders.