Dear Parents,
Students really enjoyed the Culver’s Lunch today – thank you to our awesome PSO! Also, a reminder of Fall Fest this Sunday 12-4pm. Have a great weekend!
ELA News:
- Completed our personal narrative essays
- Practiced writing a conclusion to “wrap up” a story
- Began listening to an audiobook titled “Six Minute Podcast”
- Next week, we will study our Week 4 spelling words and begin reading the fable “The Miller, His Son, and a Donkey”
Social Studies News:
- Read Time for Kids: Saving a Species and took a quiz on the material
- Began taking notes on the reading, “What Were the British Colonies in America Like in the 1770s?”
- Next week, we will begin reviewing what we’ve learned about the colonies to prepare for our test on Tuesday, 10/26
Shin Math News:
- Completed study of Module 1: Ratios and Unit Rates
- Begin Module 2: Arithmetic Operations Including Division of Fractions
- Construct problems involving division of factions
- Continue use of visual models to represent quotient of whole numbers and fractions
- Understand relationship between divisor, dividend, and quotient
Psimaras Math News:
- Passed back Unit 1 tests and collected for redo correction points
- Introduced standard long division strategy
- Compared money model to fractions and decimals
- Will add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators using clock models
Science News:
- Learned about the endangered Rusty-Patched Bumblebee
- Saw evidence of the declined species since 2000 in the midwest
- Discussed better food choices, an initiative for October’s Green Challenge
- Will read and discuss the “World is a Village of 100 People” to better understand global differences and their impact on the environment
Upcoming Dates:
10/ 17/2021 – Fall Fest
10/20/2021 – Early Release-Teacher In-service
10/21, 2021 – Joey FineRhyme Assembly (weather permitting), more info coming
10/26/2021 – Board Meeting
10/29/2021 – Halloween Parties (More details to follow)