October 13th - October 17th
Remember Monday, October 13th is Columbus Day and there will be no school. Please plan accordingly.
Halloween:
The Halloween parade and party will be on October 31st.
Please keep in mind the following guidelines when helping your child pick out a Halloween costume:
1. We only have 15 minutes for costume changes. Please make sure your child can change into his/her costume easily and by themselves. If the costume can be worn over their clothes, then both the time to change and the chances of losing any clothes is minimized.
2. If the costume involves make up, please apply it before your child comes to school. If you send your child in with make up, then your child has to be able to apply it themselves.
3. Please do not send any weapons (guns, swords, etc.) as part of the costume. Save those for trick-or-treating.
4. We will not have time to change back into our clothes for dismissal. Your child will wear their costume home.
On Thursday, October 16th there will be a book fair and taffy apple sale. If you would like to volunteer to help at the book fair place sign up using the link below.
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/
The Eighth Week of 2014 at School:
Science: This week we will begin the study of chapter 9 on the water cycle.
Social Studies: Students will have the option to take the hemisphere quiz on Wednesday, October 15th or Thursday, October 16th. Then we will begin the study of Downers Grove.
Spelling: This week we will study list 8. There will be a pretest on Tuesday, October 14th and a final test on Friday, October 17th.
Reading: This week we will continue our Daily 5 program of guided reading groups, listen to reading, word work, work on writing, and read to self. Students will continue reading The One and Only Ivan. We will read Night of the Pufflings. Students will write an expended reading response related to the story. We will discuss how this book relates to the story Two Days in May. In addition, we will continue studying a word or two a day. On Friday students will be tested on the four words we will have studied Tuesday-Thursday.
English: We are going to work on descriptive writing with a persuasive flare as we prepare to write a haunted house story. The students will try to convince others to buy their haunted house!
Math: Students should complete their topic 2 practice test by Tuesday, October 14th. There will be a topic 2 test on Wednesday, October 15th. Then we will begin the study of topic 3 on using place value to add and subtract.
Things to Remember:
Monday 10/13: There is no school today.
Wednesday 10/15: There will be a topic 2 math test. Students have the option to take their hemisphere quiz.
Thursday 10/16: The book fair is tonight. Students have the option to take their hemisphere quiz.
Friday 10/17: There will be a spelling test and a vocabulary quiz.
