Friday, October 4th
QUICK REMINDERS:
Friday, October 11th- Jog-a-Thon (12:45-1:30)
Monday, October 14th-Teacher Professional Development Day-No School for Students
Wednesday, October 23rd and Thursday, October 24th Parent Teacher Conferences
Please check your child’s Friday folder about the upcoming Jog-A-Thon.
The online sign up for parent-teacher conferences should be available to you on Monday, October 7th. Conferences are scheduled for Wednesday, October 23rd and Thursday, October 24th. Thank you in advance for signing up. I am looking forward to sharing your child's progress and setting some goals for this year. If for some reason these dates do not work for your schedule, please let me know so we can arrange another time to meet. It is important that I communicate with all my families during conference time. Your child is welcome to come to the conference.
Our first field trip to the zoo has been scheduled for Thursday, October 24th. This trip will be a great extension for our current life cycles science unit. We hope to send out a Revtrack link that can be used to sign the permission slip, express interest in chaperoning, and pay the field trip fee. If you would like to join us for this field trip and have completed your background check, please check your schedule and let us know via the Revtrack link that you would like to join us. Thank you! The fee for this trip will be $15. This will cover a class we will take with zoo staff and the bus fee. As always, if you have financial difficulty, please contact Julie Cutshall or Stacey Blicker in the office.
We will continue to investigate growth mindset throughout the year. I have added a sheet of growth mindset questions to the back cover of your child’s Friday folder. These questions can help shift us toward a growth mindset and can be a helpful guide when you are supporting your child with their homework and connecting with them about their day. Here are just a few examples from the sheet:
- What made you think/work hard today?
- What would you do differently next time to make things work better?
- What strategy can you try?
- Did you work as hard as you could have?
- Did you ask for help if you needed it?
We started our second chapter in math; Multiplication and Division with 6s, 7s, 8s and Multiplying with Multiples of 10. Please continue to support your child with nightly multiplication and division math fact practice. This practice is imperative for fact memorization.
We finished reading a text unit about Sharing Our World With Animals during our interactive read aloud time. Students also started to use their Reader’s Notebooks to keep track of the books they are reading and to write their thoughts about their reading.
This week we worked on writing five sentence paragraphs and dug into the details of writing a powerful topic sentence. Next week, we will practice writing three relevant details with transition words and a strong conclusion sentence.During our word study lessons this week, we spent time exploring how reference tools, such as dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries, use ABC order to organize words. Students practiced putting words in ABC order and using dictionaries to define words.
Science:
We started our life cycles unit. This week we explored the characteristics of living, nonliving, and dead things. We also dissected pea seeds and identified the seed coat, embryo, and cotyledon. Next week, students will plant pea seeds and begin observing the life cycle stages.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Aisha Galt
