Hi,
We had an eventful Red Ribbon Week! We wore clothing to represent our mottos for each day and learned about the importance of making good choices especially when it comes to drugs and alcohol. We also wrote essays about being drug free for an essay contest. Students from our class won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the essay contest! Jody won 1st place for her essay called, Sock it to Drugs. Colton won 2nd place for his essay called, Team up Against Drugs. Alexa's essay, Say Peace Out to Drugs, won third place. We were all so proud of our awesome writers! Congratulations!
Harvest Festival
Tonight is our Harvest Festival. We will be having fun playing games, jumping in inflatables, and having fun. Our Forest Creek Service Club will be giving out treats and accepting donations for UNICEF. Go to the UNICEF website for games, information, and activites. If you collect any UNICEF donations, please return the orange box on Monday. We will be counting them and getting the money ready to send off. Our school-wide goal is $500. We'll let you know how we do. Thanks for your support of UNICEF and of our PTA through the Harvest Festival.
Reading
This week in reading, we learned about free verse and lyrical poems. We read lots of different poetry books and classified them as free verse or lyrical. Sharing poems aloud is always fun and we did a bunch of that this week as well. We also read some non-fiction articles and expository text and used the text features to help with comprehension. We learned the difference between standard subtitles and inferential subtitles. Standard subtitles tell us exactly what that section will be about however inferential subtitles give us a hint in a clever way and we need to use our background knowledge and text clues to infer the topic of that section. Next week we will be reading more expository text and doing some more work with poetry.
Writing
We published our poems this week. Poems can be tricky to write but the children used lots of sensory words and great descriptions to enhance their poetry. We experimented with line breaks and phrases also. They will be out in the hallway so enjoy! Writing our class book has taken up the rest of the week. We are writing important poems about our pen pals for our class book. The children worked on prewriting then wrote rough drafts using information from our interviews. I conferenced with each child about ways to revise and edit and they wrote their final copy on the fancy paper for the publisher. They first used pencil then wrote over it in sharpie. I will be printing photos of the children and the pen pals this weekend and we will finish up with illustrations on Monday.
Class Books-Student Treasures
I will be sending home another form from the Student Treasures Company. They are publishing our class books. If you would like to purchase a class book, send back the form with the payment ASAP. If you would not like to purchase a class book, PLEASE, send back the form with your signature stating that you saw the form. If we get all the forms returned then we will receive a free class book. The books will be back for the holidays. Let me know if you have any questions.
Cover Contest-Class Books
We need a beautiful cover for our class book. If your child would like to create a sample cover with the title and our class name on it, that would be great. The sample should be in color and it should be horizontal, not vertical. Bring in the sample by Thursday. We will be voting for our cover, and the title page on Thursday morning. Put your name on the back.
Math-Math has been fun! We have been doing some probability and statistics. Graphing, tree diagrams, etc... The kids have done well and seemed to really enjoy the activities. We also have been doing more multiplication strategies using arrays and breaking apart into smaller numbers. We completed some problem solving yesterday and I was amazed at all the cool and effective strategies that they used. It was very easy for them. They should be very proud of themselves! We will continue with more multiplication strategies to work on our computational fluency next week.
Science-We have been learning about solutions and mixtures. We will be doing some more experiments next week and then moving on to more density experiments.
Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you at the Harvest Festival. Have a safe Halloween and I'm sure everyone will be ready for a big day at school on Monday!
Thank you for sharing your children with me! Let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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