Hi,
This was Celebrate Freedom Week! We learned a little about the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, The Constitution-Preamble, Articles, Bill of Rights, and Amendments. The book, America: A Patriotic Primer, was read and discussed. We compared the Pledge of Allegiance to the Pledge to the Texas Flag. The Schoolhouse Rock Preamble song was sung several times this week as well as state song, Texas, Our Texas. We watched Brainpop videos about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Thomas Jefferson. To celebrate Constitution Day (September 17) we read a book called Bartholomew Cubbins and the 500 Hats to show why the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is important and what could happen if they didn't exist. We also listened to an interview on the Scholastic Site of two children interviewing President Obama about the importance of the Constitution. Drawing pictures of "Freedom" was fun as well.
Thank you to all the students who came to our first official FCE Service Club meeting. Our new project is collecting HEB and Walmart gift cards for fire victims in Smithville. We will continue to collect them through next Wednesday. Thank you to those who have already donated. Our next Service Club meeting is on Tuesday, September 28. All 4th and 5th graders are welcome.
Reading: We read books by Patricia Polacco and will be reading her autobiography on Monday to show how she used stories from her life as topics in her picture books. Next week, we will practice more reading strategies and will be examining some biographies.
Writing: We are getting ready to begin revising and editing our first personal narratives. We worked on drafting some leads and will be working on endings next week as well. We will write our drafts into draft books which will help us to organize our stories into paragraphs. We will be conferencing and revising a lot next week. It will be wonderful!
Math: Going to the computer lab to use population numbers to graph was very cool. We also began looking at arrays and practicing multiplication concepts this week. We will continue to review addition and subtraction with regrouping in problem solving as well as more strategies for multiplication.
Social Studies: We completed a huge project this week. We made poster sized maps of Texas and used jewels to mark cities, yarn to mark rivers, and pom poms to represent resources and products in Texas. We did these projects in cooperative groups which was a bit challenging for some but the maps look magnificent. Come and see them in our hallway! Next week we will be learning about matter in science.
Education Go Get it Week!-The week of September 26-30 is week Education Go Get it Week. Be sure to go to the Efolder on the FCE website to print out a banner for your child to decorate with their favorite college. We will be hanging these up.
Dates to Remember:
Wednesday, September 21-Last day to send in Walmart and HEB gift cards for fire victims
Tuesday, September 27-Service Club Meeting-2:45-4:00pm
Monday, October 10=Student Holiday
Tuesday, October 11=PTA Meeting 6:30pm
Wednesday, October 12=Fall Individual photos
Monday October 24-Friday, October 28=Red Ribbon Week
Have a wonderful weekend! Thank you for all your support. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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