Hi,
We had a fun and busy week.
Book Fair will be held in the library from Monday (even though we have conferences and no classes) to Friday. It will be open late on Tuesday evening and Darth Vadar will be there. Bring your change because we are collecting coins for Coats for Kids in the library. Team HOWL, a relay for life team of faculty and staff of FCE, will also be having a bake sale on Tuesday evening. Come and enjoy some treats and buy some books!
Wear college clothing on Mondays and green, purple, or Forest Creek Elementary shirts on Friday.
Wear ORANGE on Wednesday to show unity for Bullying Prevention Month.
Art Fundraiser forms and artwork was in your child's Thursday folders. Your child's artwork can make beautiful gifts and keepsakes. It also can make cute and memorable holiday presents for family members.
Phil Bildner is coming! A former teacher and children's author is coming to our school on Monday, October 15. He has been at our school before and the fourth graders will get to spend an hour with him in a writing workshop. Mr. Bildner is very entertaining and informative. The kids are going to love meeting and working with him. There is an opportunity to pre-order some of his books and he will sign them for you. For every book that you pre-order, your child will get their name in a drawing for lunch with Mr. Bildner on Monday. (lunch from home or school but in the library with ten other kids and the author.) An order form will be coming home on Tuesday and you can check out his website at http://philbildner.com/.
Our tarantula is with us for another week and is beginning to come out from under his log and see us a bit more. We are reading expository or nonfiction text about spiders and also a fiction story about spiders. We will be comparing the two genres with a similar topic on Tuesday.
Our class has a garden box and planted some small vegetable plants on Friday. We will be planting some seeds on Tuesday. Comparing the plants and the seeds will be interesting as well as weeding, watering, and harvesting our vegetables. Thank you to Mrs. McCulloch for helping us.
Read about our week:
Reading-I read a book called Encounter to the class on Friday and didn't show them the illustrations. They had to make inferences and predictions based on the text and their background knowledge. The book is especially interesting because it is about the landing of Christopher Columbus in San Salvador but it is from a native boy's point of view. Ask your child about it.
Writing-Almost everyone finished taking their personal narrative from their draft book and rewriting it on notebook paper. Our next step is to edit. (add paragraphs, correct capitalization, spelling, and punctuation) Then the writing of our final copy will begin! We are planning to finish with these narratives on Tuesday and Wednesday and then will begin writing essays.
Math-We have been doing very well working with multiplication and division concepts and applying them to problem solving situations. We will continue sharing strategies for multiplication and division and will be working with patterns this week. Algebra-here we come!
Science-Matter experiments were fun this week. We classified items as magnetic/non-magnetic, sink/float, solid/liquid/gas, and according to other properties of the student's choice. Using three unidentified substances in film canisters, we measured and recorded their mass using a triple beam balance then shook each container and described what we heard and felt. We measured the volume of the substance by putting 400 ml of water in a beaker, then dropping the container into the beaker and measuring the water level after the water was displaced. We then subtracted the two water levels to determine the approximate volume. We also used water that was red, blue, and green with food coloring and placed drops of the water into a thin graduated cylinder to see which water was the most dense. We had to try different sequences of water colors to determine the order of the density so that we could see layers of liquid. The water had different densities because I added a lot of salt into one of the containers, some salt in the other, and no salt in the third container. We learned that liquid can have different densities.We will be conducting some more explorations with matter and changes in matter this week.
Social Studies-This week we will begin learning about Early Texans. We will think about the landforms, resources, and climate of each region and the tribes that lived there.
Dates to Remember:
Book fair-all week, Tuesday evening late hours
Monday, October 8- Conferences/No school students
Wednesday, October 10-WEAR ORANGE-Anti-bullying
Thursday, October 11-Service Club meeting
Friday, October 12-Art Fundraiser orders due
Monday, October 15-Phil Bildner visits!
Wednesday, October 17-Pen Pals Visit-9:30 in library
Monday, October 22-October 26-Red Ribbon Week
Tuesday, October 23-Individual Picture Day
Wednesday, October 24-Early Release Day-Kona Ice at school
Friday, October 26-Fire Department assembly
Friday, November 9-10:00am Groovy-O-Rama
Have a great weekend! See you at your child's conference!
Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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