Newsletter

Dates to Remember:

Reading/Math Logs due on Monday.
Homework packet due on Monday.
Spelling/word study test on Friday.
Thursday, October 3-Math test on Multiplication/Division strategies
Thursday, October 3-Writing Club-Mrs. Arnold's room, 2:45-3:45

Donate clothing, jeans, jackets, and books for Round Rock Serving Center. Boxes are outside the office. Thank you for supporting our FCE Service Club, PTA, and our community.


Hi,



We had our first Pen Pal visit today and it was wonderful! Our pen pals were so happy to be with your children and the kids were respectful, kind, and engaged. It was amazing to see them interviewing, chatting, and playing games together. The pen pals stayed about 20 minutes longer than was planned because they were all working so well together. Our next visit is scheduled for October 11 from 9:30-10:30 in the library. We would love to have you come and see our students in action.


Thank you to all the dads who were able to come to our classroom this morning for our Dad's Day. We had fun creating aluminum foil boats and testing them out to see which design could hold the most pennies. Thanks again and feel free to come and spend time in our classroom at other times as well. We would love to have you.


Read about our week!


Reading-We read an article on Food Allergies in Time For Kids and talked about text features and the organization of non-fiction or expository text. We will continue reading non-fiction this week as well as continue reading, discussing, and responding to our book club books.


Writing- We are gathering entries for personal essays. We compared the characteristics of a personal narrative and a personal essay. We talked about big ideas like friends and watched a video of the unique friendship between Bella the dog and Tarra the elephant at a Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. We will be writing about what we notice and observe and then reflect on what the observation or noticing made us realize, wonder, or think. As always we will be writing with in complete sentences with capital letters at the beginning of our sentences and punctuation at the end. Thank you for keeping your child accountable for these conventions.



Math-In math, we explored multiplication and division strategies. We talked about fact families and the how multiplication and division are related. We played games and solved problems. The children made arrays out of graph paper to represent candy boxes. They made all possible arrays for 24 candies and then wrote a letter to explain which box would be best and why. Math vocabulary has also been a hot topic. Dividend, divisor, quotient, factor, and product are all words that we practice each day. We will reviewing on Monday for our test on Thursday.


Science-The study of matter is our focus. We did an investigation using straws and water. The water had food coloring and different amounts of water and made layers according to the density of the water when put in the straw with a pipette or eye dropper. We also experimented with our reading buddies and made layers using oil, water, and corn syrup. We will continue with matter topics next week.


Social Studies-Texas map posters were made in small groups. The kids traced the shape of Texas and divided it into regions. Then added pom-poms, yarn, and jewels to represent products, resources, rivers, and cities. They made a map key or legend and a compass rose as well. We will soon be talking about the Native Americans in early Texas.


Thank you for your continued support. As always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!


Sincerely,
Pam