We had a busy week!
Mentor Visit
We had our first mentor visit on Tuesday. Our mentors are residents at The Court at Round Rock Assistive Living Facility. We had seven eight mentors come to Forest Creek and we met them in the library. We interviewed them and shared stories, then played games together. We all had a wonderful time. We will see our mentors again in December. You are always welcome to come and visit with our mentors!
Author Visit
Thank you, Tara Ross, for sharing your book, We Elect a President: The Story of the Electoral College. All of the fourth graders enjoyed learning more about the process of electing our president.
Virtual Author Visit
There were technical difficulties, so we were unable to have our virtual author visit with Cathy Camper who wrote Lowriders in Space. We plan to watch a video of the author visit soon.
Donation Drive Winners
Our class won the Cash for Coyotes Donation Drive for week 4! Thank you to everyone who donated to help our school. We will have a pajama wearing day on Monday, October 31 to celebrate your generosity. Thank you again for all your support.
40 Book Challenge-Monthly Challenge
Our monthly challenge for Sept/Oct was to read the first book (or a book) in a series. Many of the students have already turned in notecards and will be having lunch in the classroom on Monday, Oct. 31. Be sure that your child is filling out notecards responding to books that he/she finishes reading so that the books will count for the Monthly Challenge and the 40 Book Challenge! Be sure that your child is reading everyday for at least 20 minutes and recording on the reading log.
Early Release on Wednesday at 12:00. Kona Ice will be here also.
Veteran's Day Program
We have begun planning a tribute to Veterans for the morning of November 11th. Please invite any veterans you know to Forest Creek to have breakfast with the student(s) they know. The cafeteria will serve cinnamon rolls, fruit and milk or juice from 7:15-7:30 a.m. Please help us prepare for breakfast by completing this form to provide an accurate number of those eating. There is no charge for our special guests.
We will be having two patriotic programs to honor our Veterans on November 11th - one at 8:15 a.m. for grades Kinder-2nd and another one at 9:00 a.m. You may attend one or both.
Thank you for helping us teach our students the meaning of this holiday and why it is so important to honor those who have served our country.
Veteran’s Photo Needed
We look forward to recognizing these special men and women who have contributed so much for our country through a slideshow presentation.Please send a photo of your special Veteran to Kelly_Erickson@roundrockisd.org. Please include the Veteran’s name and unit or job title during their service. Veterans do not need to be present for our program to be included in our slideshow.
Red Ribbon Week
Please help your children celebrate and honor Red Ribbon Week (October 24th-28th) by participating in the fun theme days we will be having all week! Coyotes are PROUD to be DRUG FREE! Please see the attached flyer for more information.
Monday: Team up against drugs-Wear your favorite team jersey
Tuesday: Coyotes give drugs the boot-Wear boots
Wednesday: It's crazy to do drugs-Wear clothes in a crazy way.
Thursday: Coyotes are too smart to do drugs-Wear your picture day clothes
Friday: So, peace out to drugs-Wear tie dye
FCE Service Club Toy Drive
The Service Club is having a toy drive to benefit Dell Children's Hospital and to bring awareness to OMS. OMS (opsocolonus Myoclonus Syndrome) is a rare childhood disease that has no cure. Go to: http://www.omslifefoundation.org/?q=en to learn more about OMS.
Our goal is 200 new toys. Please bring the new toys to the box by the office by November 30.
If you donate toys, you will put a smile on an ill child's face. Thank you for your generosity.
Read about our week:
Reading: In reading, we worked on summarizing by jotting notes on a sticky note after reading each section and checking to see if our summary matches the subtitle. We also worked on context clues and responding to and discussing non-fiction text with our reading partners. We will continue reading non-fiction or expository text this week and will begin book club groups the following week.
Writing: We wrote poems about ourselves and some of the children submitted their poems as entries in the Reflections Program. We also are continuing to revise and edit our expository writing or opinion writing as Google documents. We are using a student friendly checklist to help us with our independent revisions. We will publish our expository pieces this week and will share and celebrate our writing as a class. Next we will begin writing poetry.
Social Studies: We had our test on Texas Tribes last week and have begun to learn about explorers in Texas. We learned about Cabeza de Vaca and read a piece of his journal as a primary source. Ask your child about the painting of Cabeza de Vaca performing the first recorded surgery in North America? We are talking about the impact of the explorers on the Native People and the world. We will continue learning about explorers this week.
Grammar and spelling: In grammar, we practiced combining sentences using fanboys or coordinating conjunctions. (For, And, But, Or, Yet, So) We will continue practicing combining sentences next week. In spelling we spelled plurals by changing the f to v and adding es. (shelf-shelves) We will continue with irregular plurals this week. (foot-feet)
Dates to Remember:
Monday, Oct. 24- Wear your team jersey. Writing Club 2:50-3:50 in library, Running Club begins
Tuesday, Oct. 25-Wear boots
Wednesday, Oct. 26-Wear crazy clothes-Early Release at 12, Kona Ice at FCE
Thursday, Oct.27-Dress for photos-Fall Picture Day
Friday, Oct. 28-Wear tie dye-Homework packets due,Reading Response Letter due, Spelling test, Turn in Reading Logs as you finish them
Monday, Oct. 31- Wear Pajamas for Donation Drive Winning of week 4, Monthly Challenge Lunch, Service Club 2:50-3:50 in rm 512
Tuesday, Nov. 1-PTA General Meeting 9am, Senior Choir Concert 6:30-7:15
Wednesday, Nov. 2-Senior Choir Concert-1:55-2:30
Thursday, Nov. 3-Report Cards go home
Friday, Nov. 4-Homework packets due,Reading Response Letter due, Spelling test, Turn in Reading Logs as you finish them, FCE Spirit Day! Wear green and purple.
Monday, Nov. 7- College Shirt Day, Writing Club 2:50-3:50 in library
Friday, Nov. 11-Veteran's Day Program at 9:00 for 3rd-5th. Homework packets due,Reading Response Letter due, Spelling test, Turn in Reading Logs as you finish them, FCE Spirit Day! Wear green and purple.
Monday, Nov. 14-College Shirt Day, NO SERViCE CLUB TODAY
Friday, Nov. 18-Boogie O'Rama at 12:05, Homework packets due,Reading Response Letter due, Spelling test, Turn in Reading Logs as you finish them, FCE Spirit Day! Wear green and purple.
No school-Nov. 21-Nov. 25-Thanksgiving Break
Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for sharing your child with me.
Sincerely,
Pam
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