Weekly Updates 10/24-10/26

NEWS/EVENTS

• Our Parent Teacher Conference sign up is live! Please visit www.SignUpGenius.com/go/4090B4DACA82FABFF2-fall to schedule an appointment.
• This Friday October 28th is Family Friday! The theme of this month's session is visiting math centers to reach our math goals. The kids will teach you how to play a game from a center that has helped them review/prepare for the post assessment.
• Tuesday 11/8 is a non- attendance day for students (Election Day).
• Friday 11/11 Is Veterans Day (no school)
• Next Thursday 11/3 is a half day. Dismissal is at 11:50 sharp. We will have third grade play practice all morning- book bags are not necessary that day.

CURRICULUM

Reading- This week we are launching Mystery Reading with our students! Today we are launching with a real world mystery. We will take a look at how the presentation of evidence helps us grow ideas about our stories.

Writing- This week we are launching our next writing unit- informational writing! Students will select a nonfiction topic start to develop a table of contents covering all subcategories of their expertise. Then, they write long within that sub-topic.

**Most students have finished publishing their Narrative pieces. If they have not, I told them it could be a HOP option. I would like all work returned by Friday.

**We are celebrating the end of their narrative unit with a 2 part session on Friday. We are reviewing and complimenting each other's work AND decorating their writing and reading notebooks. I will send an email about this later.

Math- Friday all math groups are taking the post assessment for unit #1. On Monday we are launching the next unit- multiplication and division of times tables 0-9. 

Social Studies- This week we are exploring different ways to take notes about various Maps, and will work on a performance task involving map reading skills.