Conference Week!

It was great to see everyone at conferences this week. I enjoyed having the opportunity to meet with you and talk about your child!

During Reading this week we continued to look closely at the characters in the stories we read and develop theories about them. Students also learned how to find a debatable position in the books they read and how to construct a debate with reasons and evidence from the text that supports the position they are taking. It was a lot of fun to hear their debates!

In Writing Workshop we revised our drafts making sure we have stretched out the heart of the story, and we worked on editing our work for complete sentences, paragraphs, punctuation and capital letters. We will be writing our final copies next week!

This week in math we started Topic 3: Using Strategies and Properties to Multiply by 1 digit numbers. It is imperative that your child has instant recall of their basic math facts (this was a 3rd grade skill). Practice at home is a must! This week we worked on using the Distributive Property to multiply numbers. For example: 4 x 1,237= 4 x(1,000)+(200)+(30)+(7)
(4×1,000)+(4×200)=(4×30)+(4×7)
4,000+800+120+28
=4,948

We will be moving toward the shortcut method (the way you and I learned) next week. Please don’t jump your child ahead, as it is important that they learn the steps in each method.

In Science we have finished up our first Science unit. I hope to grade the tests this weekend or early next week. Our new science Unit will be Organisms in Their Environment.

Ask your child about today’s Be Nice. assembly. They played their BE A Superhero song, on their recorders, for the entire school! WE talked about how we can all be everyday superheroes.

A huge thank you to all of the families that have donated items for our raffle! Thank YOU!

Important Dates:

Monday, October 31 – Halloween Parade and Party – an email was sent about donations and volunteers
Wednesday, November 23 – Friday, November 25 No School – Thanksgiving Break

*Change in Halloween parade route- we will parade around our bus loop and pick up lane and not down River, Prospect and South Streets.

Here are a few pictures from our Be Nice Assembly.
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