Happy Thursday!!! We are ending the week with some cold weather!! Please be sure your child comes prepared with sweatshirts and jackets. Sounds like tomorrow will be even chillier than today. We received a note from Brad Baker at the public school. In regards to any home football games: Any student found on the visitors side without administrative permission will be asked to leave the football game. Evidently some students went to the visitors side to sit during the last home game. This will not be tolerated and students will be asked to leave. Go out and support our Panthers!!!
Also, please take note of the Highlights offer in the take home folder. If you would like to order, great!! If not, please check no and send it in anyway. I get free classroom items even if all of you say no. I use these items in my room with your students. They are usually gifts or prizes I can give out. Sign it and return it! Thank you very much!!
Language Arts - This week we are reading My Librarian is a Camel. This is a nonfiction story that is sharing with us how children in remote rural areas get access to library books when they do not have libraries visit. There are 6 different countries we learn about: Canada, Peru, Kenya, Thailand, Finland, and Mongolia. It is very interesting the creative ways in which children are supplied with the opportunity to check out books. We have read stories in groups that talked about service projects or volunteering. In grammar we are talking about quotation marks, and how to use them. We have talked about quotation marks in dialogue and split quotations. Tomorrow is our end of week assessment and this on will have a skills check which a "cold" read with some questions dealing with skills we have covered. It is a little longer than the normal end of week assessment because that "cold" read is in addition to what we normally do on a Friday. Make sure your kids study their spelling and vocabulary tonight!!
Math- We are still working on Numbers and Operations in Base Ten. We have been focusing on generalizing place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers. Today we finished talking about renaming numbers. This was easy when they were drawing pictures and using models. When they started putting in word problems it looked quite a bit different for them. We will still be working on Chapter 1. The last three lessons are adding whole numbers, subtracting whole numbers, and word problems. We will then take our first chapter test. This has been a great chapter to start with. I am very pleased with the progression of our text. I really feel the students will benefit from the new series and it's relationship to the Iowa Core.
Social Studies - We are discussing natural resources right now. We are looking at how each region has a certain resource and how resources may have played an important role in how to divide the states into regions. The book also discusses conserving resources and what renewable and nonrenewable resources. Today's homework is deciding whether a resource in renewable or nonrenewable. We will be ending this chapter next week and taking a test. The test may not happen until the following week.
I would like to share that we have an S.O.S. student in our room every other day. This is a student from the high school who is participating in Students of Service. This is a required class as a senior. It is only pass or fail. The student must show up on the days they are scheduled and do work while they are here. Sometimes they will check papers, hang things on walls, take things down, make copies, read with kids, put folders together on Thursday, work in groups, etc. I try to have them do a variety of things. Our S.O.S. student is Hanna Luther. She is a St. Malachy graduate. She is also the setter for the Varsity volleyball team. Your child may want to attend a game and watch her play. We welcome Hanna to our room!!
Have a great weekend!!
God Bless,
Mrs. Sickels
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