Week of November 7th

Me and my adorable little duck :)

Evan's mom, Kalin, was kind enough to take some pictures of Bennett last weekend. She is my favorite photographer and I will cherish the pictures forever! Her kindness made me think of one of my all-time favorite quotes: "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

Thanks again, Kalin! 

Easton was kind enough to bring us all chocolate mummies of Halloween. So cute!

TJ brought us delicious cupcakes, too! Thanks so much, Angie! :)

Here are some pictures from our Bone Bridge STEM Challenge that we did on Halloween. 

This week in reading we will a answering the essential question: How do people make the government work? Quite fitting for election week, huh? We will be reading the stories: "Vote!", "Every Vote Counts", and "A Plan for People." We will work on the skills of rereading a text, the author's point of view, prefixes, irregular plural nouns, and possessives. The genre this week is expository texts (texts that gives us information, such as textbooks, primary and secondary sources, newspaper and magazine articles, essays and speeches). 

Are vocabulary words for the week are: 

In math, we will finish up Chapter 4, which is helping us dive deeper into multiplication. We have been making flash cards for each multiple,  so please feel free to "quiz" your child at home. If they get stuck on a problem, they should have numerous strategies to help them solve any problem: arrays, equal groups, skip counting, hoping on a number line, using repeated addition, and the Distributive Property (breaking it apart into easier problems). We should be ready to take our Chapter 4 assessment by the end of the week!

In social studies, we will continue on with our virtual field trip of Ellis Island. Ask your child what they have learned about immigrants so far!

In science, we will be building our gliders and then begin our three glider trials. We will be playing around with adding weight to our gliders, seeing if that affects how far it can fly. We will also observe how different shapes of wings and horizontal stabilizers affects how well they fly.

I will be gone on Tuesday (the 8th) and Wednesday (the 9th). Students will have Mrs. Lovelace as their Guest Teacher. I know they will be on their best behaviors and we will continue on with the learning as normal.

Also, we FINALLY earned the class compliments we were working towards since the beginning of the year. So, we will be celebrating on Friday with a pizza party! Jenna's parents (who own Carbone's) have generously agreed to donate the pizza. All you will need to do is send your child with a drink! Thanks so much, Troy and Nancy!

Thank you to everyone for taking time to come to your child's conference. These 27 kiddos are so lucky to have such involved, supportive, helpful, and loving parents. They hit the jackpot indeed!

Code Word: Pizza Party!