Mrs. G.'s Chalk Talk: October 31

Dear Families,

Here’s an update on what’s happening in our team:

October Animoto

Reminders:

November 3^rd: Election Day, no school for students

November 6^th: end of first card marking

November 12/13: Special Person Breakfast, 7:45- 9:00a.m.

November 12-20: Book Fair

November 19^th: half day of school with a 12:30 dismissal and Conferences from 1-4 and 5-7, more info to come!

November 25-29: No school for Thanksgiving Break

Halloween Party: Thank you to our Party Planners and volunteers. The party was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time! After seeing all of those fun costumes, I’m sure your child will have a fabulous weekend trick-or-treating!

Halloween Animoto

Language Arts: This week in Reading Workshop, we focused on oral and written nonfiction retellings. Your child practiced retelling a nonfiction article on jack-o-lanterns and then answered questions based on the article. We learned how to find text evidence and how to properly answer a question. We will continue with nonfiction retelling next week by reading an article about the month of November.

Word Work: In word work, we worked on the long /e/ sound including words with ee and e_e and ea. It is very helpful to point these types of words out to your child when reading with him/her at home. We will move on to long /i/ words next week.

Writing Workshop: This week, we worked on revising our personal narratives. We'll continue to work on revision and will work on writing amazing leads and closings. Our focus will be on studying Mentor texts to help us with identifying authors' craft.

Math: This past week, we did lesson 2.8, 2.9, and 2.12 if you are following along with the home links. We had our Unit 2 test Thursday with an in-class review on Wednesday. We will be taking our quarterly test on Monday. This will cover material from the first two units. We will be taking one of these tests each quarter to see how the students have retained the previously learned information. On Wednesday of next week, we will be starting Unit 3 with a pretest. The results of that test will come home, along with a study guide for the unit. This review does not need to be returned to class.

Science and Social Studies:

We've been working on our Map unit, finishing up our "Me on the Map" flip book. We are also learning about ordinary people who have changed the world. We've read about Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, and Amelia Earhart. We've also practiced writing questions using the prompt: Ordinary People can change the world. We'll use this as our theme for Project Based Learning this year, incorporating this into our Science and Social Studies Units.