Week at a Glance September 28th-October 2nd

Ride the Weekly Wave:

Math-We will be working on subtracting larger numbers through apps and stations!

Reading-We will continue reading Wonder as our mentor text for our Choose Kind PBL as we focus on character traits, vocabulary, and comprehension. We will introduce Greek/Latin -cour/cor root words. 

ELA/Writing-In Writer’s Workshop, we will be having mini-lessons and writing activities on how to use conjunctions correctly. We will also deliver our friendly letters to our book buddies and begin "top ten" writing. 

Social Studies- We will continue our unit on the explorers using hands-on activities and technology! We will be creating explorer baseball cards and testing this week. 

Science- What’s with the weather?? We will continue weather this week through hands-on activities and making a model of the water cycle!

 Anchor Down for…Upcoming Tests/Projects:

·       Thursday Math Test on Subtraction of Larger Numbers *Study notes on subtraction in math NB

·       Friday- SS Explorers Test *Study flashcards and notes on explorer motivations, explorer routes, and technology

·       Friday- Math 4 Today Test #15 *Study M4T Practice Sheet #15 that we check in class

Homework for the Week:

(please refer to your child's agenda daily for more details-this is only an OUTLINE of what to expect):

·       **Graded papers signed/returned by Tuesday!!**

·       Due Wednesday- Make flashcards on 1) SS explorers 2) G/L -cour/cor words

·       Read 2 steps (30 minutes) for 100 BC and sign Reading Log *every* night

·       Study Multiplication flashcards (all missed fast facts) 10 minutes *every night* & sign log

·       Math workbook HW on subtraction throughout the week

 AHOY…Announcements Ahead!

Upcoming Events:  

-THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for your generosity, and our DonorsChoose project was fully funded in less than a week!!! Wobble stools have arrived, and the privacy partitions have been shipped!! –Love, Mrs. Burns 

-Monday, September 28th- We are getting together with our little sister in Mrs. Hall's class to skype with a real estate agent for Mighty Girl Monday!

-Wednesday, September 30^th- Boosterthon Pep Rally
-Friday, October 9th- Boosterthon Fun Run

Crew Member of the Week Check out Hattie's tweets! @mrsburns19girls

Hattie is our star student this week for showing the character traits of PERSEVERANCE, KINDNESS and COLLABORATION in the classroom this week!! Hannah is kind to everyone around her, and she always, always does her very best on her schoolwork! She is a great role model!!

100 BC Goals

Our class was the second in the entire school to all reach 100 steps!!

Good-120

Better-140