Week of 10/26

IMPORTANT DATES/REMINDERS:

• Remember to send in Boxtops - we need to finish strong so we can WIN and earn some money for CAES!! This week is the last week! 
• Field trip money and permission is due by next Friday, 11/6. 
• Picture Retakes/Make-ups are being taken on Thursday! Remember to send in order forms if you are planning on ordering the prints that were sent home last week. 
• We'll have our Pumpkin Day this Friday! The children can wear orange! We still need 3 pumpkins for our activities on this day. =)
• Book Fair starts Monday. Our class will have a preview day, then they can purchase any day after they finish morning work (8:35 - 9:05), or after they eat their lunch. Grand Lunch is next Friday, 11/6. 
• Friday, 11/6: 2:20 dismissal and end of the first quarter. 
• Math CPA (CheckPoint Assessment = benchmark test) is going to be November 10th. 
• Reading CPA is November 12th and 13th. 
• School is closed for Veterans Day on Wednesday, November 11th. 

Here's what we'll be working on this week:

Language Arts:
Reading Strategy: Summarizing (fiction)

Skills: Realism/fantasy, sequencing, contractions
Grammar: Irregular plurals
Writing: Descriptive writing, editing/revising

**Please be sure your child brings word study baggies to school each day - we use them in class.

Math:

We've moved on to money (SOL 3.8). Students will have to determine the value of a collection of bills and coins ($5.00 and less), compare money amounts, and make change. There will be a quiz on Friday. Keep practicing math skills on IXL - students often have a hard time when subtracting with regrouping. Please encourage your mathematician to check his/her work by working backwards from their answer, using the inverse operation. A review packet will be coming home next week in preparation for the CPA on 11/10. 

Science: (with Mrs. King)

Students are studying food chains and will soon move on to habitats. Stay tuned to agenda for more information/assessment dates.

Social Studies:

We have begun our continents and oceans unit (SOL 3.5). Students have to be able to identify the seven continents and five oceans. They also have to understand the equator and prime meridian and classify the continents and oceans according to the hemispheres. We'll also be studying grid maps. There is a continents and oceans retake quiz on Thursday.