October

Here's what's happening in our classroom...

• Lead Time - Students are learning about Beginning with the end in mind. Students have created goals in math and reading.  You should've seen a goal page come home this week. Check with your child to see how they are coming along with goals! 
• Reading - By the end of the first quarter students should be able to identify key story elements, make inferences and select a theme in a fictional text.  We have also been working on summarizing a text.   
• Writing - Students just finished up their personal narratives.  They learned how to write a strong beginning, middle and end, and include sensory details.  Check in and ask your child what personal story they are writing about. 
• Math - We are finishing Topic 4.  Students should be multiplying two digit numbers by two digit numbers using different strategies.   
• Social Studies - Over the last two weeks we have learned how to read and create maps. Students learned about Cardinal and Intermediate directions, coordinate grids, rural and urban areas, and how to use a map scale.  

A few reminders: 
Fall Parties are this Friday, October 19th at 10:00.  This is a half day and school dismisses at 12:30. 

Don't forget to be checking your child's take home folder each night.  There are important notes that come home, graded papers on Friday, and math papers and math homework comes home daily.  Also, math homework is optional, but if you notice your student struggling in math, or if you would like them to have that extra practice, they do get extra dojo points for turning it in.  

Also, your child should be doing some reading at home.  If you are not seeing them read, please ask what they are reading at school, or ask them about their library books. I do not require students to keep a reading log, but we do have a 30 book challenge each student is trying to meet.  If your child is not reading at home, this is going to be hard for them to meet this goal.  Ask them how many books they have finished and recorded in their log. 

Don't forget to wear your Monday shirts.  This is one of our school goals to unite as a community, and it is part of our Willard North mission statement.  These are such a great gift from school money and from Freedom Bank.  Freedom Bank helps make sure it is possible for EVERY student in the school to get a shirt. 

Other Important Dates: ​

• Oct. 30 & Nov. 1 - Parent Teacher conferences - please contact me if you are not signed up for a time.  I will send out reminders closer to that time. 
• Oct. 29th Tiger Pride
  
• Nov. 2nd No School 
  
• Nov. 5th No School 
  
• Nov. 6th No School 
  
• Nov. 9th Veterans' Day Assembly 9am
  
• Nov. 21, 22, 23 No School - Thanksgiving Break