We will be taking our field trip to Babler State Park for Missouri Heritage Days on Monday. All students need to bring their lunch on Monday, as we will be eating lunch on the field trip. Children should also wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather. We are leaving first thing in the morning, so it is important that students arrive to school on time. It should be a fun day!
Report cards will be emailed this year on the 24th and 25th.
Class Updates:
We have finished up our ecosystems unit in science. Check out some pictures below of bananas for our experiment on decomposers! We will now be switching back to social studies for a while to continue our study of Missouri. Our next chapter covers the various cultures and traditions of the people of our state. Students will examine their heritage and learn how artifacts can connect people to their past.
In reading, students learned how to mark "VIP" points in their books with sticky notes in order to help them place the most important events of the story into a sequencing chart. We are also practicing identifying similes in stories. Looking ahead next week we will begin to work on visualizing and summarizing.
In writing, we spent the week working on writing scenes in our fiction stories. Many students are developing very lengthy pieces with several scenes! We learned three new strategies for writing a strong lead and brainstormed many new ways to say the word "said" in dialogue. The children are learning to write "Ba-Da-Bing" sentences as a way to show (not tell) what is happening in their stories. Ask you child what "Ba-Da-Bing" means! Below are some of our fall sensory poems.
In math, we are continuing to work on data and graphing. The students have been learning the importance of choosing the correct scale and interval on a graph, as well as determining the proper key for a pictograph. Coming up this week we will be covering bar graphs, double bar graphs, circle graphs, and line graphs.
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