Parent-Teacher Conferences are this week. You should be receiving a reminder email from Sign-Up Genius to let you know the date and time of your conference. I look forward to meeting with you!
This is Red Ribbon Week. Long students can take part in the drug awareness prevention program by wearing certain items throughout the week.
The Book Fair is underway in the Long School Library. Students can bring money to school to purchase books, and families can also stop by before or after your parent-teacher conference.
The Halloween Parade and Classroom Party will be held on Thursday, October 29th. Parents are welcome to attend. The Parade begins at 1:40, with parties immediately following the parade.
There is no school Friday, October 30th.
Class Updates:
Last week, 4th and 5th grade students were able to participate in Ability Awareness Day. Students rotated to four different guest speakers, including the CHADS Coalition, CHAMPS guide dogs, and learning about spinal cord injury. In one activity with LifeBridge Partnership, children were able to experience what it would be like to do daily tasks like writing, opening containers, and dressing without the use of their hands. They wore socks over their hands to simulate the experience.
In math, we have started a unit on division. Students are working on mastering their basic facts in division and are practicing concepts in estimating quotients and long division. The children are also exploring how multiplication and division are related.
In reading, we have been learning how to summarize fiction texts. Next, will be covering skills and strategies of reading non-fiction books, including using text features to grain greater understanding and identifying text structures. Students will also be working on summarizes non-fiction and identifying the main idea and related details of the texts they read.
We had a great time celebrating the conclusion of our personal narrative unit in writing. The kids were able to read each other's published pieces with flashlights as they relaxed in their pajamas. After reading each story, the children left compliments for each other.
We are beginning our informational unit in writing. Currently, the children are learning how to conduct research and take notes. Over the next several weeks, students will be researching and writing a report on a topic related to Native Americans. We also took some time to review the importance of word choice to make our writing more descriptive. The kids each picked two overused and "dull" words, and looked up more interesting and colorful synonyms and antonyms that could be used instead. We created a fall display of our words.
In social studies, we have been exploring Native Americans of various regions of the United States, including the Northwest, Southwest, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands. The students have also learned about ancient civilizations like the Mound Builders and the Aztecs. Our focus has been on comparing and contrasting the homes, food sources, traditions, and environments of each groups of Native Americans. The children are learning how the natural resources available in a region greatly impacted the daily lives of the people who lived there. Students will be directly applying what they have learned to help them with writing their informational reports in writing workshop. Here are some pictures of our finished My World Projects from our last unit:
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