1. Please make sure that if you haven't signed up for conferences that you do so as soon as possible. It is coming up next month!
2. 5th grade families: the camp money & forms are due tomorrow, October 13. Please contact me if you need scholarships or have any questions or concerns regarding camp. It is coming up in two weeks!
Highlights:
-We started off the month of October with making delicious apple crisp in a crockpot and having it with some vanilla ice cream!
-We published our 2nd personal narratives to finish up our Personal Narratives unit in writing. This week, we will start a Realistic Fiction unit in writing. For homework writing entries, students are encouraged to continue the writing entries they are working on in class or to start new stories in the same genre as our writing unit.
-In math, we are working hard on long division and double-digit long division. It is a very challenging skill for students, but practice will help to get students more fluent in division. Please send students early to school to get math/homework help from me if they need the help!
-We are finishing up the last third of our read aloud, Something to Hold. Next week on October 21st, we will have a special visit from my grad school literacy professor from Seattle University, Katherine Schlick Noe. She is the author of our read aloud book, and she has agreed to come meet 307 students, share about her writing, and do a Q&A. I am so excited to have my former literacy professor come and teach my students!! We will definitely update with pictures from the visit.
-Last but not least, we finished our humdinger challenge:
... and started a new challenge in science, designing functioning go-carts! We will have many different challenges with the go-carts - here are some students getting creative and building their models:
*Student post written by our class bloggers/journalists coming soon!!
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