Thank you to anyone who sent in a hat for Ellie's Hat Drive! The school collected 185 hats for children who lose their hair due to cancer treatments.
Interims will go home tomorrow - only students who have a 2 or below will receive an interim. It will be stapled into your child's agenda. If your child has an interim report, please sign the bottom and have your child return it.
My apologies for those of you who have been checking ParentVue and not seeing grades! Phoenix (the program in which I enter my grades) is continually updating their software, and for some reason the "allow parents to see grades" box was not checked on a lot of assignments. There are about 14 options I have to select before I can enter grades in for any given assignment, so my apologies for the long wait. You should be able to check ParentVue now to see all grades, which will correlate to all the assignments that have been coming home in Thursday folders.
This week in...
Virginia studies: Students will begin learning about the Native American groups that live and lived in Virginia, there was a humongous printing error with the two Virginia Studies weekly newspaper issues that teach the kids about the American Indians. Because of this error, I did not assign students to read their newspapers this week and take a quiz for a grade.
Science: I hope students told you all about the amazing watershed demonstration they created, there are photos and videos available on my twitter feed @educatorakbar
Students will continue to learn about Virginia's natural resources this week.
The test on this unit will be on Friday, October 7th! Students should review the study guide that went home two weeks ago as well as their Science Interactive notebook, and www.solpass.org
Reading: Students will continue to synthesize their reading and analyze how characters develop in their reading. New reading logs were distributed last week, please make sure your child is filling out BOTH sides of their reading log - the pages and minutes read nightly, AND the title of the book they are reading on the back of the page.
Language arts: Students will receive new word study words tomorrow. PLEASE check to see that they are following the instructions correctly. All assignments are listed on the inside front cover of their Word Study notebook.
Students have been combining what they are learning about watersheds with their writing in their "Journey of a Raindrop" stories. Students have been creating stories that describe the journey a raindrop takes through the watershed and working through the writing process: brainstorm, draft, editing, revising, publishing.
As usual, students will take their Word Study Test on Friday.
Math: Please make sure your child is going on Reflex Math AT LEAST 3 times a week, this can include weekends if your weeknights are too busy to get all three sessions in.
Upcoming Events:
Monday, 10/3: Scholastic Book Fair Begins
Monday, 10/3: INTERIMS SENT HOME
Tuesday, 10/4: Scholastic Book Fair Family Night from 3-6 pm
Wednesday, 10/5: Walk to School Day @ 7:10 am
Sunday, 10/9: I get married!
Monday, 10/10: Columbus Day - NO SCHOOL
Monday, 10/17: PTA Meeting @ 6:30
Tuesday, 10/18: Parent Coffee @ 11:15 am "How do we all fit in?"
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