ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS
PERMISSION SLIPS AND ADMISSION FEES FOR THE NUTCRACKER NEED TO BE TURNED IN! If you have not turned them in yet, please do so as soon as possible! Students will not be allowed to go without a signed permission slip. No student will be left out of the field trip because their family cannot send in the $1.50 for the admission fee. If the admission fee is a hardship for you family, please let me know! We can make it work! Any questions, please let me know!
Please send in the Flat Stanley papers! We will need the names and addresses of all of Team Blowey’s friends or family members willing to participate in the project before we can start our Flat Stanley projects in school. If you do not have any friends or family members out of state that are willing to participate, please let me know! I have friends and family members on stand by!
Although today was quite warm, the weather is getting much colder on a daily basis. Please remember to send your child to school with a jacket, hat, and mittens!
Please remember to send in a healthy snack to keep your child’s brain and body energized throughout the day! They are also able to have a water bottle on their desk to keep them hydrated. However, ONLY WATER is allowed in the water bottle. Juice can be a lunch time drink, not a class time drink.
This Thursday, we will be having bus safety! Students will learn all about being safe on the bus. Be sure to ask your child about some safety rules they should remember when they come home.
Also on Thursday, Mrs. Thibodeau will be joining us with another fun-filled lesson to help us be successful at Russell School!
Homework packets are due on Thursday! Please remind your child to put their homework packets in their folders on Wednesday night.
Next week’s homework packet (the one that will be sent home on Thursday) will be a Thanksgiving Fun Homework Packet. The packet will consist of a menu of choices for Team Blowey to choose from. Students are encouraged to do at least one of the activities over the break. If you have any questions after you have received it, please let me know!
This week in...
ELA (English Language Arts):
We have been very busy working to understand story elements. We have been reading stories as a whole group and then identifying the following elements: title, characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, problem, solution, and moral of the story. This can be quite a challenge! So far we have practiced with Chocolate Fever, Flat Stanley and Too Many Pumpkins. During this week, we will also read Rainbow Fish and Big Pumpkin to get some more practice. Then, students will be challenged to read a story on their own and complete a graphic organizer for all of these elements.
We are also reviewing what a fluent reader looks like. A fluent reader is able to read smoothly, have short pauses in between words, pay attention to punctuation, and read with expression. We have practiced with some poetry and some short stories. Fluency comes with lots and lots of practice!
We are finishing up our “How to Catch a Turkey” writing as well. As we move through the writing process, Team Blowey is really writing some very creative plans for catching turkeys!
Math:
We are beginning to wrap up our fractions unit. We have been busy dividing circles and rectangles into halves, thirds, and fourths. We’ve also been practicing how to write and read fractions to match the fraction that we see in a picture. Team Blowey has also been working on being able to divide identical wholes in different ways (i.e. I could divide a sandwich in half vertically or diagonally). As we’re nearing the top of Mount Shapes and Fractions, we’ll be throwing in some fraction challenges as well. Here are some of the challenges we’ll be working on.
- Working with larger denominators such as fifths, sixths, eighths, twelfths, etc.
- Working to create a quilt with 100 squares. After designing the quilt, students must write a fraction for each color they used. This is our way of introducing percents!
- Working with fractions of groups or sets. For example, a half of a dozen of cookies is six cookies.
- Working with fractions in time (i.e. how many minutes are in a quarter hour or a half hour?)
- Working with equivalent fractions. For example, 2/4 is equal to 1/2.
Social Studies:
We are busy collecting all kinds of facts about the Pilgrims, the Mayflower, and the first Thanksgiving! When we are finished collecting all of our facts, we will turn them into a Mayflower shaped fact book! We can use this book to teach others about the first Thanksgiving.
Words to think about:
Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do!
I hope everyone has a great week!
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