Weekly Announcements: 10/26-10/30

• 10/26-10/30: RED RIBBON WEEK
• Monday: Wear RED! “Say no to drugs!”
• Tuesday: Cowboy clothes: “Give Drugs the Boot”
• Wed: Mismatched/Crazy Socks- “Sock it to Drugs!”
• Thurs: Favorite sports jersey/tshirt: “Team Up Against Drugs!”
• Fri: White clothing or Halloween costume; “Say BOO to Drugs!”
• 10/29/15: Pumpkin Capers: All 4th graders need to bring in a pumpkin the size of their head for our awesome science lab! We begin at 9:05 am. I will keep your child’s pumpkin for you beginning on Monday 10/26. Thank you Mrs. Wente for volunteering!
• 10/30/15: Halloween Celebration: Please feel free to send in ONLY healthy, low sugar treats. I cannot accept anything homemade :-(. We will be watching Holes in the morning, and participating in the Costume Parade in the afternoon. School Harvest Festival 10/30 @ 4:00 PM
• 11/2-11/6: Parent Teacher Conferences.  Students will be dismissed at 2pm on Tuesday-Friday. Our conferences will begin on 10/29, due to travel.
• 12/1/15: 5th grade Science Camp Meeting. Camp dates: 5/9-5/11/16. Cost 195.00. Deposit of $50.00 due on 12/13/15.
• Your students’ direction for the “Trimester Book Project” are in this folder. Your student should be reading their chosen book and taking notes. Please review the assignment.Time for Step 4! Doing our projects!

Things to ask your kiddo, October 23rd edition

It was a good week, with lots of important work completed!
Grades are pretty well updated in Home Access Center, for you to check. Remember, we now only grade on a scale of 1-4, in order to match the state testing bands.

IMPORTANT: ALL 4th GRADERS NEED A PUMPKIN, ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF THEIR HEAD, AT SCHOOL BY THURSDAY 10/29/15, FOR 'PUMPKIN CAPERS"!

Things to ask your kiddo:

• 4th and 5th: What joint project did you do in science? What question are you answering on your google slide?
• Are you being a respectful and compassionate classmate?
• Are you talking over your teacher during instruction, and making it difficult for all students to hear and understand the tasks?
• What is a number talk? Can you make up one for me to do?
• You have a lot of writing in your binder at school. What do you need to work on to become a better writer?
• What special activities are happening next week for Red Ribbon Week?

Weekly Announcements, October 19-23

Alberg's Awesome Word: Awareness

10/23/15 Last day to bring in socks for SOCKTOBER!

10/30/15 Last day for 4th graders to bring in See's Candies Orders.

10/30/15: Halloween Celebration: Please feel free to send in ONLY healthy, low sugar treats. I cannot accept anything homemade :-(. We will be watching Holes in the morning, and participating in the Costume Parade in the afternoon. School Harvest Festival 10/30 @ 3:30 PM

11/2-11/6: Parent Teacher Conferences.  Students will be dismissed at 2pm on Tuesday-Friday. Our conferences will begin on 10/29, due to travel.

12/1/15: 5th grade Science Camp Meeting. Camp dates: 5/9-5/11/16. Cost 195.00. Deposit of $50.00 due on 12/13/15.

Your students’ direction for the “Trimester Book Project” are in this folder. Your student should be reading their chosen book and taking notes. Please review the assignment.Time for Step 4! Doing our projects!

Things to ask your kiddo, October 16th edition

What were your jobs in literature circles this week?
Did you do well being a member of your literature circle? Did you participate? Did you listen? Were you ready?
Tell me about your chemistry and electricity project. (See slides on our web page)
What is sage and scribe? How does it work?
Have we brought socks in yet, to donate for Socktober?

Weekly Announcements, October 5-9

Well, I wish this was what we saw each day...

Here are the weekly announcements:

• 4th graders are selling See's Candy to support our field trip to Riley's Farm in March. If each child raises $50.00 the trip to the "Gold Rush Adventure" should be covered.
• Both classes are participating in Socktober...please help your student collect new socks for homeless adults and children. We will be collecting them until October 23rd. Ask your friends and family to help out!
• There is no school (for students) on Monday, October 12th!
• Pumpkin capers is coming soon for the 4th grade!
• Our conferences will begin the last week of October. Minimum days for students, however, are 11/2-11/6. Please make sure your child is picked up on time.

Please talk with your students about respectful behavior and personal responsibility. It is absolutely an on-going conversation in our home! It is not okay to keep chatting over an adult, or to tune out during instruction time, or talk back when a consequence is given.

Watch this space for sample math lessons!

Have a great week!

Things to ask your kiddo about school this week, October 2nd edition

Greetings, and Happy October!

I triple love the month of October, and can't wait to share it with your students!

Without further ado:

• can they show you partial products (4th grade) and partial quotients (5th grade) in math. They should be able to demonstrate these cool strategies for solving multiplication and division problems.
• What is Socktober? Who started it? Why? Are you participating? (Please do!)
• What is a number talk? What do we do during that time?
• What was required of them on their language arts Culminating task? What did they learn from it?

Have a wonderful weekend! Check back on Monday for the weekly announcements!