Week of October 19

Red Ribbon Week is October 23rd - 31st.  We  will have a poster contest, fun activities, etc, so watch for the information coming home with your students.

PTA Fun Run dates:  Nov 3rd is the Pep Rally and Nov 13th is the PTA Fun Run. The PTA will need 5-10 volunteers each session during the Fun Run.  Please contact Barbara York if you would like to volunteer.  barbarayork03@gmail.com

Nov 6th is our Movie on the Lawn.  This will be a free event.  Gates open at 6pm and the movie will start at 6:30 pm.  Pizza, soda, candy and glow necklaces will be sold all for $1.00 each.  Movie to be shown:  "Inside Out" 

Wednesday is Early Release.

Resources this week:
Cox:
Monday: PE
Tuesday: Science lab
Thursday: Art

Kluge:
Monday: Music
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Art
Friday: Art

ELA: This week, we begin reading an informational text that will wrap our study of how people all over the world access books and how they overcome many challenges to do so. Our text is: 

We will look closely at several countries: Peru, Kenya, Finland, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Canada, and Mongolia. We will work in groups and independently, to closely read and research the countries. This will prepare us for our end-of-unit assessment in which we will independently read about another country to do the following activities. 

We will: 

• note words we are unfamiliar with
• determine the "gist" of the text excerpts
• think about the physical features that make it difficult to access books
• find out how people overcome these difficulties
• explore text features such as, illustrations, photographs, and maps of the countries
• answer text-dependent questions 

In writing, we have really begun to master strong and organized paragraph writing. We will be revising and editing our "hero" paragraphs. We use the following format:

Topic sentence

     Detail

          Explain the detail

     Detail

          Explain the detail

Conclusion - restate the topic and provide closure

Throughout the paragraph, we use transitional phrases (For example, One reason, For instance, etc.) to provide clarity for our readers. 

MATH: This week in math we will work on decomposing a liter to reason about the size of 1 liter, 100 milliliters, 10 milliliters, and 1 milliliter.  We will estimate and measure liquid volume in liters and milliliters using vertical number line, and solve word problems involving all four operations with grams, kilograms, liters, and milliliters given in the same units.        

Math Homework:

Lesson 8

Lesson 9

Lesson 10

Lesson 11

Things to practice at home:

At home practice identifying different containers and their capacities.

Practice estimating and measuring liquids using various metric units.

SCIENCE: This week in Science we will begin learning about matter.  We will identify the different properties of matter and identify ways to describe objects such as size, shape, color, texture, and hardness.