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Items of Interest:

• Progress Reports will be sent home on Wednesday.  Please sign and return to school by Friday October 10.
• Picture Day is Friday, October 17.  Order forms were sent home on Friday.
• This year we will have a Fall Walk-A-Thon which will be held on Thursday, October 23.  Information was sent home on Friday.  This fundraiser will replace the fall candy sale.   There will be a Spring Walk-A-Thon as well.
• The 2nd Book Response project has been assigned.  Students are to take one of their independent books and design a book advertisement.  An information sheet and grading rubric was sent home on Tuesday.  Please help your child to make a plan for choosing a book, reading the book, gathering materials, writing a rough draft, and putting it all together.  Please remember this is your child’s project, but helping them to make a plan will help them to be successful.  The advertisement is due on Thursday, October 30.
• We will be starting a mapping project with Mr. Mills.  Please be on the lookout for information and some homework that will be done before we can start the project.

Thank you for checking in.  Have a wonderful week!

Ms. Finke

READING

We will continue reading Because of Winn Dixie.  The students have done a great job diving into this lovely book.  We will have a quiz on Chapters 6-10 at some point this week.  In addition we will continue to:

• Keep thinking notes with each chapter
• Add character traits and evidence to our character chart
• Begin to look for themes in the book
• Work with our reading partners to discuss important events and people in the story

WRITING

• Writing and revising leads for our personal narrative stories
• Write discovery draft

MATH

Unit 2 - Using Numbers and Organizing Data

• Lesson 2.4 - Practice place-value using a calculator
• Lesson 2.5 - Gather, organize, display, and analyze data using a tally chart
• Lesson 2.6 - Gather, organize, display, and analyze data on a line-plot graph

We will take a step away from Unit 2 in order to further study the various types of graphs that are used to display data.  This week we will revisit Bar Graphs.

Please encourage your child to study his/her basic facts for 5-10 minutes each evening. We are coming to the end of our weekly quizzes but students are still encouraged to practice nightly.

SCIENCE

New Unit - Properties of Matter

• Exploration to compare and contrast the mass of water, corn oil, and corn syrup
• Lesson 1:  Using physical properties to identify matter
• Note taking and homework activities

SOCIAL STUDIES

Reading a street map and using the cardinal directions to move to various points.

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