Week of October 20
Learning First Testing Begins on Monday. The schedule is as follows:
- Monday 9:00 a.m. - Reading Passages and Multiple Choice Questions
- Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - Math Multiple Choice Questions
- Wednesday 9:00 a.m. - Reading Extended Response
- Wednesday 12:30 p.m. - Math Extended Response
Please help your child to be on time each day. If a student arrives late, he/she will have to make up the test at another time and will miss out on instructional time.
Walk-A-Thon on Thursday, October 23.
Murray students have been raising money for the Murray Fall Walk-A-Thon. We will be walking the neighborhood. Please send your child in appropriate dress. Wearing layers often helps as students can add and remove as needed. Room 203 is still in need of parent volunteers to walk with us on Thursday. I only have one volunteer at this time.
Murray Family Math Night - Tuesday, October 28
Come to Murray from 6:00-7:30 p.m. for hands-on activities and leave with practical strategies and resources to strengthen the home school partnership in math. There will be a short keynote presentation and then families will head to small group sessions organized by grade level.
Book Advertisement
Time is running out. The Book Advertisement project is due October 30. Students should be finished with their books and begin work on the draft of their projects. The best way to help your child is by helping them to plan and gather materials. This is inevitably their project.
READING
Because of Winn-Dixie
- We will read through chapter 20.
- Analyze changes in characters
- Discuss themes
- Reader Response: Would you eat a Littmus Lozenge?
- Possibly a quiz at the end of the week
WRITING
- Revision: Students are learning various “cutting and pasting” strategies for their narrative writing
- Moving from Draft 1 to Draft 2
MATH
- Lesson 2.7, part 1 - Adding multidigit numbers using the partial sum method
- Lesson 2.7, part 2 - Adding multidigit numbers using column addition method (traditional method)
- Lesson 2.8 - Subtracting multidigit numbers using column subtraction
- Unit 2 Math Test is coming up. It looks like it will be on October 29
SOCIAL STUDIES
- We will continue work on our computer mapping projects. Be sure to ask your child about the work he/she is doing in the lab. We have make great progress in just a few days.
SCIENCE
- Mixtures and Solutions - exploration to identify which solids can dissolve
- Solubility
- Chapter Test will be Week of October 27
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