Wonderful Wednesdays...

* Math Homework tonight: enVision page 164 25-33
Please have your student explain their thinking with these word problems. We are noticing that students are having difficulty figuring out how to set-up and work a word problem.

* Recorders - $ 4.50
The classes with the highest percent of recorders ordered get an ice cream party.

* Don't forget to look at the moon. Make sure you are updating your journal. Use good description words.

* First field trip - Marine Science Center November 19th - Permission slips will come home Thursday. This is a free field trip. Students will just need to bring a drink, bag lunch, and jug to collect shells. If you would like to go on this trip please let us know.

* The last day of the grading period is October 22. Please make sure you are checking Oncourse to monitor test corrections and missing assignments.

* Students must read 7 books by October 22. This is our first quarter goal.

Have a great evening!

I see the Moon, and the Moon sees ME!

In case you forgot to look tonight! What do you notice about the Moon? Compare with your previous entries and look at the "shadow" now.

* Don't forget YOUR food web! Remember it must be your 3 favorite foods!

* Do your homework- it wasn't such a nice surprise for some of you today!

* Make sure you have 7 books read and logged!

* Don't forget to purchase your recorder ($4.50) by Friday!!!

See you in the am!

Laptop Fridays...

Fridays are great days in Room 138!

All smiles! It must be the APPLE!

Working hard!

Laroy and Tianna - Star Students of the Week! Way to go!

* Week 8 starts this week! Hard to believe the first nine weeks is almost over! UNREAL!!!

* October 25th (Monday) is a teacher planning day- no school for students

* Students must read 9 books by 10/21

*Don't forget to buy your SEC Gator Bowl tickets - $20.00!!

See you in the am!

A Pretty Normal Week!

Laroy and Joshua share about their tribe!

Christian and Destiny - confident 5th graders!

We are practicing looking up answers in our Social Studies book - learning the "secrets" to taking and PASSING OPEN BOOK TESTS!!

Erisa has found the answer!

It's amazing, but it actually works-- showing kids how to find answers in a book! They did so great on the fist part of their test today!!! Our Social Studies projects ROCKED!! It was so amazing to see how many Native American cultures were alike, and yet so different. Next we will launch into Chapter 3 -

* We are also closing out our Division unit in Math. We will roll right on over to Fractions, Decimals, and Percents next. We are noticing that students are struggling with word problems- ESPECIALLY problems that have multi-step directions. You may invite your child to bring home their enVision book and work on some of the word problems with them. Not only solving, but talking about what the problem is asking, and how would they solve it, how would they determine if their answer is reasonable, and how could they check it.

* Today we made Moon Books. Over the next 30 days we will be observing and journaling about the Moon. This always seems to give students a hard time- Moon facts- Mrs. Yadon and I were talking today, and we both learned a lot about the moon on 3-2-1 Contact an old PBS after school Science show.

(You will need to pause the GREAT music at the bottom to watch the video)

This may help with the Moon Phases- very cute clip by Bill Nye the Science Guy!

Monday Happenings-

* Homework tonight-
1. Math (enVision page 50 7-15
2. Science FCAT Prep Book pages 25-27

* Housekeeping- We need the following items to assist with some October Activities

1. Donations of individually hard wrapped candy (Life Savers, Jolly Ranchers, etc.)
2. Donations of various size pumpkins (we need about 9 small, 9 medium, and 5 large)
3. Pumpkin seeds (toasted or bagged)
4. Black Oreo's (8 packages)

We are going to have a measurement lab on Friday, October 29th- We will be sending home a list of items we would like each child to send in. We need those items by Wednesday, October 27th. We will also need some parent volunteers to help with that day as well. Please be on the look out for your list this week.

* Remember our PTA Fundraiser is in effect. Please try to support the PTA with the purchase of at least one item.

* Please continue to practice multiplication facts with your students. These facts should be automatic.

Have a great week!

Start the week off right!

Deborah's diorama drama!!! (the three d's- Class... what's that called?) We can't even tell you how much fun we are having with these diorama's! Are presentations start Monday. It has served us well to bring out our art side.

These papers came home Friday- I know that your students gave them to you IMMEDIATELY. Our PTA fundraiser started, so the kids are really excited about those prize opportunities.

Meet our newest Orff members: Dajana, Deborah, and Erisa- Congratulation GIRLS!! You set your mind to it- and YOU MADE IT!!!

* Remember that Wednesday is EARLY RELEASE!!!

* Student Reminder * If you are out of school it is YOUR responsibility to gather your make-up work. You have one day for every day you were out, and then those grades change to zero. Please check the Student Handbook to see what is considered an excused absence.

* The weather change is nice- can't wait to see what cool weather October brings!

Let them be Creative!

This has turned into a really great project for our class! Everyone is working hard and engaged! We have become masters of "gathering" research to support our work.

We "found" some clay this year before school started- thought to ourselves, surely we can use this somewhere! And used it the kids have. It is so great to see kid creativity in action.

Remember, these are works in progress!

We can't wait to see the finished project. Our Computer Resource teacher will come in Friday and teach Key Notes (similar to PowerPoint) to our kids so they can prepare a slide show (with pictures) for their presentation. Who knew Social Studies could be so fun!

See you in the am!