class newsletter

week of October 31, 2016

Dear Parents,

It was great to see the Principal's Pride awards this week. Our class is full of students that display the IB learner profile attributes. We also were treated to a wonderful music performance by 4th grade. I know our students are excited about the upcoming Halloween evening. Here is a note from the principal about Monday: 
No Halloween Costumes Allowed- Message from Principal

Spicewood ES does not celebrate or allow Halloween costumes at school to minimize instructional disruption.Please do not send your child to school in a costume next Monday. If they come to school with one on, parents/guardians will be contacted by the school personnel for a change of clothes.

Reminders:

Please remember to send a snack each day with your student. I have had to send several students to the nurse to get snack. The nurse provides these at her own expense. Let's help our students be responsible and remember snacks each day. Thank you. 

Please don't forget to send in Friday folders and homework folders on Monday. 

Library is on Friday so don't forget to send in library books on Friday.

Book baggie books will be turned in on November 7. 
In the homework folder is a mystery bag activity that is due on Tuesday, November 1. The instructions are to put one item in a paper bag (not a see through bag) and write three clues to help students identify the object inside. This is to go along with the skill of inference in reading. 

This week in:

social studies/science:

We have been learning about plant and animal characteristics. We have learned about how animals need different eyes, noses, and limbs to survival in the wide. We have learned about the different parts of a plant such as leaves, stems roots and flowers and their functions. Next week we will be learning about how weather effects animals and plants. We will be learning about migration, hibernation, and dormancy. 

math:

We have finished our look at using different math strategies for addition. We are going to move to linear measurement. Students will start with nonstandard measurement and move to learning how to measure inches and feet. 

writing:

We are continuing with our All About books. Students have done research on five different questions about a plant or animal. The students are creating a nonfiction book. It will include a table of contents, text features,i introduction, conclusion and glossary.

reading:

We have done nonfiction text feature surgery. We have cut apart nonfiction magazines and found a variety of text features and learned about their purpose. We will be learning about inferences this coming week. How do we take what we know, what we read and make an inference. 

word work:

We will be looking at the long and short e vowel patterns this week. The high frequency word will be in homework folders on Monday.

The high frequency words for this week are:

best, dress, end, get, left, let, men, open, red, set, seven, ten, them, then, yes, next, tell, keep, see, seem, he, me, she, we, dear, ear, eat, hear, near, read, the. 

Secret words for the week: Mary Poppins

Have a wonderful weekend. 

Ms. Hansen