It’s been a great week!  Thanks so much for taking the time to read this blog!  Please encourage your student to read this as well.  🙂

Mrs. Lucas is asking everyone participate in PE Success Week and attempt these activities together as a family:

This year Success week is October 26th-30th. This program is aimed at motivating students, families, and communities to participate in a physically active lifestyle. This event is to help individuals become aware of heart-health related fitness components, to promote self-esteem by acknowledging each student’s achievement, and to establish a plan for participation in physical activities at home, school and the community. Remember being active is a lifestyle. Families are encouraged to upload a photo or a video in the google slide which can be found in the link provided: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1shIrpa0k3KJow52kM0iJrTbNsK15__Qq6ML8LmoaKrM/edit#slide=id.p

This year while in Physical Education class, students will participate in fall fitness fun activities which will incorporate the 5 components of fitness. The schedule for success week is below and will consist of the following events:

Mouthful Monday-26th: Write down everything you eat on a piece of paper and bring it with you to PE class. Ask yourself, “Am I eating a variety of colors at each meal?” If you aren’t, then you may want to change your eating habits. It’s important to eat healthy to develop strong bones, muscles and teeth. Wear a different color on each part of your body to remind yourself to eat a colorful meal.

Team Jersey Tuesday-27th: Wear your favorite team jersey. Participate in a family plank challenge and see who can hold the plank the longest, then take a relaxing walk in the evening with your family.

Workout Wednesday-28th: Wear your fitness clothing and sneakers. Do 25 jumping jacks, 8 push-ups, 10 burpees, 20 mountain climbers and jog or walk a mile with your family.

Thirsty Thursday-29th: Drink lots of water.  It does the body good!  Did you know that about 70% of your body is made of water? Check the label on your liquids. Does it have any sugar? If it does, reduce the amount of sugar you are drinking. Wear light blue to remind yourself to drink lots of water. Go on a bike ride with a friend or family member.

Flexible Friday-30th: School Spirit Day. Wear school spirit colors and be part of a winning team.  Practice a few stretching exercises with your family. Being flexible prevents injuries when participating in sports. Relax and enjoy the weekend.

ALL Students need a piece of white paper and something to write or draw with in PE.

Important Dates:

10/27  Science Weather Test

10/30  Mystery Book Reports Due

10/30  Word Trek Quizzes Lesson #7

11/2   Parent Teacher Conferences by appointment

11/6   PE assignments due for Mrs. Lucas

MATH

We will continue with decimal computation this week.   Students have notes in their notebooks.  There are also notes and examples in the Math Folder in the Student Resources Folder.  Please continue to encourage them to use their notes while doing their homework.

Dreambox – Families, please click on this link for directions on how to use the Family Dashboard to see your child’s progress in this uniquely tailored math program. The weekly goal is 5 lessons.  Each lesson should take 8-15 minutes MAX.  If students are taking longer to complete a lesson, they may be “perusing” lessons rather than persisting through the content. It’s okay if they don’t know the answers! Dreambox will tailor lessons for them as it gains information on their current skill level. Dreambox Home Learning Guide

LANGUAGE ARTS

This week we will talk about identifying the main idea and summarizing important details in reading. We have really been focusing on using evidence in the text to support our thinking and answers to questions. We will continue this by using key details to defend our choice of main idea and to create a solid summary. 

We finished Because of Mr. Terupt this week.  The kids loved it!  This week they will start the final project for this book.  It involves choosing one character and displaying the character development that occurs from the beginning of the book to the end.  They will have several choices to do this, including becoming a character on Flipgrid, creating a Google slideshow, writing journal entries, or their own project choice.  These are going to be so cool! 

Your child should be finishing their book reports.  These are due October 30th.  Your child needs to share their response questions with me along with a picture of their project. Students will be given an option to share their projects with the class, but it is not required.  I am excited to see their projects and read their response questions!

SCIENCE

Our weather test is Tuesday, October 27th.  We will review in class Monday.  We will begin our oceans unit on Friday.  This is one of our team’s favorite units to teach.  There will be a study guide and notes in the Science folder in the Student Resources Folder.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Having covered terminology, parts of a map, and map types this past week, we will be digging into reading maps. Our focus this week will be on longitude and latitude and using the “global grid” to find locations on a map.