News of the week: We have had a very busy week. Monday- No School, Tuesday- Playtime Poppy, Wednesday- Pizza Lunch, Thursday- just a normal day :), Friday- earned our brownie point reward and celebrated my birthday.
On Monday, we will be having our Halloween parade and party. Please do not send your child to school in their costume. They will have time to change into their outfit before their the parade starts. Mrs. Clark and I often split up the boys and girls to make it faster to change since the bathroom gets very busy.
During the parade, they are asking all parents to stay outside (unless it is raining). The hallways will be filled with kids trying to walk from classroom to classroom. We will walk out the back of Emerson (north doors) and go right to 17th Ave. We will then turn on 10th Ave and come back into the building through the front (south doors). If it is raining the parade will be held in the gym.
Our class party will begin after the parade. We will be enjoying some Halloween stories while eating a few treats. Then the class will be playing bingo with cards they created on Friday.
Math- We have finished our initial facts of multiplication. The class had a little stress when we discussed moving to division. This week though all the assessments for report cards, I assessed on their multiplication skills. Students that know and have started to memorize their facts will start multiplying by 2 and 3 digits. Students not as comfortable with their facts will begin a review session. I want to make sure these are well known by most students before continuing to division.
Reading- This week we read OPT:An Ilusionary Tale
by Arline and Joseph Baum. This selection is a royal fantasy of optical illusions, a jester leads readers through the kingdom of OPT. Often in rhyme, the jester's comments, directions, and questions guide the reader to discover the illusions hidden in the illustrations.
Text Talk- This week we read Picnic at Mudsock Meadow
by Patricia Polacco. In the book, no mater what William does, there is a girl named Hester who makes fun of him. When he is able to prove that Quicksand Bottoms is not haunted, but just has glowing swamp gas, Hester realizes that William is not so bad after all. Vocabulary words we discussed this week are bleak, eerie, legend, mortified, mischievous, and reveal.
Social Studies- This week the students took an open book quiz with what they have learned so far in Social Studies.
Mrs. Jodie Yuska
