October 15 - 22, 2018

Dear Parents,

The end of the term was on Friday, October 12th.  I'll send home 1st term progress reports on Wednesday, these are for you and no need to send back.

Today is the start of a new term, we got out the goals that scholars wrote with parents at SEP's and read over our goals.  This will be a great quarter!

Curriculum News:

• Literacy - We are reading about the Middle Ages in our CKLA unit 2.  Scholars will be writing an informational paragraph about Serfs of the Middle Ages.  We are working on the prefixes; un and non.  Parts of speech; nouns and adjectives.  Spelling groups will start on Thursday, individual spelling pattern words will come home that same day.  We will have a test in about 2 weeks for the words.  
• Math - Scholars have been practicing a few different methods/strategies to multiply 2-digit by 2-digit.  Scholars have learned how to use the partial products method, area model, regrouping, and lattice.  I would encourage you to encourage your scholar to use the method that works best for them.  Monday's lesson review.  Tuesday's lesson 3.7 problem solving.  Wednesday's lesson review.  Thursday we will test on Chapter 3.  Friday we will go over the test and graph test scores.  Chapter 4 will focus on dividing by 1-digit numbers.  Please keep working on times table facts at home.
• Science - Scholars have researched a Utah reptile and amphibian, they are now writing an informational paragraph.  This week scholars will participate in an investigation about birds, research a Utah bird, and understand about the unique adaptations that birds have.

Important Dates:

• October 12, End of 1st term
• October 15, Happy Birthday Ryan L!
• October 15, Guest speakers, Living Planet Aquarium
• October 19, Deadline for REFLECTIONS, the theme this year is "HEROES AROUND ME"
• October 22, Harvest Holiday, no school
• October 22, Happy Birthday Eli! (we will celebrate on Tuesday)
• October 25, Mystery Book Report due
• October 25, Red Ribbon Assembly
• October 31, Halloween!🎃
• November 1, Half day field trip to Frontier Homestead State Park.  We need 9 parent helpers for our grade level.  Parent helpers need to go to the State Park at 8:50, we will arrive by bus just after 9:00am.  After our time at the State Park we will walk to the City Park and will eat lunch there.  From there we will walk back to school for our afternoon classes.

Home Extension:

• No math videos this week unless you'd like your scholar to review the math concepts taught in Chapter 3, all videos are posted on previous newsletters.
• Times table practice!
• Daily reading and working on book report, bring in when finished and we will start sharing!

Pictures from the Living Planet Aquarium