November 18 - 30, 2019

Dear Parents,

 Thank you for reading the newsletter!  As we are approaching Thanksgiving I would just like you to know how grateful I am for your scholar and the opportunity to be their teacher.

 Book Reports are due this week, they of course may always be turned in before the 21st.

 Notes from Mrs. Calandrino: 
 I have been enjoying your children immensely and watching them learn has been so much fun! We have worked our way through learning about birds, we built birds nest and experimented with different beaks. Starting this week we will be delving into the wonderful world of insects! We have been learning so much. 

 Curriculum News:

  • Literacy - New Words Study Words will be coming home today.  There will a Word Study Test on Tuesday before Thanksgiving.  We will finish Unit 2 this week and start CKLA Unit 4, Middle Ages of the Middle East.  During our Unit 2 the scholars have written an opinion essay on "Who They Would Rather Be in the Middle Ages".  
  • Math - Monday (11/18) lesson 4.11, practice division.  Tuesday (11/19) lesson 4.12 problem solving with division.  Wednesday (11/20) review for chapter 4.  Thursday (11/21) Chapter 4 test.  Friday (11/22) go over chapter 4 test, graph, introduction to Chapter 5.  Chapter 5 is on multiples, factors, and patterns.  Monday (11/25) lesson 5.1, model factors and square numbers.  Tuesday lesson 5.2, factors and divisibility.  So many of our scholars still do not know their times tables well enough to be fluent in their division, PLEASE work on these basic math facts at home.
  • Science - Scholars are working on a Bird research paper and finishing up their booklet.  Insects will be the next unit of study with Mrs. Calandrino.  Pictures are doing the BEAK Investigations and making NESTS outside.










Important Dates:
  • November 18-22, School Community Workers
  • November 21, Book Report due
  • November 26, Word Study Test
  • November 27 -29, Thanksgiving Break 🦃
  • November 28, Happy Thanksgiving!
  • December 2, Celebrate Tayson's 1/2 Birthday!
  • December 5, South Elementary Eagle Assembly
  • December 6, Celebrate Tace's 1/2 Birthday!
  • December 9, Mrs. Calandrino's last day
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November 4 - 15, 2019

Dear Parents,

 Hello and welcome to a new month of learning!  

 I assigned a new book report last week, scholars are to read a battle book, pick a character and write a letter to the class from the characters perspective.  All the directions went home last week.

 Our field trip to Frontier Homestead State Park was a great learning experience and a beautiful day!










Red Ribbon Week!  Running Achievement, Police Dog Assembly, Reading Lunch Club and Halloween!








 Curriculum News:

  • Literacy - New Word Study words went home on Thursday and the next test will be November 15th.  Scholars also have an activity to do with their words, they have two weeks to complete the assignment during Daily 5 time.  We are still in Unit 2 of CKLA, the Middle Ages.  Our next writing assignment will be an informational essay on a person from the Middle Ages.
  • Math - We finished Chapter 3, we will be graphing the test in Data Binders, taking a 10 question quiz for NBT.5, graphing that and starting Chapter 4.  Chapter 4 is on Division.  Scholars will be learning more than one strategy to solve a division problem and we will be encouraging the scholars to pick the strategy that works best for them.  Again, knowing times tables helps so much!  Please continue to practice at home.  Lessons: 4.1 Estimate Quotients using Multiples, 4.2 Remainders, 4.3 Remainders, 4.4 Divide 10's, 100's, 1000's, 4.5 Estimate Quotients using Compatible Numbers, 4.6 Division and Distributive Property, Mid-Chapter Check Point, 4.7 Divide using Repeated Subtraction, 4.8 Divide using Partial Products, 4.9 Division with Regrouping, 4.10 Place the First Digit.
  • Science - Scholars have been learning about Fish, they will finish up with Fish this week and move onto Birds!
Important Dates:
  • November 7, I will be at Training in the morning.  We are so lucky to have Mrs. Calandrino in our class!!
  • November 7, South Elementary Eagles Assembly
  • November 8, Happy Birthday to Ruby!🎂
  • November 11, Veteran's Day (and my son, Kanyon's Birthday)
  • November 11, Veteran's Day Assembly
  • November 13, I will be at a training in the morning.
  • November 14, My daughter, Miranda's Birthday 
  • November 18-22, School Community Workers (hall monitors, lunch workers, flag duty)
  • November 21, Book Report Due
  • November 27 - December 1, Thanksgiving Break
  • November 28, Happy Thanksgiving!🦃
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