Field Trip
Our Mexi-Carte Study Trip is coming up on 10/23. It's going to be an exciting study trip!
10:00-11:30 Mexi-Carte tour and activities
11:30-12:30 Play and picnic at Zilker Park
Writing
We will be using our creativity and our knowledge of bats to create our own “Diary of a Bat,” inspired by the “Diary of…” books by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss. We will continue to focus on writing in complete sentences, and varying our sentences to help our writing flow.
Reading
It’s pumpkin book report time! Last week, we sent an email with the information regarding this project. Students are going to begin the writing their book reports in class. Students will continue to focus on the elements of fiction, setting, character, problem, and solution. Students should have chosen a fiction book at home this past week that has a clear character, setting, problem, and solution. The book has to be a book the student has read. Students will not be reading the book in class, only doing the book report.
Please send the book to school by Monday, October 19th, so they can use it to complete their book report from Oct. 19-26 in class.
Your child will create the main character pumpkin at home. The pumpkin will be created to look like a character from their book! It is due on Tuesday, Oct. 27th.
Students will share their book report and pumpkin character at school, and then bring their pumpkin home on Friday, Oct. 30th.
We can’t wait to see the finished products!
Please remember to read 100 minutes a week at home. If students read 20 minutes at least 5 days a week, they will reach this goal. Challenge your child to use more than one strategy they’ve learned in class during their at home reading time.
Math
This week is going to be long as we move into our study of length. We will learn the importance of standardized measurements and why there is an inverse relationship between the size of the unit and number needed to measure an object. We will learn about the customary and metric systems. Using a ruler will become easy as we learn to measure objects in inches, centimeters, feet, yards, and meters. We will also determine the best unit of measurement to use for certain objects.
Social Studies:
This week we will study our family heritage and ancestry. Thank you for filling out the homework form so we can have a more detailed study of the heritage in our class. We will focus on map skills, comparing and contrasting, Dia de los Muertos cultural celebration, and Latin American language, spanish. Please send in a shoe box, colored tissue paper, and battery-lit votives for our Dia de los Muertos activities!
Science:
This week we will start to study patterns in the sky. The overall theme is that there are patterns to the activity we see in the sky with the moon, sun, stars and clouds. We will discuss what we see in the sky and then talk about what patterns we can recognize. This week we will really be focusing in on the moon and the pattern of change we see in the moon over time.
Some great websites to go to to continue your child’s science experience:
http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/space.htm
Question of the week: How many people have been to the moon? Why do you weigh less on the moon?
Reminders:
10/23 Field Trip
10/28 Early Release Day
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