A look at our week....

Thank you to all the families for making a VERY busy week successful!  Last week we accomplished a lot of learning in addition to many "extras".  

You can send money with your child through the end of the week for the book fair!

This week we are kicking off our month long read-a-thon with classroom Mystery Readers each day!  We are encouraging each child to sign in to our online read-a-thon to log reading minutes during the month of October.  We will have classroom incentives from time to time to encourage the students to be reading/discussing books/ and raising money for reading!  Please know this is a completely safe site, and students in no way will be connected to any other place on the internet, nor will they be able to discuss books with anyone other than classmates and myself!  If you have misplaced the login sheet that went home on Friday, please let me know so I can send the information home again!

I hope your Ancestor Tree project was a time of enjoyable learning and sharing about your family heritage.  I look forward to presentations this week for those who wish to share! (Grades are not affected if your child wishes to not share).

We are hoping to get to Calligraphy this week for Ancient China.  If you could bring in ONE PAINTBRUSH by Friday that would be wonderful!  (Watercolor size, not a wall paint brush!)

Fall Break is NEXT week!!!  This Friday, October 7th will be an early release day! 
I hope you enjoy a week of recharge and family time.  Please be sure to sign up for fall conferences if you have not done so.  I look forward to visiting with each of you after fall break!  School will resume on Wednesday, October 19th as a regular half-day.  I will be holding conferences the 17th, 18th, and 19th (after school).

Friday (and Thursday for those who are ready early) will be our 2nd Poem Recitation: 
                                                                                                       Something Told the Wild Geese
Please make sure your child is ready, we will complete all poems by Friday.

Here is a look at our learning this week:

Literature:  Short Stories from Ancient China (Ma Ling and the Magic Paintbrush!)
Grammar:  Prefix, Suffix, Parsing sentences (noun, verb, adjective, adverb)
Poetry:  Something told the Wild Geese
Math:  Measurement:  cm, inches, feet, yards, which unit of measurement would you use?, etc.
Science:  Magnetism
History:  Ancient China:  Confucius, Importance of Ancestors, Great Wall, Calligraphy (if we can get to that day!)