Mrs. Hickson's Class

**Both grades with be taking the grade specific, required District Common Assessment in Social Studies on Nov. 3rd. You will receive the study guide tomorrow so you can review at home while we finish the units.

**Don’t forget Spelling City is updated each week with our new list for each grade. please take advantage of this wonderful resource.

**You should be reading for a least 20 minutes each night!!

**You should be practicing your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts!! They should be automatic. No thinking, counting on fingers, etc.

**Third graders- watch the Math Antics subtraction video if you have time.

Lindbergh Elementary School
Leader in Me Parent Information Night!
Thursday October 20, 2016
6:30p.m. – Lindbergh Auditorium
Come learn about the 7 Habits
School age students are welcome to do activities in Media Center

The students in Room 204 all entered this contest!!!! We have been working hard on our pieces and are crossing our fingers that we have a winner.

Writing Contest Theme: The Importance of Family and Helping Others
Christopher Paul Curtis’s book, Bud, Not Buddy, highlights the importance of family and helping others. We invite students to write a personal narrative, poem, or essay related to the importance of family. We also encourage students to write about personal family stories and memories.
If students do not want to write about a personal experience, they may write about someone they know, make up characters, etc.

Awards are given to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for each of the grades along with one grand prize winner. Students who win awards will be invited to read their entries at the Nov. 12th festival.

FREE!! Young Authors’ Festival, Saturday, November 12, 2016 FREE!!
Everyone is invited to attend the Young Authors’ Festival on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Mardigian Library.
Christopher Paul Curtis, Michigan author and Newbery Medal winner, is the special guest speaker. The event also includes fun breakout sessions for children to develop their writing and reading skills, and for adults to learn tips for supporting their children’s literacy development.
The Festival is FREE and open to the public. Registration begins Monday, Oct. 10, 2016.

For more details, see the event’s website: https://library.umd.umich.edu/yaf

Directions to the campus are at: https://umdearborn.edu/maps_directions/

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Technology Department

–Watch D.O.G.S. Pizza Night,
Tuesday, October 11th, 6-7:30 PM,
in the cafeteria

–Half-Day for students,
Friday, October 14th, 11:45 AM dismissal

Multiplication baseball was a hit during math workshop today!!

The following items should have come home in the last week or so. If any of them have not….please ask your student about them.

**Corrected and graded math tests-these were handed out on Friday.
**Book project sheet-Due Oct. 17-these went home last week.
**T-shirt order sent home 10/3 is due this Friday.
**Field trip permission slips sent home 10/3 are due by 10/9.
**Raffle tickets sent home 10/3. Due 10/28.

*****MISSING*******
A student is missing two blue cooler-style lunch boxes. Please keep an eye out for them.

PEACE DAY ASSEMBLY!!!!!

Pinwheels for Peace!!!

What happens when you combine a 3rd grade motion unit with a 4th grade energy unit?

Our “sweet spot” Champs!!

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day!

Students will take a math test and will also finish their district writing prompt, which we started today.

Dynamath is due. This was assigned at the beginning of the month.

It is also popcorn day so don’t forget your quarters!!

And last but not least it is the first Bingo for Books of the year!!

A book project was assigned today. We had a class discussion about the project. The students were shown a sample book project. The book project is due Oct. 17.

There is a Math test Friday for all students.

4th grade- Unit 2.
3rd grade- Unit 1.