I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. This is a busy week in room 30 and at Nowlin. We have our Fall Fest coming up on Friday. Today the flyers and tickets for each student to enter Fall Fest will be coming home. Towards the end of the week, a Sign Up Genius will go out if anyone would like to donate to our Mad Scientist STEAM Halloween party. We don’t do a big party on Halloween but the day’s lessons will all be STEAM and Halloween related. Watch for that on Dojo. Here is a note about Fall Fest from the PTA:

Please take time to sign up for our Fall Fest!  We are in need of help with donations as well as physical help
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050845ACAD22A1F85-fall
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050845ACAD22A1F85-fall1
Areas of greatest need: Concessions from 6-7 and 7-7:45Ticket sales 7-8Games and clean-up  
Donations needed:candy for trick-or-treatingfood donations for selling
Older siblings can help as well!!  Many students in middle school and high school need service hours for different groups.  Sign them up!  The PTA will be happy to supply them with documented hours. 

This week:

Math- We are launching Module 3 of math. This focuses on area, perimeter and patterns in multiplication. Students recall of multiplication facts from 3rd grade will be very important during this unit. I encourage students to continue practicing their fact fluency on Mobymax fact practice or Freckle fact practice. Please check out the parent information sheet on Module 3- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SRRvKgfgWJKpaGNdkG6_c17OdtltX1rs/view?usp=sharing

Spelling: https://quizlet.com/_3y8qu3

Writing: we are publishing our Halloween Opinion pieces and will begin looking at the features of a tall tale and will be writing our own tall tales.

Reading: We are working on commonly confused words and the meaning of apostrophes to show ownership. We are also looking at the text features of informational text and working on a scavenger hunt. Lastly, book groups with individual reading strategies and 25 minutes each night of reading will continue.

Science: we are starting to look more at the types of waves and how energy from the first part of the unit can move or be transferred.

Social Studies: This week we are wrapping up our regions flapbook and will be starting to write an informational text about one specific region. The students will be collaborating with other students on a project that will include our text features from reading. This will be completed in class.

Have a great week!