Month: October 2015

Good afternoon families-

I wanted to share a cool event with you! Tonight at the Dearborn Historical Museum, on Brady, just off of Michigan Ave., there will be a Trick or Treat Event. The cost is $2 per child & is for children ages 3-10.

-Mrs. Brady

Social Studies Test Tomorrow! 🙂

Review here:

Do You Want to Be A Millionaire Regions Review

If you get a question wrong you have to start over 🙂 Hit the refresh button 

Here is the cool video that we watched in class last week: United States Video

Spelling Test tomorrow! 🙂 5 word work activities are due before you take your test 🙂

I hope to finish our pumpkin investigation tomorrow!

(click on image to enlarge)

Wednesday:

Math: 1) Study Guide      2) Line Plot worksheet if not completed in class

Reading: Read 40+ daily – School News was sent home, spend some time reading that!

Spelling: Word Work 3/5- 3 of the 5 Work Work tasks should be complete today. 5 are due on Friday before the spelling test

Handwriting: p.38-39 if not completed in class

Please see images below if you need assistance with your Social Studies Flip-book.

You should have the following completed upon arrival at school tomorrow:

1. “United States Regions” cover– colored & glued on to cover
2. “Untitled” map Regions of the United States– colored by region & glued on to middle top section
3. “Regions of the United States” – colored all the same color, layered on to the middle top section on top of the 1st regions map.
4. “Climates”– colored, filled out & glue to the bottom left flap.
5. “Dangers”– colored, filled out & glued to the bottom right flap.
6. “Water ways”– colored, filled out & glued on to the top right flap.

This is the example from the website (ours is not color coded like this):

This is an overview of our example:

Zoom in of the “Dangers”:

The cover

Overview of our book:

Please note that note all of my examples are colored. Your work should be colored 🙂 

If you need to see the pictures larger, click on the image.

We will be wrapping up our flip-book tomorrow by adding Landmarks, our snapshot pictures & the compass.

Don’t forget— spelling word work: you should have 2 out of 5 completed today. If you didn’t finish in class, you need to do it at home. 

*I will not be able to answer questions regarding the homework tonight, I have a personal appointment & I will not be on the blog. If you have a question, feel free to ask, however I will most likely not be able to answer in a timely fashion today. Try re-reading the directions above, or call a friend 🙂

We have all of the items we need for this week!!! Thank you all so much! Your kindness is amazing!!!!

-Mrs. Brady

We have a busy week ahead!

Math: Continuing our Unit on Base Ten, addition & subtracting with and without borrowing. Learning how to read and create a line plot. We will be taking our Math Assessment this week.

THANK YOU for the dice & playing card donations! Math centers are even more fun now!

Daily 5: Building our reading stamina. Continuing to Work on Writing, Read to Self, Read to Someone and practicing our Spelling Words during Word Work.

Writing: Finishing our opinion writing unit. Starting our informational unit with a focus on writing about U.S. Regions.

Science: Lots of fun hands on science this week! We are in need of many donations to help make our science experiments successful!

Social Studies: Wrapping up our Regions unit. We will be taking our common assessment this week.

> Students will show the ability to divide the U.S. into regions and explain why.

> Students will show the ability to identify which direction to travel when leaving from Michigan and going to a given location. Example: Which direction do you travel from Michigan to Alaska?

Spelling: Multisyllabic words – Long Vowels (i)

 flight, slight sigh, fright, bright, might, climb, twice, wildlife, mind, median, mode, data, maximum, minimum

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Monday: Picture Day!!! Students should dress for picture day & P.E. or bring a change of clothes for P.E. Students have a kicking test in P.E. on Monday.

Friday: Spelling Test (students must have 5 word work activities turned in to take their spelling test)

Halloween parade– students may bring costumes to change into after lunch at 2 PM. No bloody costumes and no weapons.

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Donations needed:

– 4 boxes of cornstarch for Science experiments starting Tuesday

– 1 package of food coloring for Science experiments starting Tuesday

– 1 small/medium container of vinegar for Science experiments starting Tuesday

– 4 boxes of baking soda for Science experiments starting Tuesday

– 1 box of borax power for Science experiments starting Tuesday

– 30 paper plates for Science. Must be paper plates, not Styrofoam.

– candy or pre-packaged treats (bagged pretzels, bagged Goldfish, fruit snacks, bagged Chez-Its) for Halloween on Friday

– 7 pumpkins for Science starting on Tuesday

No donations are required. Your contributions help make our classroom a fun place to learn!

From. Mrs. Suarez:

They need to be prepared for their kicking test. I’m not worried about jeans, but they need gym shoes. They also have to be able to kick, so if they wear a dress, they could change. They won’t be running on that day.  I’m flexible on that day, but it is a test day. The pic only is a chest/head shot.

I hope that helps.

Happy Friday!

We had a lot going on in class this week! I hope your students enjoyed the “Think Energy!” presentation that was given by DTE on Wednesday!

Students who did not complete the Social Studies study guide last night worked on it today during the school day. 

Weekend homework:

1. Incomplete work: students were sent home with a list of incomplete work today. The students were responsible for writing down their incomplete assignments as I read them to the students. They are also responsible for bringing home the incomplete assignments. Incomplete work packets for this week are due on Monday, 10/26 with a parent signature. 
2. Social Studies:   Read pages 60-64, answer questions 1-10 on p.64. Read pages 72-81, answer questions 1-3 on page 79

Picture Day is MONDAY!!! 10/26