It is Red Ribbon Week this week, and that means lots of fun learning, guest speakers, and special shows by Rusty! This is one of my favorite weeks of school! Real life learning...yep that is right up my alley. Here is the schedule for Monday.
Monday, Oct. 22:
*Bitterroot Spirit Day: “Saying No To Drugs is No
Sweat!”-Wear your sweats to school today!!! (Earn $50)
*DEA Agent Dunlap speaking to us about what Red
Ribbon Week is and the history behind it. He will also share how he goes
undercover to break up drug deals in our community. He will stress how
character is a huge part of his job.
*Dinner Table Discussion Question: Who is Enrique
“Kiki” Camarena and why do we have Red Ribbon Week?
I would like to add that if kids wear red with their sweats tomorrow, I will double their reward. Wearing red just helps us remember why we call it Red Ribbon Week!!!!
This week, we will also be having a couple of guest speakers from our NE region we are studying. I found one from Maine and one from New York. Kids will be able to question/answer them to find out how MT is different or similar to those regions. I like to do this to bring what they have been studying alive. We will finish our NE tour this week as well. Don't forget that the NE states and capital's test is THIS coming Friday. We have been studying in class, and will continue to do so this week. Please continue at home as well.
The water cycle unit in Science will also wind down this week. Hopefully, kids were able to work on their raindrop people over the long break. We will finish writing their stories for homework this week. Please continue to edit them each night with your child. Their final drafts will be written in class. Please have your child bring in their raindrop person on FRIDAY, but not before. We will have our final test next week on the water cycle. They should have brought home the practice test that we filled out together last week. I told them to read it as their bedtime story over and over again. Have you seen it? If so, write the word CYCLE in the planner for $20 tomorrow. We have done so many activities with this though that they really should have no problem passing this test if they have been paying attention in class. Study, study though.
VERY IMPORTANT: If your child brought home their water cycle story they were asked to redo it. Upon reading them on Friday, there were many that were rushing, not following the modeled example, too messy, or didn't make any sense. They were told that they needed to start completely over and complete the assignment for introduction and collection ONLY! No one should be evaporating, condensating, or precipitating yet!!! I pulled them aside and made sure that they understood my expectations and that they were to get it done over the break. If they come back without it, they know they will spend their freetime (recess) doing it. Please ask your child if they are one of the kids that needs to redo this. If so, they will have their science notebooks in their backpacks. Not sure...call or text me and I will tell you if they are one. Thanks!
VERY IMPORTANT: If your child brought home their water cycle story they were asked to redo it. Upon reading them on Friday, there were many that were rushing, not following the modeled example, too messy, or didn't make any sense. They were told that they needed to start completely over and complete the assignment for introduction and collection ONLY! No one should be evaporating, condensating, or precipitating yet!!! I pulled them aside and made sure that they understood my expectations and that they were to get it done over the break. If they come back without it, they know they will spend their freetime (recess) doing it. Please ask your child if they are one of the kids that needs to redo this. If so, they will have their science notebooks in their backpacks. Not sure...call or text me and I will tell you if they are one. Thanks!
In reading, we will finish up Boy in the Girl's Bathroom. We will then move into a small book on wildfires again. This book has tons of reading and language skills webbed into it that I am excited to teach the kids!!! Even figurative language will come back to haunt us! Yay!!!!!! Tis the time of year to be haunted!
In Math, we will begin multiplication. We will go straight into two digit by one digit. I am hope, hope, hoping that they all remember their basic facts! If not, this is going to be quite challenging for them. Yikes. Please pull out those flashcards, wipe off the dust, and practice them throughout the week. Thanks. As always, we will review all learned skills throughout the week.
As you can see, spelling words are back and new. We will have our normal test on Friday.
