Helpful Highlights
BOOK REPORT
The students did a great job on their Planning Page, for the Pumpkin Book Report. Teachers have reviewed, revised, and returned the Planning Page. Now, students can focus on the final copy. Remember to decorate the outside of the pumpkin, because the reports will be on display in our “Pumpkin Patch,” for all to enjoy! Final Book Report due on October 20th!
NEW VIRTUAL GRANDPARENTS / GRANDFRIENDS Day
When: Friday, October 23, for Lower and Middle School
What: A Special Video Recording - That afternoon, we will send out a heartwarming video recording from each division to their grandparents and grandfriends. Look for that to come via email and social media (Facebook and YouTube). If students are with their grandparents/friends that afternoon, they can watch it together. Or, if any grandparents live far off, they can still enjoy the message virtually.
Optional Early Dismissal: To allow for quality time with their grandparents and grandfriends, this day will be an optional half-day for LS + MS students. Grandparents and grandfriends are welcome to pick up students early from school for a special lunch or afternoon together off campus. (Students who stay will remain in their classrooms that afternoon and eat lunch per usual; Flipside will begin at the normal time that afternoon.) No hot lunch will be offered. Students who stay at school will need to pack a lunch.
Lower School Optional Early Dismissal | 11:15 a.m.
Middle School Optional Early Dismissal | 11:45 a.m.
Middle School Optional Early Dismissal | 11:45 a.m.
HOMECOMING WEEK: October 26 - 30
Monday - Movie Character Monday
Tuesday - Twin Day Tuesday
Wednesday - Wild West Wednesday
Thursday - Through the Years Thursday
Friday - Extreme Blue and White Day
Tuesday - Twin Day Tuesday
Wednesday - Wild West Wednesday
Thursday - Through the Years Thursday
Friday - Extreme Blue and White Day
Loving Learning
Bible - How God prepared a leader through Moses. We are discussing the beginning of Moses’ life and how God had a plan for him, even before he was born! God has a plan for each of us, too!!
Phonics / Spelling
Spelling Focus: sound of long e spelled ee, ea, ie, ey
Grammar / Creative Writing - We will begin Ch. 4, with the study of Nouns. We will identify and categorize nouns. Topics include: defining singular and plural nouns, changing singular nouns to plural nouns, and changing nouns ending in ch, sh, s, x, or z to its plural by adding -es. We will also recognize and write nouns that form plurals by changing their spelling.
Reading - We continue our second unit of Foundations & Frameworks.
Comprehension Focus: Retelling
Pattern Statement: Oral restating requires organizing one’s thoughts.
Visual Tool: Flow Chart
SPECS Logs: Reader’s Response, Visual Tool, Reflection (Today, I learned…..)
Vocabulary: grooming, collide, soggy, tumbleweeds, canyon, souvenir, drooling, wick, whitecaps, muskrat
Math - We wrap up Unit 2. Students will generate equivalent names for numbers and write them in name-collection boxes. They will also skip count, add, and subtract to solve Frames-and-Arrows problems. On Thursday, 10/15, a review will come home for the TEST on Tuesday, 10/20!
Science - We will be reviewing for the test. The Habitats and Vertebrates Test is on Tuesday, October 13th! Next, we will begin learning about Life Cycles!
Save the Date
October 20 - Pumpkin Book Report Due
October 26 - 30 - Homecoming Week
November 1 - Daylight Savings Time Ends (Clocks “Fall” back one hour)
November 6 - End of Trimester 1
November 23 - 27 - Thanksgiving Break!
