10/12/15 Newsletter

Upcoming Events: 10/13- PTO Meeting 6:30pm at the Superintendent's Building 10/16-End of quarter (Last day for AR this quarter) 10/20-Parent Teacher Conferences 3:15-6:00pm 10/22-Parent Teacher Conferences 1:00-6:00pm 10/23 and 10/26-NO SCHOOL On Tuesday, October 13 at 9:00am we will be going to Nelson Hart Park to watch the big top be raised for the circus. Mrs. Shultz’s classroom is available from 7:20 am to 7:50 am Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Students who need extra reading time or help with homework are welcome.	Attention Parents: *In red folders today, you will find an envelope with the school’s return address. This envelope will eventually include a letter to a veteran and an invitation to our assembly. If you know of a veteran to whom you would like a note and invite sent, please return this envelope with his or her address on it. If you do not know of someone--no worries, we have names and addresses here we can send one along to--just please try to return the blank envelope. Thanks! *If you have any photos of veterans you would like to share with us for our Veteran’s Day slideshow, please send them with your student in an envelope so that we can return it to you. You may also email your photo to nsiders@stjschools.org.
Science:      We will continue working through our unit over Force, Motion, & Simple Machines.  This week we will be learning more about incline planes and levers.   Students will be doing experiments to see how the force and distance change when using these two simple machines compared to using no simple machine.      Students will have an edmodo.com quiz this Friday covering many of the topics from this week as well as some review questions from previous weeks.  The items students need to know for the weekly quiz can be found by clicking the “Science” tab on my class website at nsiders.weebly.com      The 6 steps of the scientific method will be on every quiz and test the entire year, please study these with your child so they are prepared.  Students who are still unable to correctly order the six steps will begin practicing them during Fun Friday until they are able to complete this task. **You can also get the weekly newsletter by         going to…...nsiders.weebly.com            …...and clicking the Newsletter Tab	Math: This week in Math students will practice all the different ways to write decimal numbers as well as review decimal place value. This is the last week of the quarter so keep a look out for missing assignments to come home to be completed and returned. Homework this week is a review of place value. It will be due on Thursday, October 15. Students and Parents can visit the website www.learnzillion.com to learn more. Just type in the standard 5.NBT.2  to explore what we’re doing this week! Congratulations to Layne Clayton and Kenzie Gardner from Mrs. Watson’s class, Broc L., Colton S., Jonathan s., Payton P., Aiden M., Mariana S., Lydia M., Donovan C., Jordan C., Tessa C., Abigail M., John S., Michael D., Ricky D., and Nate S. from Mrs. Cornelius’ class for Completing ALL Multiplication Rocket Facts
ELA information on the back.
ELA: Engelbrecht: Language: Conjunctions and prepositions Reading: We will be reading Leonardo Beautiful Dreamer and focusing comparing and contrasting two texts and objective and subjective point of view. Reading logs due Monday! They are worth 5 points. Writing: Informational writing graphic organizer and rough draft. AR: Students should be at or around 100% by Friday. I have been sending home an AR update in Monday folders for the last couple of weeks. The highlighted part is the comprehension (should be above 80%) and the percentage is their goal. Sandusky: Reading Logs due Friday, with parent signature. For reading this week we are working on informational main idea and supporting details. We will be focusing on Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance Period during these lessons. Language: Perfect Tense, this concept is pretty difficult for kids to master so we will be taking ‘baby steps’ and doing several charts to help with the introduction. Sign up for Class Dojo if you haven’t yet! It’s a wonderful means of communication! Shultz: Book logs and extra credit this week! Extra credit is for language. Book logs are NOT extra credit--they are worth 5 points a week. Reading and Language: We are reviewing all of our Unit 1 standards this week as we finish Wonder. We will be keeping a reflections journal which will allow us to practice through the remainder of the book. AR: Students should be at 100% of their goals this week. Read Aloud: We are finishing Wonder this week and next. STAR testing will be on Tuesday. Please try to be here so that you do not miss class to makeup the test!

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Week 4

	PE 1	Art	Music1	PE 2	Computers	Music 2
Monday	Shultz	Sandusky	Engelbrecht	Watson	Cornelius	Siders
Tuesday	Sandusky	Engelbrecht	Watson	Cornelius	Siders	Shultz
Wednesday	Engelbrecht	Watson	Cornelius	Siders	Shultz	Sandusky
Thursday	Watson	Cornelius	Siders	Shultz	Sandusky	Engelbrecht
Friday	Cornelius	Siders	Shultz	Sandusky	Engelbrecht	Watson