August 28

We did a science experiment on Thursday! We were learning about the scientific method this week. We put pepper in water and then added dish soap to see what would happen. Ask your child about the results!

 

Retro Bill came to visit our school this week! He talked about bullying and how students should always ask a teacher or adult for help if they are struggling with another student or anything in school. The students had a lot of fun laughing during this presentation. He even pulled Mrs. Setser up on stage!

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What we are learning in school:

Language Arts: This week we reviewed how to summarize a story. You can practice this at home by asking your child to tell you the key details from the book they read. We also reviewed story elements (character, setting, problem, solution, lesson) and how to synthesize (use background knowledge and what we just read to form new ideas).

We are working on personal narratives during our writing time! We have been learning the difference between a watermelon story (a big story) and a seed story (small moments). We practiced writing stories about small moments from our lives. We focused on adding details and descriptive words. We will continue to work on this next week.

Math: We continued to review place value, standard form, word form, and expanded form with numbers to 10,000. We learned how to compare numbers and put numbers in order from least to greatest. We will have a math test on Monday over chapter one in our math book. Please remind your child to study for our test.

Important Dates:

September 2 – Picture Day

September 7 – No school

September 11 – Midterms

October 13 – First grading period ends (reading incentive paper due)

October 20 & 21 – Parent Teacher Conferences

October 22 & 23 – Fall Break

ISTEP – Feb. 29-March 11

IREAD – March 14 – 18

ISTEP - April 18-May 6