Week of October 17th

Happenings in

Our Learning
Reading: Students will continue to read excerpts from their
books to me during their independent reading time. In
addition to the prompts I gave out at student-led conferences,
please check out this link that leads to a great resource for
reading with your child. We are going more in depth about
authors style and purpose, and how authors reveal
themselves through their stories. Theme is another concept
you can discuss with your child when he/she reads each night.
Writing: Students worked to identify the complete subject and
complete predicate of sentences. We will be taking a closer
look at mentor sentences next week to see what we notice in
terms of parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, style,
and other grammatical features. We tied math in with writing
as students wrote extended responses about how they define
division.
Math: We discussed the relationship between multiplication
and division through fact families, inverse operations,
factoring, and arrays. Students enthusiastically created their
own numberless word problems for the first time. We will
learn and share strategies for long division this coming week.
Social Studies: Students learned about Archaic Indians in
Texas as an introduction to our Native American unit.
Science: After letting our samples of salt water sit out over the
weekend, students observed that the water had evaporated
and the salt remained. We talked about how all solutions are
mixtures, but not all mixtures are solutions. The class also used
Stemcopedia to gain additional information about mixtures
and solutions.

Spice World
Additional Notes
This Tuesday we will have our first
Principals Pride assembly at 8AM.
Congrats to our initial group of
honorees, being acknowledged for the
following attributes:
Sebastian Caring
Shreyus Principled
Austin Principled
Tony Courageous
Kaavya Thinker
Please email Ms. Tess if you know your
child will not be attending the music
performance on Thursday!
Students were super sweet and polite
as they introduced my parents to their
class and taught them how to play
multiplication and division games they
created. Pictures from this event and
the past week will be added to my
website soon!

Practice at Home
Students need to have their
multiplication facts through 12
mastered. Please practice listing
multiples of 1-12. This will continue to
be our morning entry password.

This week we are focusing on

division. If necessary, please make
sure your child understands how to
perform long division using the
standard algorithm.

Upcoming Events
Tuesday, October 25 3rd-5th Grade Principals' Pride @ 8:00AM
Wednesday, October 26 Early Release Day (All students are dismissed at 12PM.)
Thursday, October 27 Fourth Grade Musical Performance
Students need to be at Spicewood at 5:30