Week of Oct 5-9

Good evening parents.  A few reminders this week.  We have picture day on Tuesday, October 6th.  Also, for anyone returning book orders from Scholastic, please have them returned by Friday, Oct 9th, as I would like to make sure the order gets put in this weekend.  I want the books to arrive in time for Halloween.  Also, Thanksgiving Monday, Oct 12th is a holiday, as well as Tuesday, Oct 13th, a PD day, there is no school.

Tuesday I am also sending home reading logs for home reading.  All the info that you need will be in the duotangs.  The reading logs stay at home until 1 hour of reading has been completed. I will check it off and return it home.

When I send home the spelling test booklets, please return them as soon as possible as we need them to write the next spelling test.

Language Arts

Writing:

Our focus this week on writing is making sure we are writing a complete sentence.  Sentences must have 4 things to be considered complete. 1. An upper case letter at the beginning. 2. Punctuation (A period) at the end.  3. A subject (Who/What) 4. A predicate (doing/describing).  When I look at the students writing I am looking for punctuation and capitalization, as well. do they have a subject and a predicate.  I let the students look for those things if I ask them if they are missing something from their sentence so they can first attempt to self correct.  

Math

We are looking at increasing patterns this week in math.  An increasing pattern is a pattern that grows.  In order for it to be considered a pattern it must follow a "Pattern rule"  The rule must be followed each time you ad a new element.  2   5   8   11   14   is an increasing pattern.  The pattern rule is "add 3".     O        O        O         O           This is also an increasing pattern. The rule is to add

                                   OO      OO       OO            a row underneath the previous row that is 1 more.

                                             OOO    OOO

                                                       OOOO

Social Studies

We will be writing our mapping test this week and beginning Unit 1, Looking at places.  We will be looking at 3 different communities in Canada that are all different in their own way.  We will look at things like geography, climate/weather, natural resources, and location. 

I hope everyone has a great week and a fantastic Thanksgiving break!

Mr. Aasen