Week of September 29th

Dear Parents,
We have some fun things coming up in the next few weeks.  Here's the run down:

Math
We will be spending the majority of the week working on fractions.  Today we started by working with Hershey's chocolate bars (which the kids hated of course).  The rest of the week you will be seeing math papers that look a little different from the normal ones.

Reading
We are reading a play in our book this week and working hard on using our voice inflections correctly.  The kids are going to be paired up to work on presenting a small reader's theater.  We'll be using the ipad voice recorder to create a final project for the week.  Maybe read some to kids and use your best pirate voice to help them practice voice inflections at home.

Social Studies
Mr. Fishburn and I paired the kids up and had them working on a webquest about maps and globes.  If they finished in class today, they have nothing to bring home.  If they didn't finish today, they will need to complete the webquest at home and bring it back on Friday.  They should have a paper copy in their Social Studies binder and electronic copy waiting for them in their google drive.  You can log into their google accounts and home by following these directions.
1. go to www.google.com
2. Click sign in and use their student email and password (taped to the inside of their planner).
3. Find their google drive and open the document called Maps and Globes Webquest.

They should be able to find everything they need from here.

Field Trips
I am finalizing getting our first field trips confirmed.  We will be having 2 of them before Thanksgiving, one to Stuckmeyer Farms and the other to the Daniel Boone Home.  We'd love for you to join us if you can.  I'll send out the dates as soon as they are confirmed.