Weekly Update

  Hi Everyone!

I hope your week went well and that you have some fun plans for this long weekend. Once again, I will fill mine with baseball! My son Darius (12 years old) is pitching in a tournament tomorrow at my old High School! How cool is it that 20 something years later, my son is going to be pitching on the same field I hung out on so many years ago?! Thank you for letting me share my excitement with you! Below is a quick look at our week ahead…

Tiger Rising Permission Slip:

We have wrapped up our story Tiger Rising. The movie just came out this past January. We would like to watch it in class as a celebration for all their hard work throughout the book. It is rated PG, so please fill out the permission slip to give them permission to watch it. If you would rather them not read it, I can make other arrangements for them to visit the library or another classroom during the movie time. 

No School:

There is no school Monday, October 10th due to a holiday. 

Fall Conferences:

As we head toward the conclusion of the 1st quarter, I would like to meet with each family for a conference to go over student progress, and see how distance learning is going for everyone. These meetings will take place either in person or virtually through Google Meet. Fall conferences will take place the last  two weeks of October. I will have several options available, and sign ups will be scheduled through a Google Sheet I made. Please click HERE to sign up for a 15 minute conference. If none of these days or times work for you, please reach out and let me know. We will work together to find a time that will work with both of our schedules. 

Science:

We will begin our first science unit Virginia's Natural Resources and The Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This chapter will tie into our next VA Studies chapter nicely as it will hopefully help them understand how and why the English Settlers settled where they did (it was due to the vast resources they had access to!). The students have been taking SO many tests lately, so I am not going to be giving them an end of unit assessment on this topic. This unit will not have a study guide or final assessment. Grades will be based on their in class summatives and classwork. 

 

Recess Equipment:

We are running low on recess equipment. If you find yourself cleaning out your garage, please consider donating any extra balls, jump ropes, or outdoor toys/ games to our class. All we have at the moment is a basketball.

 

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

• Writing:  We will set up Writer’s Workshop, our writer’s notebook and talk about what makes a good writer.

 

• Math:  We will work on estimating sums and solve problems to see if our estimates are reasonable. 

 

• Science:  We will talk about watersheds and Virginia’s natural resources (Raw materials).