SCHOLASTIC ORDER

I will be placing a book order next weekend if you would like to order books for your children.  Please following the link on our blog to get you to the site.  I noticed some fun Halloween ones this month.  I also attached a coupon to an order form I sent home on Friday.

Language Arts- Essential Question this week- How do landmarks help us understand our country's story?
This week we read the stories, "A Natural Beauty" and "A Mountain of History".  These were Expository texts which means that it gives the reader facts and information about a social studies topic.  It also includes features such as photographs, captions, sidebars, and maps.  
Within these stories we learned interesting facts about many monuments and landmarks that we find in the United States and what they mean to our country and how they helped to form our country's story.  We worked on Main idea and details within the texts and wrote about what the Grand Canyon is.  
We also worked on simple and compound sentences and spelling long o words.

This next week is our sixth week in this unit.  Every six weeks we have a review week which means that we will not have spelling those weeks or regular stories.  We will be working on finishing up our writing that we have been working on throughout this unit and practicing skills that we have learned so far.

Math- This week we will be beginning Topic 4, Using Multiplication to divide:division facts.  They will be learning how to Multiplication and division are related and practice dividing with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. 

A few more things...
    This week kids only have school Mon-Wed because of conferences and NEOEA day on Friday.  If you didn't already signup for a conference and still plan on doing so, I have times available on Thursday still.  If those days do not work for you and you would like a conference please let me know and we can figure out another time for you to come in.  

     Our completion for Box Tops is ending this week.  If you have any lying around at home, please send them in by Wednesday.

Have great week, see you at conferences.