Reading 

Essential Question this week- How do landmarks help us understand our country's story?

Last week we read the stories, "A Natural Beauty" and "A Mountain of History".  These are 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. We also worked on simple and compound sentences. 

This week we are working out of our Storyworks magazine. 

Pumpkin Book Reports This year we will be doing our Pumpkin Book reports again. A packet came home on Monday.  Please read through it with your child. 

Real pumpkins may be used, but absolutely NO CARVING please. 

Math This week we will begin Topic 4 We have been learning about how division works and working with dividing numbers by using multiplication to help us.  Example- what times 4 equals 28.

PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE SIGN-UP

Teacher conference are October 12th night and October 13th, day. Mrs. Isaly-Johns sent out an email how to sign up a couple weeks ago.

Wed. Oct 12 virtual conference times will be offered from 4-5:40pm, in-person slots will be from 6-7:40pm.

Thurs. Oct 13 in-person time slots will be offered from 8-11:40am, virtual time slots 12-2:40pm.

I will be sending out a Zoom link this week for those that signed up for a virtual conference. 

 Important Dates...

October 12th - Evening Conferences
October 13th - NO SCHOOL; Conferences
October 14th - NO SCHOOL - NEOEA Day
October 18th and 19th- Third Grade State tests.                                                                  October 24th-Book fair @2:40-3:00                                                                                     October 28th- End of First Quarter                                                                                       October 31st- Halloween Celebration. More information to follow.

October 28th- Pumpkin Book Reports due. Packet sent home On Monday, October 3rd. 

November 7th- No School, Teacher Inservice.                                                                  November 10th-Pizza Box Night                                                                                       November 15th- Library Field Trip                                                                                    November 23rd-25th-Thanksgiving break.