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Casto Newsletter O C T . 2 - 8 , 2 0 1 4
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rachel.casto@jessamine.kyschools.us
Reading Workshop: Monday we had a really fun lesson about Buffalo Chips. I’d be surprised if your student didn’t come home and tell you about what they learned from this “gross” lesson! Since then we have started reading The Long Winter. This is a really challenging book, mostly because of the vocabulary, but the students are doing a wonderful job reading each chapter. We are working on summarizing, determining theme, and using context clues. Math: This week we worked hard on multiplication, using Partial Products and the Box Method. Students have been doing awesome with this! Please continue to practice those multiplication facts at home. Next week, we will begin the second part of Unit 3àdivision! We will be using a method called Partial Quotients where we find parts of the quotient (answer) at a time. Writing Workshop: This week we started by organizing our character, setting, plot (beginning, middle, end), problem, solution, and theme. The rest of the week we have been drafting the first version of our pieces. We are peer editing along the way as long as conferring with Ms. Thompson. Science: We have been discussing weathering and erosion as we kicked off our Unit 2. Our main focus has been on mechanical weathering, which is when a rock is broken down physically (by ice, water, animals, plants, glaciers, wind, or heat). Next week we will explore chemical weathering.
What’s to come… Specials
Notes In this envelope you can find our Unit 2 Math tests. Next week, Unit 1 Science tests will come home. Please always review
returned tests with your child. It helps to discuss and correct
incorrect answers.
Tomorrow-SPANISH Monday-TECH/LIBRARY
Tuesday- ART Wednesday- PE
Thursday- MUSIC
Hispanic Heritage Night Our class has learned a special dance that they can perform at Hispanic Heritage Night. This
will take place at Brookside Elem. on Oct. 9 (5:30-7:30). There is more information on the flier in
this envelope.
SAVE THE DATE
TOMORROW—4H meeting (We will talk about
our speeches.) Oct. 9—Hispanic Heritage
Night (BES)
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