Odds and Ends
The students will celebrate Halloween in our classroom during the afternoon on Wednesday, October 31st. If you would like to participate, your child can bring a costume to school to change into. It must be a costume your child can change into by themselves. The Prairieview Halloween Parade will be starting around 1:15pm.
Independent Reading Folders: Just a reminder...if your child reads from a text book at night for homework, those minutes can count towards the nightly goal of 20 minutes of reading, written down in the independent reading folder. Keep up the good work! Our next reading party will be Thursday, November 8th. Keep Reading!
Thank you to those of you who have been donating prizes to our classroom prize bin. The students have been working hard to earn goodie tickets to pick from our new prizes. They are always appreciated!
Upcoming Events:
*Mon. 10/22: Social Studies: Hemispheres Quiz
*Fri. 10/26: Reading: Monthly Book Project report due: Advertise A Book poster
Spelling: Review Week Test
Math: Chapter 1 Test
Character Counts Assembly
SPIRIT DAY: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26th: WEAR YOUR SLIPPERS TO SCHOOL!
Photo Retakes will be on October 30th. Please send in your photo packet if you want retakes. Thank you.
Math: Thank you to the Imgruet, Sarros, and Wascher family for donating supplies for our classroom store. We really appreciate your generousity! In math class, we are in the money
=) We are working on counting back change. This is a great opportunity for your child to get some real world experience while shopping or looking at sale ads at home. Get out your change and let your child work with making change from $1-$5. I sent home a great website for your child to play with to work on their money skills. It is on http://www.gamequarium.com/. Click on 3-6th grade math, then try out the games Money Drills, Change Maker, and Working with Money. We will be going to the computer lab next week to play these games. The chapter 1 test will be on Friday, October 26th. A study guide will be sent home on Monday. We will have the Carlstrom Classroom store on Wed.
=) We are working on counting back change. This is a great opportunity for your child to get some real world experience while shopping or looking at sale ads at home. Get out your change and let your child work with making change from $1-$5. I sent home a great website for your child to play with to work on their money skills. It is on http://www.gamequarium.com/. Click on 3-6th grade math, then try out the games Money Drills, Change Maker, and Working with Money. We will be going to the computer lab next week to play these games. The chapter 1 test will be on Friday, October 26th. A study guide will be sent home on Monday. We will have the Carlstrom Classroom store on Wed. Science: We will continue to learn about health and nutrition. We are going to learn about 
excercise, germs, and helpful and harmful drugs. This will give us some good background information as we get ready to visit Robert Crown on Wednesday, Oct. 31st. If you have not yet sent in your child's permission slip, please do that on Monday. Thank you!
excercise, germs, and helpful and harmful drugs. This will give us some good background information as we get ready to visit Robert Crown on Wednesday, Oct. 31st. If you have not yet sent in your child's permission slip, please do that on Monday. Thank you!Social Studies: We are wrapping up our map skills unit. We will have a quiz covering hemispheres, North and South pole, Equator, and Prime Meridian on Monday. Please use the study guide to help your child prepare. Our next unit will be on different communities, starting with El Paso, Texas.
Spelling: Next week will be our review unit, where the students will review the rules and words of the previous spelling lists. There will be no pre test and no list of words to study will be sent home. The students are responsible to know the spelling rules we have learned for the past 7 weeks. We will take a sample test on Wednesday so your child can practice with this different test format. It involves them reading 4 words and choosing which word is spelled incorrectly. The test will be on Friday.
Reading: The students are enjoying reading their non-fiction stories about animals. They will continue to work on the posters with their partners on Monday. They will begin an animal story on their own on Tuesday. This story will be taken for a grade. You can look in their reading folders to see a sample of what the stories look like. We will spend the rest of the week practicing reading fluency with poetry and sharing our book posters on Friday. The next monthly book project assignment will be introduced this week as well.
English: Our spooky haunted house descriptive paragraphs are turning out great! We are learning how to use varied sentence starters to make the story interesting for others to read. Your child may have to finish their rough drafts over the weekend. I will be taking a grade on their "work in progress". We will be working on our final drafts on Monday. The students are also having an opportunity to have an individual conference with me during our writing workshop as we talk about their strengths in writing and what we are going to work to improve. Our next unit will be nouns.
Have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy the fall weather!!
Miss Carlstrom
