Odds and Ends:
Zoo Field Trip: A special thanks to Mrs. Kenyeri, Mrs. McCarthy, Mrs.Gasmen, Mrs. Edie, and Mrs. Zervas for chaperoning our field trip to the zoo on Tuesday. We had a great day watching the gorillas and many other animals as we made connections with what we have been learning in ELA and science. Please enjoy the pictures:
Zoo Field Trip: A special thanks to Mrs. Kenyeri, Mrs. McCarthy, Mrs.Gasmen, Mrs. Edie, and Mrs. Zervas for chaperoning our field trip to the zoo on Tuesday. We had a great day watching the gorillas and many other animals as we made connections with what we have been learning in ELA and science. Please enjoy the pictures:
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| Getting ready to go into Tropic World |
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| Comparing our hands to that of a gorilla. |
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| Filling out our ethograms |
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| A silverback, just like Ivan! |
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| The mother feeding the baby kale. |
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| Mother and baby! |
* Fall Conferences: It has been great to meet with some parents this week. I am looking forward to conferences next week. Please contact me if you haven't selected a time slot yet! Thank you!
*Halloween Parade and Party: Our Halloween classroom party will be Fri. 10/31. The parade will be from 1:15-1:30, with the party following afterwards. Your child may bring a costume to school Fri (no weapons or violent costumes, please). They will be changing into their costume for the party. Please make sure your child can get into the costume on their own and that they can wear the costume over their clothes. Thank you for your help!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Mon. 10/27: Reading: Pumpkins Due
*Thurs. 10/30: Spelling: Test
* Fri. 10/31: Happy Halloween
Reading: October Reading Calendars due
Halloween Party and Parade
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK:
*Reading: Your child's character pumpkin is due Mon. 10/27. This is a pumpkin decorated to look like a character from the good fit book your child chose and has been recording in their pumpkin reading log. We will work on writing our character "commercial" about our pumpkins and will be proudly displaying them in the IMC pumpkin patch!
Also, your child's October reading calendar is due Fri. 10/31. They will receive a new reading calendar for November this week.
*English: We are busy working on our argumentative and descriptive haunted house paragraphs. We will finish them up next week. We are also working on building our academic vocabulary with word of the day. We are on week 3.
*Spelling: We will have a spook-tacular spelling week with some Halloween words. Due to Halloween, homework and the test will be on Thursday. There is no pretest for this week's words.
*Social Studies: We began our unit on communities as we study the history of Downers Grove. Your child will learn about the founder, Pierce Downer, and its first inhabitants, the Potowatomi Indians.
*Science: We will begin our ch. 9 unit on the water cycle next week.
*Math: We are busy adding greater numbers as we learn to regroup and show our work with models (base 10 blocks) and using an expanded algorithm (where we break apart the number by hundreds, tens, and ones and get 3 smaller sums and then add them together for the final, total sum). We will continue ch. 3 next week as we look at subtraction, too. Keep practicing facts at home...timed tests for a grade will be announced soon!
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Olsen
