Classroom News for the Week of September 29th

News and Upcoming Events: 

10/10 Field Trip to Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens
Chaperones:

• Susanne Foldes
• Serena Kojimoto
• Nicole Dow
• Stephanie Kemp

11/12 Field Trip to Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Chaperones:

• Belina David
• Charles Keagle
• Kai Ti Wang Olsen
• Rachel Livingston

10/15 Social Studies Project due 
(We discussed this project at length on Friday. Students are bringing directions home on Monday 9/29. No other social studies homework will be assigned during this period.)

Reminders:

* Tardies - Please make sure your child is at school and in line by the 8:06 bell. We try to start the school day at 8:11 promptly. Thank you for your help!

* Please check your child's Homework Log nightly and sign or initial after the work has been completed. Remind your child that completed homework and the HW log are due in class daily. 

What's Going On This Week In Class:

Second Step:

Lesson 3: Being Assertive. Please turn "Home Practice"signed by an adult by Friday each week.

Math: 

Multiplication and Division: Looking for a Pattern, Fact Families; Understanding Prime and Composite Numbers

Individualized Practice: Accelerated Math

Multiplication Madness (Fact Practice) 

Reading: 

Genre Genius: The students are making strong progress on reading books from different genres. Be sure to ask your child about his or her progress. We are about half way through the marking period.

Final Island Projects due this Friday (work done in class).

This week we will be reading informational article from Scholastic News (Summarizing, Finding the Main Idea)

Writer's Workshop: Unit 1 Personal Narratives

Writing Performance Task: Writing an opinion and using details from the text to support your opinion.

This week's mini-lessons focus on choosing a "seed idea" and developing strong leads in our writing.

Greek and Latin Roots:

Please study the meanings and spellings of these ten words. You will have a quiz on Friday. 
inter: between, among; tele = far, distance

1. telemarket
2. telescope
3. telephoto
4. televise
5. telethon
6. interior
7. intersection
8. international
9. interval
10. intermediate

Social Studies/Science:

Earth Science- Rocks and Minerals

Social Studies: Geography of California. 

Arts:

Theater: We have started to work on our play with Ms. Beret. This week we will be doing activities to help us picture the setting of our story.