Eliza

I Want to be a Chef

When I grow up I want to be a chef.  When I grow up I want to be a chef because it seems fun.  If I was a chef I would make pasta and pizza.  According to the article everything tastes better when you use olive oil, salt, pepper and herbs.  I hope I become a chef.  

Valynn

Being a Chef

When I am older I want to be a chef.  For dinner I would serve fries, chicken, rice, roast beef, pizza and macaroni.  For dinner drinks I would serve Sprite, milk, water, root beer, Coke and Dr. Pepper.  For breakfast I would serve pancakes, sausage, bacon, sunnyside up eggs, scrambled eggs, blueberry pancakes and hash browns.  For breakfast drinks I would serve milk, water, root beer and Sprite.  I want to be a chef really badly!

Heaven

Clean Pennies

Today in science we did two experiments.  Our second experiment was about cleaning pennies with coffee, vinegar or water.  So we put the pennies in a jar with coffee and vinegar.  I wonder if it will be shiny?  We are going to take the pennies out on Tuesday.

New Books for our classroom

Thank you so much for your orders with Scholastic books. We will do another order later this month. Here are all of the books that w were able to get with the classroom thanks to your orders!

Update from Ms. Luria

This week's homework link: October 3rd

Spelling list for this week: Spelling

Dear Families,

On Thursday of this coming week your child should wear light colored clothes that are easy to wash. They will be working with clay in art class! 

Weekly Volunteer times still available: 

• Tuesday between 10:45 - 11 to do writing conferences with students (I'll show you how to do that). 
• Tuesdays between 1:45 and 3 to do science experiments with students - help set up the experiment, help clean up and general help with the experiments
• Wednesday between 10 - 11 to either help with a reading group or do writing/reading conferences with students
• Fridays between 10 - 11 to either help with a reading group or do writing/reading conferences with students

This week's focus:

Reading-

*Three different book clubs finished their first book that we read together. Ask your child what book they are reading during book club time! 

*We practiced slowing down when we don't understand what we are reading.
*We read non-fiction pieces about businesses and practiced asking questions as we read text.

Writing-

*Students published their first paragraph. They learned to use a topic sentence, three details and a feel or focus sentence. You can see a few examples from students on the blog. 

    

Math-

*We learned all about graphing this week! 

*Students created bar graphs, pictographs and line graphs.

*We are going to start learning to count by 4's. Please help your child practice this skill at home. By now, your child should be able to count by 3's without pausing. 
*If you child cannot do 100 subtraction facts in 5 minutes, please make sure they are practicing every night on a worksheet or online at runmoby.com. The online site is better because it targets math facts your child has yet to memorize. 

Social Studies and Science-

*We observed money from all over the world.

*We practiced writing 5 sentence paragraphs with a clear topic sentence and a clear conclusion about money. 

*We will be creating our own coins in the next two weeks. 

Important note: Please wear gym clothes on Fridays.

Have a wonderful weekend!

IB Project research sites

Money and the US Mint: http://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinsMedals/

US Mint History: http://www.usmint.gov/kids/mintHistory/

Bartering System: http://merchantwarehouse.com/merchants-and-barter-system-kids

How Money began: http://www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/articles/bartering.htm

Kid Businesses: http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/money/making/article9.html

Banks: http://themint.org/kids/how-banks-work.html

Ways to save money: http://themint.org/kids/how-banks-work.html

Truth about Millionaire Quiz: http://themint.org/kids/the-truth-about-millionaires.html

What is the stock market?: http://themint.org/kids/what-is-the-stock-market.html

Types of Investments: http://library.thinkquest.org/3096/

How to Save Money: http://www.wikihow.com/Save-Money-as-a-Kid

Update from Ms. Luria

Homework for this week

Spelling words for this week


Dear Families,

Happy First Days of Fall! I hope that you are staying healthy and enjoying the cooler weather. This week we continued our IB unit on "How we organize ourselves."

Weekly Volunteer times still available: 

• Tuesday between 10:45 - 11 to do writing conferences with students (I'll show you how to do that). 
• Tuesdays between 1:45 and 3 to do science experiments with students - help set up the experiment, help clean up and general help with the experiments
• Wednesday between 10 - 11 to either help with a reading group or do writing/reading conferences with students
• Fridays between 10 - 11 to either help with a reading group or do writing/reading conferences with students

This week's focus:

Reading-

*We read an interesting story about what a million dollars would look like in different types on currency.

*We learned about strategies to use when we are confused by what we are reading.

Writing-

*Started talked about how writers focus in on small events.

*Continued to write modifying our adjectives, nouns and verbs. Ask you child to show the hand motions for those words!     

Math-

*Practiced our subtraction strategies

*Learned some great games for building fluency with subtraction

*Learned how to find patterns using a calculator. Ask you child what would happen if you press 19 + 3 and then keep on pressing the = sign! 

Social Studies and Science-

*Dollars and cents- learned all about the US mint and how coins are made in the US. 
*We did an experiment on cleaning pennies and found what what works best to clean them in the short term. Ask your child about how the pennies looked the day after they were cleaned! 
*We continued to talk about bartering.

Important note: Please wear gym clothes on Fridays.

Have a wonderful weekend!