Wednesday

*Don't forget to go through Wednesday Folders!
*Science Tests will come back on Friday after we have time to graph our test scores in our Data Folders.
*Students watched the Lexington Opera perform a play on Nutrition during Specials class, so no Music today.
*Every other Wednesday (starting today) the teachers are having "Spirit Day" where we are allowed to wear jeans and GSE t-shirts (woohoo!) and pay $2 towards the 5th grader Washington, D.C. trip.  Let's have the students participate in the spirit day, too! Of course your child will not pay $2, but it would be fun to wear GSE t-shirts! So the next Wednesday will be Sept. 29th.
*Volunteers - Is the Calendar working out OK for you? I am thrilled I had so many parents respond to wanting to help in the classroom!  If you have not been contacted but would like to help in the room, please email me and let me know your preference (working with students, making activities, copies, etc.). Or if  you'd like to help in a different way than you currently are, let me know!Math: Today we continued learning about factors, multiples, prime, and composite.  We did different types of work problems.  That seemed to get some of the students confused so we will continue working on that! I am planning to have the next Math test Wed. or Thurs. of next week.  It will cover estimation through multiples.  We will work on a study guide beginning next week.
No HW
Here is a fun game students can play at home on your computer:

http://www.multiplication.com/flashgames/EggStaticDrop.htm

Reading: Today we worked more with writing a summary. A lot of students are still having a hard time picking out what topics need to go in the summary. We started with a small picture book that I read aloud and wrote a summary for the book together.  Then students were placed in leveled groups to read shorter non-fiction texts and write a summary.  Students also had time to read from their Lit. Book.
We haven't been able to read from our Literature Novels daily anymore. We have been asked to use the Treasures Reading series daily with our students. I feel that using literature novels to learn the content and skill is very important and very real-world relevant so we will continue using Lit. Novels but we may have to read them on a slower pace than anticipated!No HW

Science: Today we worked on an ecosystem project. We learned about ecosystems and the things that can make up an ecosystem.  Then students drew their own and made a food web.  Students were to link each animal in the food web and then explain what would happen to the food web if a certain animal or plant was no longer there -  interdependence. 
HW: Some students need to finish coloring or explaining on their projects

Writing: During writing time, I continued pulling students to have conferences on their memoirs.  Most of the students that I pulled were ready to start their next draft.  The other students had DEAR time if they were waiting on a conference.
HW: complete intro or 3rd event paragraph for memoir if needed

Have a great night,

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