Happy Tuesday October 9th!

Reminders:
City map + write up extended to Oct 11
Spelling Sentences due Friday
Spelling Test Thursday
Layers of the Forest Project due Monday Oct 15

Special Note: This Friday we have a presentation that will last all morning on The Junior Achievement Program! More info to come!

Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving and weekend and was able to stay warm.

Today the students began their busy day with Music and Library. After warming up with instruments they were able to return their books and find some new ones!


In Gym this week students are working on fitness playing different games such as Fitness Monopoly.

After gym we had Math and began our review of division! After some basic fact practice students were able to watch the math antics videos on basic and long division.
Link:https://www.mathantics.com/

We spent some time practicing these division skills and will be continuing this unit this week. Remember:
Divide
Multiply
Subtract
Bring down!

OR Dad, Mom, Sister, Brother to remember the steps of division.

In LA students were given time to reflect on the new journaling topics:

Must:

You have got to start playing ____ ! It’s awesome!

Should:

Trees be gone!

How a world without trees would impact everything!

Could:  

Write about and summarize  a movie/TV episode you currently read/saw!

The spelling words are as follows:

Spelling Words – Trees and Forests

1)              habitat*

2)              emergent*

3)              canopy*

4)              understory*

5)              subfloor* (sub-floor – alternative spelling)

6)              organism*

7)              leaves*

8)              bacteria*

9)              producers*

10)         decomposers*

11)         ecosystem

12)         nutrients

13)         deciduous

14)         coniferous

15)         biodiversity

Finally, we spent the last part of the day working on our Science layers of the forest projects which are due 

Monday!