News From Room 106

Families,

Our classroom has been very full of great, hard working students. They are very kind and supportive of each other. We have such a family feeling classroom! Thank you for sending us such a nice, hardworking students!

Parent/Teacher Conferences: Conferences are on Wednesday and Thursday next week. A reminder of your date/time will be emailed to you two days before the conference. We can't wait to discuss each of the students' progress with you soon!

Halloween Party: Our party will be on Halloween, October 31, from 2:15-3:15. The third grade will be having a costume parade at 2:15. We will then be having donuts and cider/water. We are asking for $2 donations to help purchase the items. Thank you to those that have donated!

Spirit Week: Spirit Week is next week to show our support for different cancers, ending with our Day to Believe Day on Friday! The daily colors are listed below.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Arends

Email: arendsk@bas-k12.org

Classroom Phone: 794-4756

Google Voice/Text: 616-236-3820

October:

10/18-10/25 Woodview Book Fair

10/21 No School- Fall Break

10/23 Half Day Elementary- Parent Teacher Conferences (12:30-5:00)

10/24 Parent Teacher Conferences (4:00-6:30)

10/25 A Day to Believe

10/25 Popcorn Friday (Popcorn $1)

10/31 Halloween Party (Time TBD. More information to come home soon)

November:

11/1 No School

11/20 Mobile Dentist

11/27-11/29 No School

This week's Spotlight Student is Dominic. Dom has done a great job in working hard to turn in his homework! He has also been very kind to classmates. Over the week, we learned that Dom really likes pizza and enjoys riding his bike!

Next week's Spotlight Student is Raemie! Raemie has done an excellent job in turning in her homework and completely her Red Folder early in the week. She is very kind to her classmates. Raemie does a great job at working hard each day and participating in group discussions! Way to go, Raemie!

We are focusing on rounding two- and three-digit numbers. We are rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. Students have also been working on using the standard algorithm for addition and subtraction. A large majority of students are still demonstrating struggles with subtraction including regrouping and borrowing. Any extra practice with subtraction problems will be very beneficial!

We are now our new unit of Historical Fiction. Students have been working on a variety of texts that relate to our essential question: Why do people immigrate to new places? For spelling, we will be working on long e. For grammar, we will be studying singular and plural nouns.

We have completed our first chapter in Social Studies. Students learned about the geography of our state. We also studied our state symbols and the main differences between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. Next week, we will move back to Science. Our next science unit is Forces and Motion.

Next week, we will be reviewing addition and subtraction, multiplication, and telling time. Students will have a writing prompt involving a haunted house!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bze4eU0rInwwcDhCbnZIcTlNbFU/view?resourcekey=0-H1xE20r7sXpWk13QLDvy3A

Throughout the month, we will focus on responsibility. We have discussed that this includes taking ownership of our actions, turning in our homework and classroom on time, and trying our best each day.