News From Room 106

Families,

Fall seems to finally be here to stay! Please try and help your student remember to bring a sweatshirt or light jacket to wear, especially in the mornings, if the temperature is below 50 degrees.

*Looking ahead- if your student will need assistance in getting the appropriate winter outdoor gear, please let me know. This can include coats, boots, snow pants, gloves, and a hat.

Parent-Teacher Conferences- Parent-Teacher Conferences are on October 23 (11:45-4:15) and October 24 (4:00-6:30). A signup link has been sent home and also located below. Please let me know if you have any questions.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090545A5A92AAAFD0-51964106-fall

Halloween Party- Our party will be on October 31st. More information will be coming home soon.

Scholastic Book Orders- Each month, students will be bringing home Scholastic Book Club fliers. If you are interested, you can scan the QR code at the bottom and type in our class code: NH47R. Once we get closer to Christmas time, if you are interested in keeping an order a surprise for the students, please let me know and we can figure out a plan to get it to you!

Library- As a reminder, we have library on Fridays. Students are able to take their two books home. The books need to come back before new books can be checked out.

Please feel free to call, email, or text any questions you may have.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Arends

Email: arendsk@bas-k12.org

Classroom Phone: 794-4756

Google Voice/Text: 616-236-3820

October:

10/16 Picture Retake Day

10/18 Half Day

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)

10/31 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 past week's Spotlight Student was Finn! Finn does an excellent job in demonstrating great responsibility in the classroom each day! Finn also continues to be a great friend and role model to his peers. We are so thankful to have Finn a part of our classroom family!

Next week's Spotlight Student is Zella! Zella also does an excellent job in demonstrating great responsibility and kindness to all each day. She walks in the classroom each morning ready to learn! Zella does a great job in participating during whole group discussions and asking clarifying questions to help further her learning. Keep up the great work, Zella!

We have started our second Module. This involves place value and problem solving with units of measure. We have been working on using a clock to determine the time and elapsed time. This week, we have been studying the measurement of weight and liquid volume.

Any extra practice with multiplication and division facts at home will only benefit the students!

Our new essential question is: How do people make government work? Students will be studying nonfiction texts involving voting and how our government works. This is perfect to introduce the election next month!

For spelling, students will be working on long i and u. For grammar, we will be working with different types of nouns.

Accelerated Reader is now available for students to take tests. As a guardian, you can check if a book has an AR level and test by going to http://www.arbookfind.com/

We have moved to our first chapter in Social Studies. We will be reading our books, Meet Michigan. Our first chapter includes the geography of Michigan. Students will learn about the major rivers, the location of our larger cities, and about The Great Lakes. We will also be studying our state's symbols. After we complete our chapter, we will move back to Science. Our next science unit is Forces and Motion.

Next week, we will continue to review telling time. Students will also be working with addition and subtraction that includes borrowing and regrouping. The students have been doing a much better job at mastering telling time and addition/subtraction.

We have also added a writing page. Some students have the prompt of: "Tell me how to carve a pumpkin." Some students have the prompt of: "At the pumpkin patch,..."

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bze4eU0rInwweXZ4SmVsSkFuQnM/view?resourcekey=0-nFieMNqZKRjUqXzaPOvZqQ

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bze4eU0rInwwSWVyNWZRNmpWNXc/view?resourcekey=0-YtmtelNOARncIpzZRH6YeQ

A Day to Believe this year is October 25. Our spirit week during Believe Week will be announced soon!

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.