Weekly Times October 19, 2012

Weekly Times October 19, 2012

Headlines

Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Crystal Experiment - on going
Defining the types of rocks and how they are formed:
Sedimentary - layers
Metamorphic - heat+pressure+time
Igneous - from magma or lava
Readings on rock types
Videos

Language
Spelling – the long o sound
Target Setting Documents
Spelling sentences, activities, Spelling City
Read alouds: Magic School Bus: Voyage to the Volcano, How Mountains Are Made

Maths
Subtraction - counting on or back, regrouping by borrowing (done with counters- units, tens, hundreds) - to be continued next week
Near 100 game
Mathletics - review of place value skills, addition
Next week- continued subtraction and starting multiplication 3's and 4's

Special Event - World Food Day
Assembly
Story of Stone Soup
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/webcontent/wfp202398.pdf

Free Rice
http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1445

Molly's World - World Food Day 2012
http://cdn.wfp.org/2012/wfd/index.html?gclid=CPfo-O7nj7MCFYxa3godql8AUQ

ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES 

It was great to have an opportunity to talk with all of the parents this week for the target setting conferences.  The target forms will be coming home this week.

This week there is a lot going on for HALLOWEEN:

• Tuesday and Wednesday - Pumpkins are brought to school
• Friday - Halloween Celebration at school with Bake Sale and Assembly- Children may come in costume but the costumes should not be too scary and no weapons (even toy weapons) are allowed

October 27 through Tuesday, November 6 - Holiday

Wednesday, November 7 - School reopens

• Weekend Assignments:  - 

1. Reading Log - Please read aloud with your child for 15 minutes - see letter in the LOG - children should have logged some reading at least 5 times this week with two being their banded books aloud to an adult
2. Reading JOURNAL - students write a letter to me using three sentence starters - please see journal for further explanation
3. Spelling - Look Cover Say Write Check to review for the spelling quiz