WOW!! Everyone reached their AR reading Goal!!

Our entire class reached their AR reading goal and were able to attend the BFG party on Friday. We had special visitors for the party (The BFG, aka Mrs. Graham, and Sophie, aka Mrs. Shore).
The new AR reading period will extend over the next 6 weeks. The goals will of course be higher than the original goal because we are becoming more excellent readers.

Congratulations to our Order of the Phoenix Readers (The first boy and girl to reach 100% of their AR goal):
 
Marissa Gallup and Jaxson Briscoe

















Housekeeping:
Monday, October 15, 2012: PLC Early Release
Tuesday, October 16, 2012: Grandparents and Granola A-M 8:30-9:00
Wednesday, October 17, 2012: Grandparents and Granola N-Z 8:30-9:00
Thursday, October 18, 2012: Report Cards Available on Infinite Campus
Monday-Friday: The Entire Week: Ellis Book Fair

Reading:
This week in Literature we are studying 2 selections:
The Midnight Ride of Sybil Ludington and Radio Rescue. Both stories are about brave youths who used their courage to help save lives of people of people during trying times.
The spelling list for the week is a review list of the past 4 weeks:

• drum
• huge
• last
• drop
• class
• left
• wide
• mix
• send
• save
• smell
• stick
• note
• thick
• hunt
• thin
• grade
• lot
• cube
• pond
• life
• sock
• luck
• shut
• smile

Science:
We will continue our planet study and begin to write the beginning paragraph of our informative paper. We are looking for a great opening sentence and some details about the solar system for paragraph one. We will edit and review in class.

Social Studies:
Last week we learned about maps and started to create a map of our community. This week we will be studying why people move to different places.

Math:
Hooray!! The unit on addition, subtraction, and place value is complete. We will begin rounding and graphing for our next unit of study.

Question of the Week:

Brenna's Grandparents bought a total of 576 books at the Book Fair. Her Grandma bought 217. How many books did her Grandpa buy?? Use a Math Mountain to figure out the problem.

Write an addition word problem using the same numbers as above.