Our first two AR Champions!!

Riley was the first girl to her AR Goal!!
Chad was the first boy to his AR Goal!!
Congratulations you two!!

Housekeeping:
Monday, September 30, 2013: Switch Groups begin
Monday, September 30, 2013: Early Release/PLC
Friday, October 4, 2013: No School/Teacher Inservice
Tuesday, October 8, 2013: AR Goal due
Wednesday, October 9, 2013: Picture Day

Language Arts:
The book study of the week is called The Lost and Found by Mark Teague. It is  fun, fantasy adventure story. I think the kids will really like it!! Many of the students are still keyboarding their Personal Narratives on the computer. We have a program up and running called Type to Learn. This will help with their keybo arding skills. Also, if you would like to work on keyboarding skills at home then you can go to Dancemat. It is a program put out on the WEB from the BBC. Just Google it! The students have been writing answers to TEXT DEPENDENT Questions in their reading journals. They will be doing this on the Idaho Core Standards Assessment, so we want to get them really familiar with the process.

The Spelling words for this week are:

• smoke
• huge
• save
• life
• come
• wide
• mine 
• grade
• smile
• note
• cube
• love

Math:

WOW!!! The students are really understanding the place value of numbers and can write them in expanded form or in standard form. This next week we will be practicing addition of number through 1,000. The students are encouraged to use any of the strategies we have taught them:

1) New Groups Above

2) New Groups Below

3) Show All Groups

4) Arrow Strings

5) Number lines

6) Decompose Numbers

Science:

This week we will learn how the moon effects the oceans and their tides. The students were able to learn how the position of the earth effects the seasons. The more direct contact the earth has with the sun's rays, the warmer that part of the earth is. Our seasons are very different than the seasons of California. We made a season poster with seasonal weather statements. The students were also required to draw a leafy tree from Idaho in the different seasons.

Question of the Week:

Watch this video about the moon and then answer this question:

http://www.universetoday.com/103206/what-is-the-distance-to-the-moon/

If a mile is about the same as 17 football fields lined up end to end, how many football fields lined up end to end would it take to reach the moon? According the the video, the average distance from the moon to the earth is about 239,000 miles. Tommy, you will have to use a calculator to figure this out. This post is worth 2 tokens, but you have to present your answer to the class because they want to know. It is a multiplication problem.