The First AR Party was a HUGE HIT!!t

We Had Some Special Visitors at the AR Party!!

Housekeeping:

Wednesday, October 9, 2013: New Reading Goals Started

Monday, October 14, 2013: Early Release/PLC

Monday, October 14, 2013: AR Store

Tuesday, October 15, 2013: McDonald's Night

Wednesday, October 16, 2013: Music with Mr. O'Brien

Language Arts:

Last week, we had a great week of POETRY study. The students wrote the following poems:

• Free Verse (I Wish...) Please come and see our bulletin board display in the hallway!!
• Chant Poem (I'm Tired)
• List Poem (Ouch)
• Limerick

This was a really fun week of exploring different ways to write Poems. The students did an amazing job on all of their poems!!

This week in Language Arts we are writing a paragraph relating ourselves to a character in a story we read. The story is called "Radio Rescue". It is a true story about a young boy who uses his Ham Radio to notify rescue workers in a Florida Hurricane. The paragraph will be graded on the following items:

• A Title
• A "Catchy" Beginning
• Indentation
• Sticking to the Topic
• Relating the character in the story to themselves
• Punctuation and Spelling
• Neatness

**A Rubric will be attached

The students will also be reading short informational passages and identifying the main idea and supporting details. 

The following words will be included on the weekly Spelling Test. This is a large list because it is a review of all of the spelling patterns we have studied for the past 6 weeks.

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

Math:

We feel the students have a good grasp of addition strategies and adding numbers through 999. We are concentrating on rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and the nearest 100 this week. Next week we will begin subtraction of numbers through 999. At the end of our 9 week Math Unit, the students will work on a Performance Task utilizing addition, subtraction, rounding, and place value.

Social Studies:

The following topics will be discussed in Social Studies this week:

How we get what we need in a community.

A community has history.

Many people, many ways of life.

A community guidance card on how to be a good citizen.

Questions of the Week:

The 5th graders and the Third Graders at Pomroy Elementary have recess together. There are 238 third grade students. There are 322 fifth grade students.

How many students are there altogether?

How many more 5th graders are there than 3rd graders?

Rounding to the nearest 10, how many third graders are there?

Rounding to the nearest 100, how many 5th graders are there?

For an extra token, make an arrow string or number line and show how YOU would add 238 to 322?