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October 30-November 2

Happy Tuesday!  I'm back from the best weekend of my life!

Fall conference sign up was sent last week.

Reminder: Veteran's Day RSVP is due November 1st. Please let us know if you are able to make it! It is also the last chance for third and fourth grade students to enter a piece of writing that they would like to read at the event. Lastly, if you are interested in volunteering your time to help us with our Veteran's Day preparations please contact Sheri Krueger at  kruegers@kaukaunasd.org

Upcoming Events:
10/31: Fall Scoot Wear Black and Orange
11/1: Veteran’s Day RSVP Due
11/1: Picture Retake Day
11/8: Fall Conferences
11/13: Fall Conferences
11/16: Early Release for students

Reading: This week in reading we are continuing our word detective unit. We will be using our knowledge of letters, sounds, and words to read. We will look at beginning of words, watch out for special endings, look at vowel teams, and use word parts we know to read new words.

Writing: This week in writing we are working on teaching our readers how to do something. We will learn how to plan a book with our partners, start using "bossy" language, and work on gaining our readers attention at the beginning of our book! This week we are also writing a How-To Book as a class, to teach the school something new!

Math: The students have been working hard at solving subtraction and addition story problems in many ways and finding the most efficient way to solve it. This week we will relate addition and subtraction, learn about the vertical form, and start preparing for this Unit 2 test. This week in math you will get a homework sheet sent home on Wednesday. We will start to send sheets home on Wednesdays for students to work on. You do not need to return it to school, we use this homework as a tool to show families what we are working on in school.

Science: This week in science we are going to start exploring space! We are going to build on what we learned on our field trip and start our unit with a close reading and asking ourselves some questions we have about space.

Word Work: This week in word work we are continuing our work with tapping out CVC words. We are also working on scooping up parts in our stories to sound fluent.

Questions to ask:
What books are you reading this week?
What are you teaching in your How-To book in writing?
Are you writing a book as a class this week? What is the book about?
Did you get math homework this week? Should we look at it together?
What are you learning about space this week? What are some things you hope to learn about space?

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