Happy fall break! I want to start by thanking my families for making it to conferences. We had a very high turn out, and I was pleased to see such a large percentage of families show up to discuss their child's progress thus far! Room 9 families are the best. We have a lot of fun and a lot of learning on tap for the week ahead, please read on.
Math: We will continue learning to solve subtraction word problems in a variety of ways, which include drawing pictures and crossing off parts we know, drawing picture number bonds, and circling the parts we know. Again we will be labeling our parts we know and identifying the part we are solving for.
Please remember, if you have any questions while helping your child with math homework you may visit my staff page via the Marshall website. On my staff page I have a Eureka Math Homework Help link. This will take you to a site that offers videos that walk you through each individual homework lesson. For instance, if we are on Module 1 Lesson 24 homework, click that video. The module is marked at the top of the homework page (1 1 mean grade 1 module 1) and the lesson is at the bottom of the page. These videos do an excellent job of explaining what we are looking for on the homework, how to solve the problems. All homework is review, and viewing the video may be all your child needs to get them on track. You may also access the homework help through this link here - https://www.fusd1.org/Page/10110.
ELA: Next week we are begin our cross curricular unit of study on Ancient Egypt with a read aloud from the Magic Tree House book "Mummies in the Morning." If your child would like to bring in their own copy of the book to follow along they may, please make sure to label their copy with their name. This is such a fun unit, and we love incorporating it within other subjects.
Science: As part of our Ancient Egypt unit we will begin the week by learning about the mummification process and then mummifying an apple, all the while using the inquiry process. After that the students will read and learn about pyramids and then break into teams to try and complete a STEM challenge of building a pyramid using certain material and guidelines.
Social Studies: The children will begin studying about Ancient Egypt with Mrs. Ogg.
Fratelli's Field Trip: Monday is our walking field trip to Fratelli's. It is going to be cold, barely above freezing when we are walking. Not the weather we would have ordered, but you never know what mother nature is going to hand you in this town. Therefore, we are going to need to bundle up! Please make sure your child has a big jacket, a hat, and gloves, as well as warm walking shoes! If you have not signed and returned the permission slip, it has been in your child's blue agenda folder since Tuesday, please search backpack and return. Unfortunately anyone without a signed permission cannot join us, and no one wants to miss out on a Fratelli's field trip.
Gallop Money Due: This is it, the last week to collect pledges and donations for our one and only fundraiser of the year, our Gallop. Please make sure to make that final push for funds for our school, 100% of which go right back to Marshall and our students! Money is due this Friday, October 19th. Thank you all for your efforts, we truly cannot raise money for our students and our school without you and we appreciate the time and energy you put into helping us out. Remember, there are prizes for the class that collects the most money as well as the class with the most participation. Let's do this!
Box Tops: Box Tops are also due on Friday, October 19th. Thank you to all who have been saving and turning in thus far! Every box top counts! Again, there is usually a prize for the class that turns in the most box tops...so ask grandparents, friends and neighbors to collect as well!
Taiko Drumming: Our students will have the opportunity to enjoy being a part of our annual Taiko Drumming artist in residency with Mr. Tony Trapasso. They will learn about the ancient art of Taiko drumming, and have opportunities to play these drums during their music times over the next three weeks. The fifth graders will be learning to play these drums quite intensely during this time and will be putting on a performance to showcase their skills on Thursday, November 1st at 5:30 pm.
Scholastic Book Orders: Book orders will be going home on Tuesday of this week. Lot's of great fall and Halloween titles. A few of my recommendations are Crankenstein and the Sloth book (both just because they are personal favorites). If you are looking for books that are gook for progressing your readers, I recommend the pigeon series. This is about the perfect level for the majority of our students and everyone loves the pigeon-very engaging! Again, book orders will go out on Tuesday and you will be allowed to order online as well using our class code Q7YBM.
Mesopotamia Taste Testing: On Friday we joined Mrs. Ogg's class to wrap up our social studies unit on Ancient Mesopotamia with a little taste testing. Even our most reluctant of taste testers came around at the end, and tried a few of the items. Surprisingly, the goat cheese was a hit. A few other favs were the pita bread and the cantaloupe. Not so popular were the figs and dates, but our brave first graders did give them a go. Here are a few pictures of our yummy morning. You can see they were a little apprehensive at first, but as they tried the grapes and realized it was pretty good they started to dig in. A big thank you to Ady's family for some of the donations, we appreciate it.
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