Monday, October 27, 2014

October 27-31, 2014

It was great to see everyone at the Harvest festival! Thanks to our wonderful PTA for a fun afternoon and thanks to all of you for coming in and showing your support!  We are so grateful for our PTA and all they do for our Caraway Community!

Red Ribbon Week
This week is Red Ribbon Week.  We will talk about a healthy life style, eating healthy, exercising, and staying away from all the harmful things that could hurt our body. As a whole school, we will do different activity each day to show our support for a healthy and happy life. 
Monday:  Red Ribbon Day- we will start to wear our red ribbon today for the rest of the week.
Tuesday: Pair up and make good choices (find a friend and dress up as twins)
Wednesday: Sock It To Drugs Day (we will wear silly/crazy socks to school)
Thursday: Good character is our super power (we will wear superhero clothing)
Friday: Rally In Red Day (We will wear as many red items as we can). 


Here is what we will be doing this week:

READING
We will continue our study of expository/non-fiction text. As a class we discussed the features of nonfiction such as real photos, table of contents, glossary, caption, labels, index, diagram, and maps. We concluded that the purpose of reading nonfiction text is to learn! We also learned the differences between fiction and nonfiction. One difference is that we read a fiction text from beginning to end. However, we do not have to so the same thing when we read a non-fiction.
 We can read the parts of nonfiction text which holds the information we want to know, or the information that is important to us. This week we will be reading texts about bats! 

WRITING
We will continue writing non-fiction.
 Our focus this week will be writing facts about bats.  We are learning how to draw careful diagrams like scientist and label the parts. Our goal is to write these facts so we can teach others about what we have learned.

MATH
This week we will learn to tell time.
 We will learn to tell time to the hour using a digital and an analog clock.  We will learn about the hands, the hour hand (the short hand), and the minute hand(the long hand) and how they move: The minute hand makes one full turn while the hour hand moves slowly from one numeral to another.

SOCIAL STUDIES
Maps and globes are the focus this week in Social Studies. As a class we will compare the two and learn how each is important. We will also be learning about where we are located in the big scheme of the world, starting with our street address and moving outwardly to the entire world.

Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood:  I listen to others without interrupting.  I try to see things from their viewpoint.  I am confident in voicing my own ideas.

REMINDERS:
*Specials- A Group:  PE on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
               B Group:  PE on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
**Wear tennis shoes for sure on these days!!!!
*Library- Tuesday 11-11:30
*Send orange folders back every day.
*Send a healthy snack with your child every day.
 We will eat snack at 10:30

DATES to REMEMBER:
October 29:  Early Release Day dismissal @12:45
November 24-28:  Thanksgiving Break
December 3:  Early Release Day dismissal @12:45
December 8-12:  Book Fair

December 19:  Winter Break begins

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