Week of September 25th

As a final project to complete our essential question of How do we care for animals?, students had the responsibility of caring for a pet egg for the day! Students made a safe shelter for the egg and cared for it throughout the day. We only had about 3 cracked eggs by the end of the day so not to bad. This week's essential question is What happens when families work together? All of the stories have shown that when each member plays a part and helps out, the work gets done quicker. This is our final week of Unit One. Next week, we will start Unit 2: Animal Discoveries.

We are plugging along in math with the start of Topic 3- Add Within 100 Using Strategies. In this topic, one strategy will be to learn to add two-digit numbers using place-value strategies on a hundred chart. For this strategy, you find at a number on the chart. As you move down from the number, the number increases by 10 for each square. As you move to the right from the number, the number increases by 1 for each square. This and a variety of strategies will be presented and students must find one that works for them.

In preparation for field trip to the ALPL next Wednesday, we have been digging into our Force & Motion lessons. We brainstormed what motion is and how it makes objects move. We learned the two forms of motion- push & pull and how friction is working against motion. We still have a few slots available if you would like to join us. We will leave at 12:50 and arrive back at Redwood at 2:30. Let me know if you can attend. Since this is an in-city field trip, there is no additional permission form needed. You can save the date for our out-of-city field trip to the Cleveland Museum of History on April 25th as a part of our habitat unit.

Next week is a busy week with Homecoming Pride Week. The parade will be at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Each day next week, will be a dress-up day. Here is the schedule:

Monday- Silly Socks
Tuesday- Hawaiian Day
Wednesday- Cleveland Pride
Thursday- Throwback' to the 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's
Friday- A.L. Colors

Next week will also be the start of Walk On Wednesdays. Next week's theme will be Cleveland Pride tied to the Homecoming celebrations. Here is information for the rest of the month.

Since it is already October (!!) next week, don't forget that conferences are on October 12th so no school for students on the 12th or 13th. If you still need to sign-up, click here.

In student binder's, you will need find all of their logins for their online resources like Raz-Kids, Compass, etc. These can be used for their 15 minutes of weekly reading or as an extra practice. Links to the sites can be found on the resource tab (Across the top of the home page) of this site

Thanks,
Marissa Wilhelm