Halloween Week :)

We have been working hard this week to polish up our math and language skills and we are all pushing ourselves to become better writers.  We have been writing opinion pieces, as well as finishing up personal narratives, and creating fairy tales. This week we will be learning about the important parts of a friendly letter and then writing some of our very own.  You will be getting a little surprise from your student during parent/teacher conferences!

Speaking of parent/teacher conferences, there still is time to sign up for a convenient time to meet.  I have appointments available on both Wednesday, Nov. 6 and Thursday, Nov. 7.  You can either go to Altara's home page or you can scroll down below to our last post to click on the scheduler.  If you have problems, you can contact Susan Taylor in our main office for help.

This week in Reading Street we will be reading the selection, Tops and Bottoms.  Our story addresses our question for the week- How can we make sure our solutions are fair? Bear is an animal with a lot of land, a lot of money, and absolutely no get-up-and-go. Hare is a clever rabbit who didn’t always make the best decisions in the past. He now has a big family, no land, and no food. Bear and Hare enter into a “business deal,” and both learn that good things come through hard work.

This week we will be reviewing Author's Purpose.  The author’s purpose is the reason an author writes something. Reasons include to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express ideas and feelings (opinion).

Another important convention we will be learning this week is all about singular possessive nouns.  These words show that one person owns something. We add an apostrophe and the letter s (’s) to a singular noun to make it a singular possessive noun. For example: baby's bottle, nurse's bag.

We will be reviewing subtraction with regrouping this week while we get ready for testing on Wednesday, 10/30.

And of course last but not least we will be celebrating Halloween this Thursday, Oct. 31 with a parade, beginning at 9:00 and a party to follow.  Come join us for some Spooktacular fun!  Just a reminder there will be early dismissal that day at 1:15 p.m. and no school on 11/1.

Have a GREAT week!