Reminders:
Book Fair Preview – Wednesday, November 11 at 9:30
Book Fair Buying – Monday, November 16 at 8:30
Happy Halloween!
Reading – We will be continuing our study on fables, folktales, and myths. We started to look at summarizing towards the end of the week. This can be a challenge for students because many either copy random sentences from a story or they do not give enough detail. We will continue to focus on how to summarize fables, folktales, and myths. We will have our test for this unit the week of November 9.
Writing – We will be focused on informational writing for the next several weeks. Students have decided to write a book on a topic that they believe they are experts on. This week we focused on how we can structure these books by creating a table of contents for their book.
Math - 3rd Grade: Next week we will be reviewing multiplication and division. On Tuesday, November 3, we will have a distributive property quiz. Students should have taken home their math notebooks home to study. The test for this unit will be on Monday, November 9. Please continue to practice multiplication facts at home. Starting on Friday, students will be taking a multiplication quiz each Friday. The facts will all be mixed together as they should now know all their facts.
4th Grade: We took our unit 2 test today. We will take our pre-test Monday and then start unit 3. Unit 3 is on fractions! :)
Social Studies – We began our unit on Economics this week. We will continue to work with this unit for the next couple weeks. We will have an economics vocabulary quiz towards the end of next week.
Note from Ms. Miller: New Prospect’s School Governance Council is currently working on ways to effectively implement the Project Based Learning (PBL) element of our Strategic Plan. One way they intend to do so is by investing in training for teachers in PBL from the Buck Institute for Education. Part of this investment is asking for a Request for Flexibility (RFF) for the 2016-2017 school year to have 4 full release days where students will not attend school so that the teachers may participate in this highly effective and recommended training. More details about the RFF and the full release days will be communicated at a later date, but at this time, the SGC has prepared a brochure for our school community to provide information about PBL and the Buck Institute. Please download the attachment to see this brochure. PBL Brochure