Week of October 22nd

Important Dates:

Monday, October 22nd

IOWA Testing Begins in 3rd Grade

Red Ribbon Week (See Schedule Below)

School Bus Driver Appreciation Week

Tuesday, October 23rd

Report Cards Go Home

Thursday, October 25th

Picture retakes are cancelled

Monday, October 29th

IOWA Testing Begins for 5th Grade

Canned Food Drive Begins

Tuesday, October 30th

Progress Skills Checklist Go Home

Thursday, November 1st - Thursday, November 8th

PTO Silent Auction

Friday, November 2nd

All Pro Dads

Monday, November 5th

Picture Retake Day

Tuesday, November 6th

Changed to a Teacher Work Day in Fulton County. No school for students

RED RIBBON WEEK

The National Red Ribbon Campaign recognizes one week in the fall of every school year to focus specifically on drug education and awareness. Medlock Bridge students are invited to participate during the week of October 22nd. Our school will have spirit days to promote being drug free.

Monday, October 22nd: Turn Your Back on Drugs (Wear your shirt backwards)

Tuesday, October 23rd: Sock it to Drugs (Crazy or mismatched socks

Wednesday, October 24th: Be a Jeanius and Don't Do Drugs (Wear jeans and red)

Thursday, October 25th: Say No and Glow (Wear neon colors )

Friday, October 26th: Wear the Ribbon with Pride (Purchase a pink ribbon to wear)

Things to Do:

Collect cans for our canned food drive next week!

What We're Learning:

Reading:

As readers this week we are continuing to explore and learn from non- fiction texts. This week our readers will practice identifying collecting facts from various books on the same topic. We will compare and contrast the information we find as we study more about bats this week!

Our theme this week is about how animals have unique traits.

ELA:

Mentor Sentences: We will focus on contractions this week in both our mentor text and phonics this week. We will read the popular book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Phonics: Contractions

examples: he'd, I'm, aren't, it's, won't

Writing: We will finalize our writing this week as our readers will test out our detailed directions to see if one of our class robots will escape without looking at the map!

We will also work on concluding our nonfiction writing as we write an information piece of writing on bats!

Math 2.1:

We will continue to deepen our two digit addition strategies focusing on place value charts and base ten blocks to help us create our concrete models to demonstrate the abstract ideas of regrouping. We will explore the traditional method of regrouping, but will not expect our learners to master this at this time.

Math 2.2:

We are ready to begin our next unit. This is always a favorite: Geometry! We will deepen our background knowledge of shapes by looking at and comparing their attributes such as sides and angles. We will look at deeper vocabulary to classify them such as quadrilaterals, polygons, and more!

Math 3.1:

This week we will continue to explore the distributive property and how we can use that to help us speed up the process!​​ So while I may not have 4 X 7 memorized, I know I can solve 4 X 5 easily and 4 X 2... combine them together and you've solved 4 X 7! We will work on using this to help us solve word problems involving multiplication.

Science:

​​This week we are beginning a favorite unit: matter! We will explore properties that make up all matter including solids, liquids, and gasses. We will take a look at the molecular composition to help us decipher this seemingly simple task. We will love exploring with this hands on unit! If you have any supplies you think we can use, please feel free to reach out! We will need extra paper towels, cups, clorox wipes, baking soda, oil, and food dye among others! We appreciate your support.