Chicken BBQ is
TOMORROW!
- Our
HUGE PTA Fundraiser is tomorrow, October 13 from 4 p.m.-8 p.m.!
- PTA
provides the school with so many amazing opportunities for the
school. This is their main fundraiser for the year.
- Come
by to have a yummy chicken dinner, do some shopping at the silent auction
(the list came home yesterday) and play some games!
- Game
tickets and meal tickets are available for purchase tomorrow if you
weren't able to pre-order.
- If
you're short on time, we have a drive thru that is very
efficient.
- Mrs. Ross and I will be working at the drive thru from
4-6, so be sure to stop by and say hi.
Pumpkin Book
Project
- We sent home information
this week about our pumpkin book project. Please be talking with your
student to identify a book character they want to create using a
pumpkin. Next week, we will be sending home a paper where students
will tell us the title of the book for their character and the name of
their character. We will also be asking if they have a
pumpkin. Please help them fill this out when it comes home next
week.
Veteran's Day
Pictures
- Our
Veteran's Day assembly is next month. Mrs. Sharp is collecting
pictures of veterans that are family members of RBE faculty, staff and
students. If you would like to send in a picture of a veteran for
the veteran's wall, then I will send home the information sheet for you to
fill out to go with the picture.
Early Dismissal:
October 16 at 12:10
- Please
let us know if your student is getting home a different way than normal.
Runge Field Date
Change: May 10
- Due to Truman Day, we
had to reschedule our Runge Field Trip. Our new date is Friday,
May 10. Parents are welcome on this trip, so we want to get
the date to you as early as possible so you can take off work if
needed.
Math Test
- Your student's Unit 2
Math Test came home on Wednesday. If you haven't done so already,
please review the test with your student, then sign and return it to school.
Friday
Folders
Family Eat Out
- Our
next Family Eat Out Night is at Jersey Mike's on October 16-17. This
is a great excuse to not make dinner while supporting RBE at the same
time.
- 30%
of the profits will come back to RBE!
Dental Screening
- Missouri
Department of Health and Senior Services and RBE are offering dental
screenings again this year. If you would like your student to
participate, please fill out the form and return it to school.
Unit 3 Parent
Letter
- We
started Unit 3 in math today. Unit 3 covers subtraction
strategies. We will teach the students a variety of strategies to
use and then they can use the strategies that work best for
them.
- Please
continue practicing basic facts at home with students. Students are
learning strategies for addition and subtraction facts, but it is
important as students progress in math for them to know the facts in a
snap.
Unit 5 Fundations
- We
started Unit 5 in Fundations today. It focuses on multi-syllabic
words. We will be learning about different ways to identify where
the syllable break occurs as well as how to mark up multi-syllabic words.
- Please
continue to practice trick words with your students at home. If you
need another copy of trick words, please let us know. Trick words
are words that do not follow a pattern and students are expected to be
able to read and write.
Next Week's Learning
Math
- We
will be learning how to use addition sentences to help solve subtraction
problems as well as the counting up and counting back. We will also
be learning about different type of subtraction problems. We will be
building fact families which is creating 2 addition and 2 subtraction
problems with the same 4 numbers (4+5=9; 5+4=9; 9-5=4; 9-4=5).
Reading
- Next
week, we will be learning about the theme of a book. We will talk
about what the author wants us to take away from the book. Students
at Hickman High School wrote children's books in their creative writing
class and we will be using these to discuss the theme. This can be a
more difficult concept for students so we will be working on theme for the
next two weeks.
Writing
- We
are on the tail end of publishing our first personal narrative.
Yeah!!! Next week, we will finish it up and then start our second
personal narrative piece. Our goal is to have the second one
finished by parent teacher conferences so we can share both with you at
conferences.
- We
worked on editing and revising this week. We talked about the
importance of capital letters and punctuation on our sentences. The
students have a lot of good ideas, but often write them as one giant
sentence. We are talking about finding the nature breaks and making
them separate sentences.
Science
- This week, we continued to talk about birds and their adaptations. Today, the students were able to create their own bird, but had to justify their choices by telling how their adaptation choices would impact what their bird eats, what their bird does, and where their bird lives.
- Building a Bird: http://projectbeak.org/adaptations/build.htm
- We showed this website to students today. They started to design a bird today from their imagination. If they wanted to play with this website over the weekend or next week to build their own bird, they enjoyed doing it today as a whole group and some students played around on this website during inside recess.
- Next week, we will go back to learning about properties of materials. Your child should already be able to describe the three states of matter. We will now be diving deeper into properties and the students will be describing different materials (metal, plastic, wood, ceramic) by their properties (color, texture, hardness, flexibility, strength, absorbency and shininess).
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