Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

Important Upcoming Events

Bird Day: October 10

• Please check the weather so students are dressed appropriately.  They can wear boots or tennis shoes.  Please have them wear older tennis shoes as the forecast for the next week has a chance of rain each day.  They will also want a jacket or sweatshirt so they don't get chilly.
• If they are bringing a lunch from home, it needs to all be in disposable containers/bags.  We will not be bringing anything back to RBE with us.  Please put their lunch in a gallon size Ziploc bag labeled with their name.  

Western Day: October 12

• In celebration of the Chicken BBQ on October 13, October 12 is Western Day.  Students can dress up and participate if they would like. Please remember even though weapons were used in the Old West, weapons of any kind are not permitted at school.  

Chicken BBQ: October 13

• We are still looking for volunteers and need some more pies.  If you are able to volunteer or donate pies, please use the links below to sign up.
• Volunteers: www.signupgenius.com/go/rbechicken
• Pies: www.signupgenius.com/go/pielist
• You can still order ticket next week if you want them in advance.  Tickets are also available for purchase at the BBQ.
• If you're unable to stay for long at the BBQ, you can always use the drive thru to get dinner on the go.  Team Moss will be working the drive thru.  Ms. Mottaz will be taking orders and Mrs. Ross will be delivering food to the cars.

October 16: Early Dismiss at 12:10

• If your student is going home a different way, please let us know either the day before or early on the morning of October 16.  

October 17: Picture Retakes

• Pictures are coming home in Friday Folders.  If you would like your student to retake pictures, please send back in the original package on October 17.  

November 5: Teacher Work Day (No School)

November 6: Election Day (No School)

Cooler Weather

• Please make sure your student has a light jacket with them each day at school.  Even though we still have some warmer days in the forecast, fall is definitely on its way.  It can be chilly at morning recess.  If the "feels like" temperature is below 60, the students need to have a sweatshirt or light jacket.  

Next Week's Learning

Math

• This week, we continued working on addition strategies.  This week, the students learned how to "name" numbers.  This means they find multiple ways to represent a number. 

• Next week, students will test over Unit 2.  Homelinks were sent home on Monday if students wanted additional practice.  We will also start Unit 3 next week.  This unit is over subtraction strategies.  The goal of both unit 2 and 3 is to introduce students to multiple strategies to use to solve a problem.  

Science

• Next week, we will wrap up our study of birds.  They will get to use what they know and their creativity to make their own bird that includes all the necessary components of a bird and then explain the diet of the bird based on its beak.  They will also consider the appearance of the bird and how it relates to the habitat of the bird.  
• We also have Bird Day next week.  We are excited about this, the kids always have a lot of fun on this field trip!

Reading

• This week, students worked to identify character traits in books as well as character traits that describe them.  Next week, we will continue to work on identifying more specific character traits through our independent reading as well as read aloud books.

Writing

• The students worked so hard this week rewriting and adding.  Next week, we will edit and revise using CUPS and ARMS.  Then we will start publishing.  We will keep these to share with you at parent teacher conferences next month. 

• After we finish our first personal narrative, we will start a second one that will be done more independently and students can use what they have learned throughout our first personal narrative.  We will still be reviewing each section before students write.  We also have a graphic organizer for them to use which will help them keep their writing organized.  

Fundations

• This week in Fundations, students worked on adding suffixes.  We talked about about adding -ed to the end of words and how it can make the /d/, /id/ or /t/ sound but it is always spelled -ed.  It has been awesome to see the students adding suffixes to the end of words in writing.  They are using the suffix cards from Fundations as a resource.
• Next week, we will learn new vowel teams.  At this point, the students are expected to be able to read with the vowel teams, but not use them in spelling.  We will start unit 5 next week.  This unit teaches about identifying syllables in words.  

Have a fabulous weekend!