Week of 10/6 Newsletter

Dear 4th & 5th Grade Families,

Well, it sounds like the kids had a BLAST on their trip to Coloma! Thanks to ALL of the families that helped by chaperoning, gathering supplies, and helping kids prepare. What a wonderful learning experience for the students! While there, the students created bandanas to remember their experience and we would love to display them before sending them home. If anyone is willing to iron them to set the ink for us, please let me know!

We are beginning our play this week! It is called "Great Americans of the 20th Century". Thanks to the Parents' Club, we will begin working with Micha as well! Enclosed in the Monday Folder, there is a Volunteer Sign-up Sheet for any parent or guardian who is able to help out with the rehearsals and set. Please fill it out and return it by this Thursday.

The Drive for Schools has begun! You will find all of the information needed in your child's Monday folder. For more details, please visit this website.


What We're Learning:

Math: Students will be expected to explain what a factor and multiple is, as well as the difference between Prime & Composite Numbers. 5th Graders will extend this concept with Prime Factorization. It is IMPERATIVE that your child practice multiplication facts on a daily basis to memorize the facts from zeros to twelves. This will help them immensely with fractions and more complicated computation with larger numbers.

Social Sciences & ELA: Students will continue their novel study on The Sign of the Beaver focusing on inference, a character study as well as looking for figurative language and complex sentences.

Science: 4th Graders will begin a unit on Ecosystems. 5th Graders will continue with Mixtures & Solutions.

Thank you so much for all of your support both in the classroom and at home. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me via email: rhonig@mountainesd.org.