Special Announcements I know that many of the students in the class are interested in making videos and movies. I came across this cool opportunity and wanted to share it with you. Tomorrow is Pumpkin Carving Night! It is $10 per person. Dinner for the family and a pumpkin for each child is included. It is a ton of fun and the kids are super excited. Let Mrs Orzoff know ASAP if you plan to attend. We will be attending a musical at the Youtheater in Skokie on Tuesday. I am sending a flyer home today. Please send $10 in by Monday, October 24. We will eat lunch at school upon our return. Carnival is next Friday, October 28. Costumes may be worn to school in the morning, as is traditional for the 4th graders only. Be aware that costumes will be worn to lunch and recess. They may change before we go to Carnival, if they would like. Please send $10 in for tickets by Thursday, October 27th. I am noticing a need to work on typing skills. This is a great page where your student can set up an account and keep track of their progress. You may see it come home as homework... Go to the resources page and scroll down to the bottom for the link. LA October brings the realistic fiction genre study. We have begun our small group book studies. It is a chance to work in small groups to work on specific strategies good readers use. Each group is responsible for reading independently between meetings. We have also started reading Eight Keys as a whole group to introduce new literary devices and terms. The nonfiction unit will be wrapped up with a memoir project. The students will be writing a short memoir, including nonfiction text structures and utilizing text features to tell their story. It will be presented in their choice of multimedia. If they come asking for artifacts or pictures, they can be sent via email. Math The addition and subtraction unit was wrapped up last week. We have been working on ways to show multiplication and the area model of multiplication this week. Please continue to practice basic math facts when you need to have a little family fun! Science We will talking about soil quality soon. Please send in any gardening shovels you may have at home. We will be working on preparing our garden for spring. Computer Science & Studio Lab We had a special guest speak with our class on Monday. Debi Lewis is a website designer. She spoke with the class about the purpose of websites, how to market your clientele and showed a little bit of HTML code. The students asked great questions and learned a lot that they will apply when they design their blogs. We worked on conditionals in Computer Science. The students are welcome to login to code.org and work any time they wish. They will need to login to their Roycemore Google account first. I am so impressed by how quickly everyone embraced the research portion of Studio Lab. Everyone is learning so many new things, I can hardly keep up with them! Some students are ready to bring in materials to work next Wednesday. I can store materials in the classroom. They do not need to go back and forth.
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