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Volume 6

Dates to Remember: A note from the teachers

10/2-10/4 F-1 Families,
Mrs. Phillips Teaching Thank you to all that have signed up to
10/5-10/6 drive for our field trip!!! We appreciate
Mrs. Cooper Teaching your time. We are posting the Acclaim
10/4 math strategies that weve been using
Walk or Roll to School in class on our website. Please select
10/6 Eagle Fun Run Information then Curriculum These
10/13 Donuts with Dad can assist your child in solving problems
10/20 Lindsay from their math homework. These
Wildlife Museum strategies are also continued in 4th
Field Trip grade. Next week we will be starting
multiplication. We will
start with understanding
what multiplication is before
we begin fact practice.
Please talk with your child about: ~Mrs. Cooper & Mrs. Phillips

Fantastic Flying Journey Chapter

Six (beaver, moose, North
America)
Writers Workshop: Transition
Words, Quotes
Math Topic Three: Review and
Assessment (3 Digit Addition and
Subtraction)
Responsibility
Science: Habitat research and Students show responsibility when:
group project
take care of their belongings
Vocabulary: clean up after themselves
adaptation, trait, use classroom materials correctly
survive, reproduce turn-in homework on-time
complete class work on-time
Some Standards this Week
Acclaim Math Strategies
*Math
3.NBT.A.2 Fluently add and subtract On our website (and blog) you will
within 1000 using strategies and find the the Acclaim strategies. We
algorithms based on place value, have been using these strategies in
properties of operations, and/or the class. Students see math in the
relationship between addition and way they process the information.
subtraction These strategies provide
*Language Arts alternatives to traditional methods
ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1 to help them "see" the procedures
Ask and answer for the algorithms. We encourage
questions to the students to apply all of the
demonstrate strategies and then they can pick
understanding of a the one that works for them to
text, referring understand the concept. In the end,
explicitly to the the correct answer and the ability
text as the basis to problem solve and explain their
for the answers. thinking in writing is the goal.

Scholastic
Last week your child received
the book order for October.
Please be sure to submit your
orders by: Box Tops
October 6th!
We are participating in the school
Thank you to the families that box top challenge! Please collect
ordered in September! We got box tops and turn them in to F-1
several new non fiction books until Oct. 20th. This is a fun way for
for the classroom because of F-1 to work together and also raise
your purchase. money for our school. We know
F-1 can break records and collect a
lot of box tops for Kolb Elementary!
Shop Online:
scholastic.com/readingclub

One-Time Class Activation Code:

MC98C