Weekly Updates

Dear Parents and Students,

I hope everyone had a great week. This kids did a really nice job of visualizing and more importantly, by the end of the week, I think they started to understand the importance of visualizing when reading stories.

Next week, we will start to look at setting and characters. More specifically, students will learn about traits of characters and how to identify if a character is flat, dynamic, or round.

We did not finish our publishing yet, my hope is that we can celebrate the students work on Tuesday. I will send out an email to confirm this.

When we are finished with our publishing of small moments, we are going to take a break between small moments and memoirs and focus on poetry. It is my goal by the end of the week,  that students have some knowledge of poetry terms such as alliteration, similes, metaphors, figurative language, and imagery. Along with this, I would like them to incorporate this into their own poetry. Students will share their poetry on Friday at Vancy's celebration.

On that note, make sure that if you are available, you join us on Friday at 1:30 to celebrate all that Vancy has done for our school and the children.

Last, in math, both 4th and 5th graders will be working on place value and multiplication methods. 6th graders will be learning how to multiply decimals, and divide whole numbers along with decimals.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend--enjoy these last beautiful days!

Smile,
Mrs. Chudzik

Important Dates
October 16, 2012-Author's Celebration (12:05-1:10)
October 19, 2012-A celebration for all that Vancy has done at Alta Elementary (1:30-till the end of the day)




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