October 8-12

                                            Alone we are SMART, together we are BRILLIANT
                                                                  -Steven Anderson

Important Dates:
10/8: FOOD DRIVE until October 19th
           STEM Lab
10/9: Picture RETAKES
10/10: 
10/11: Library, don’t forget to bring your books!
10/12: Food Drive DRESS DOWN, Spirit Day, Early Release

Classroom Information:
Fall Break is October 17th-19th.
Parent-Teacher Conferences are just around the corner. Conferences will be held the evenings of October 23rd and 25th. You will sign up for conferences through BLOOMZ, and I will let you know as soon as I open the sign-ups. I have a great deal of information to share with you, so please make sure to sign up.
For anyone who signed up to help with the Halloween Party, please check for a BLOOMZ message containing a code to add the party planning sub-group. 

Food Drive:
Quest is partnering with BESST Realty to host a Food Drive to benefit a local food pantry. This food drive will run until October 19th. We are collecting canned food, NON-perishable food items, travel size and regular size hygiene items, toothbrushes and floss.  This is a great opportunity to become involved with helping the community, as well as a chance to earn class points. Please keep in mind that we are only in school until October 16th, before being out for Fall Break. 

Apple Witches:
You should have gotten a letter with instructions and patterns for creating the witches’ clothes. You are welcome to start sending in dresses as soon as you have them sewn. Please have witch dresses returned to school no later than October 16th. If you need someone to sew your dress, just send the pre-cut pieces in a baggie with your child’s name and I will hand it off to one of the 2 volunteers that have offered their time and talents. If you did not get the Apple Witch instructions, please let me know and I will send another one home with your child.

Coming This Week:
This week in Math we are working on developing fluency with multiplication! This will include continuing to work with fact families, learning repeated addition songs, and using new fact fluency to apply to word problems. 
In Reading, we will be reading Jane’s Discovery and Finding Lincoln. The comprehension strategy we will focus on visualizing and asking and answering questions, and our skill will be Cause and Effect. The vocabulary focus will be on using context clues to help us understand new words and recognizing figurative language.

Homework:
It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night and Reflex. Please make sure that your child gets a green light in Reflex AT LEAST 3 times during the week. I have realized that the Reflex app for phones is not available right now. I’m hoping it will be back soon, and when it is I will make sure to let you all know. If doing Reflex at home is not possible at times, please send me an email or Bloomz message so that I can arrange for your child to have an opportunity to get it completed at school.

Work hard. Be kind.