Gracias
Many thanks to Dr. Jennifer Warren, Treasurer of the AP Board of Education, for sharing a couple of her favorite books. She read aloud The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors by Drew Daywalt, and the students also managed to convince her to read The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak. Thanks, Dr. Warren, for taking the time to read, sing, and even cheer with us. You are always welcome to come back for another visit. The students really enjoyed your visit.
Hip Hip Hooray!
Students are currently using XtraMath to practice/master addition and subtraction facts. Once we introduce multiplication, students will be switched over to multiplication and division facts. These programs are accommodated to allow for 6 second retrieval. Feel free to begin working on multiplication facts at home. Zeros, ones, twos, fives, tens, and elevens are easy facts to begin with.
Congratulations to Calvin! He mastered all of his addition facts on XtraMath. He is now onto subtraction. Way to go, Calvin! Keep up the great work!
Math
Chapter 1 is about Numbers to 10,000. The student workbook pages were sent home on Thursday as a review tool. Please review and practice similar problems with your child to help him/her prepare for the upcoming math test. On Wednesday, 9/25/19, we will be taking our chapter test.
Social Studies
Our Chapter 1 Study Guide went home on Thursday. We will be testing on Chapter 1 on Friday, September 27th.
Science
This week’s lesson on forces was about the force of friction. Specifically we considered friction in the context of solving the mystery, “How can you slide faster down a slide?”
One fun thing you can do with your child to help support this week’s learning is to watch a video of this new invention, called “liquiglide.” This is a situation where removing friction would make your life easier. The grape jelly video is impressive:
Weekly Reading
Every Friday, your child should bring home their gold/yellow reading book (Catch A Sunflake) and a paper with ten questions. Your child will need to read the assigned story and answer the questions. This assignment is due back by Thursday the following week. Not only does this task encourage your child to read outside of the regular school day, but it also helps build fluency, increase vocabulary, and reinforce the use of comprehension strategies modeled in class.
Animal Fact, Animal Fable due Sept. 26th
English Language Arts
Every week your child will read an anchor text as well as a paired text. The anchor text is used to work on fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary skills and strategies. The paired text may be similar in theme and or genre. This text will reinforce vocabulary usage. Student understanding of the anchor text and vocabulary will be assessed on Fridays.
Students will also work on grammar and spelling throughout the week. Assigned spelling words will be assessed on Fridays.
Honor Choir
Students in grades 3-5 have an opportunity to join Mr. Hoffman’s Honor Choir. Tryouts will be held Thursday, September 26th right after school. Typically, Mr. Hoffman will pick a familiar song, such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, for the students to sing aloud as their tryout. Tryouts are very brief, and students may leave right after their turn. Mr. Hoffman will notify students who made Honor Choir by Monday, September 30th.
PTA Information
Membership
YEEEEE-HAWWW! It’s our Annual Membership Drive!
This year’s theme is “Western Roundup”! Each classroom will have Wanted Posters on display on the Big Bulletin Board in the Main Hallway. At the end of each week from now until the end of October we will add one Western Stamp for each PTA member that joins per classroom! There is also the option to donate extra money to the PTA to purchase an extra Western Stamp for your class “Wanted Poster”! As an additional incentive the PTA is offering the top three competing classes a prize!
The classes with the most Western Stamps (highest percentage of Western Stamps according to how many students are on class roster) at the end of October will receive a prize!
The PTA knows it takes a village and we need more involved parents! You don’t have to be a parent of a student to be a member (grandparents, aunts, uncles etc) are also eligible to become PTA Members too!
Register today at: http://arnopta.memberhub.store
1st Place- $100 in book fair dollars to shop with at the November Book Fair for the Teacher and “Wagon Wheel Party”!
2nd place – $50 in book fair dollars to shop with at the November book fair for the teacher and “Gold Nugget Party”!
3rd place – $25 in book fair dollars to shop with at the November book fair for the teacher and “Hay Bale Party”!
Fun Run
It’s that time of year when the PTA holds its major fundraiser…the Arno Fun Run! Don’t forget to register online for this great event.
We now accept credit card payments online in addition to cash and checks sent in to the school.
Register for our Fun Run. Click here to register!!!