October

 - Mark Your Calendars - 

• After School Activities (Fall Session) began 9/29 and run through 11/14
• 4-H Club - Monday
• NAHS Wearable Art - Thursdays
• Run Club - Thursdays
• Chess Club - Fridays
• NHS Study Group - Fridays

• 10/10 No School - Teacher Workshop

• 10/13 No School -  VI&PR Friendship Day

• VI Junior Duathalon - Sunday, October 19th at Altona Lagoon ages 5 - 15

• Friday, October 24th: Fall Conference Day No School

• Halloween Fun! October 31 - Costume Parade (school day) and Boo Bash 4 - 7 pm  

• 11/3 No School - Bull and Bread Day - David Hamilton Jackson

• 11/24 - 11/28 No School - Fall Break

    

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Fun Run Fundraiser
• October Birthday's - Amira and Quin!
• Welcome Indigo to the 3rd Grade Group!

• Math

• Numbers and number system
• counting and sequences
• negative integers
• reading a thermometer - positive and negative
• place value - multiplying/dividing by the value of 10 and 100's 
• Rounding to the nearest 10's and 100's place value

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)

• My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
• The Third Grade Reader by Curious Bee
• Donavan's Word Jar by Monalisa DeGross
• The Best Weekend Ever 
• Spelling words in class work - son, sun, sum, some, patches, from, glasses, foxes, halves, plain, plane, missed, mist, exhale, reptile, confuse, athlete, inside, cave, trombone, flute, mail, male, captive, school, inflate, inflatable, compete, competing, bravely, bravest.
• Working with suffixes - s, es, est, ed, changing the f to a -ves, and adding an extra consonant for the -ing
• Cursive writing

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Hispanic Heritage Month
• How to Predict a Storm from the Cloud Formation
• Weather Around the World
• Bats and Spiders Oh My!

• Homework 
• Nightly reading log - 20+ minutes
• Fundations worksheets
• Math Games