• Thank you for continuing to review your child's Weekly Reflection!  Reflection and goal-setting are lifelong habits worth cultivating. 
• Please consider signing up to help to Cultural Night on October 2nd.  
• On Monday, Crestwood will have an Intruder Drill in the afternoon.  We will discuss the procedures for this drill but not have much discussion beyond that.  Students usually come up with many "What if...?" questions, so you may want to touch base over the weekend or on Monday depending on what you feel is best for your child.  

Friday, September 25

No School, Professional Development Day for teachers

Monday, September 28

Chess Club

Tuesday, September 29

Wednesday, September 30

Picture Day

Thursday, October 1

Friday, October 2

Cultural Day & Night, 6:30-8:00 pm

Science

Students started a unit with Mrs. Branding this week and focused on learning the scientific method.  

Parker and Madison record observations about a leaf from our playground.


Brenden, Aniya, & Monissa practice measuring.


Ivy, Sanni, & Autumn work together to measure the mass of different objects.

Math

Rocket Math is really helping us to improve our multiplication fluency!  We practice a few days week and do a monthly assessment.  Our class average grew 11 points this month!

We also practiced addition and subtraction with whole numbers.  Students learned and used important math terms like addends, sum, minuend, subtrahend, and difference.  

Reader's Workshop
As a class, we are reading Kate DiCamillo's The Tiger Rising.  We've harvested, or collected, a few words from the story so far.  Words we want to incorporate into our speaking and writing include lurch, defiant, and gravelly.  Students also learned about retelling and synthesizing a story.  To retell means to tell the big events in the order they occurred.  To synthesize means to talk about the part you just read and how it relates to the big picture.  

 

Writer's Workshop 

We are drafting away on our Realistic Fiction stories, and students have been working so hard!  We learned that authors of RF use paragraphs to organize their writing.  They begin a new paragraph when the setting changes, when a new character talks, and when time moves.  Students also learned a few specific strategies to stretch a moment.  One way to do this is to add the character's inner thinking.  Adding inner thinking shows the reader the character's motives and emotions. Writers can also show action by describing the character's body movements.

Writing partners, Haylee & Ivy, work together to stretch a moment.  

Sanni uses a whisper to read his work aloud before moving forward.  

Aniya & Jayden take some "good" writing and make it even better by stretching the moment. 

Brenden, Aniya, & Jayden teach the class some new strategies for stretching a moment.