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October 19, 2025
October 19, 2025
BOOK CHARACTER PUMPKIN BOOK REPORTS
For this fun and creative project, students will choose their favorite book character, decorate a pie-sized pumpkin to look like that character, and complete a short book report about their story.
This is a wonderful opportunity for families to work together and get creative while celebrating a love of reading!
A few reminders:
Pumpkins must be pie-sized (small).
No holes, carving, blood, or gore — decorations only!
Characters and books must be school appropriate.
Pumpkins that do not meet these guidelines will be returned home that day.
All finished pumpkins will be proudly displayed in the library for everyone to enjoy!
This activity is for fun and not for a grade. It is optional.
PUMPKINS NEED TO BE BROUGHT TO SCHOOL EARLY NEXT WEEK
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Upcoming Curriculum
Upcoming Curriculum
Reading/Language Arts
I can write complete legibly in cursive leaving appropriate spaces between words.
I can identify root words and their meanings.
I can identify adverbs and their purpose within a sentence.
I can explain how an author uses text features to achieve a specific purpose.
I can identify the relationships between words and apply those relationships to complete analogies.
I can explain what the "E" stands for and how it is used in the RACES writing strategy.
I can draft the beginning and middle paragraphs of my personal narrative.
Math
I can use equal groups and repeated addition to represent multiplication.
I can use arrays and area models to determine a total number of objects.
Science
October 14-November 7
I can identify everyday examples of energy including light, sound, and thermal energy.
Social Studies
I can identify characteristics of good citizenship.
EVENTS
EVENTS
October 20 - Chess Club after school
October 21 - library (both classes)
DI after school
October 22 - Hatchling Choir
Monday, October 27 - Friday, October 31 Red Ribbon Week
MATH CORNER
MATH CORNER
Multiplication and Division Basics
Unit Summary: October 14-November 21
Students represent multiplication facts through the use of context. These contextual situations provide real-life experiences and enable students to contstruct multiplication models (concrete, pictorial, and area models), equal groups arrays, strip diagrams, and equations in a relevant way. Students explore the commutative, distributive, and associative properties of multiplication in order to provide the foundation needed to learn, retain and apply basic multiplication facts up to 10 x 10.
Students use the sharing or partitioning model, as well as repeated subtraction model, to connect understandings about multiplication to division. Through concrete and pictorial models of equal groups, arrays, and area models, students explore the mathematical relationships within and between multiplication and division. Students use multiplication and division facts, to construe division models. Various strategies, including the inverse relationship, are applied to solve contextual one-step multiplication and division problems with products and dividends within 100.
Students are introduced to the divisibility rule of 2 and/or partitioning into two equal groups to determine if a number is odd or even.
GT Corner
GT Corner
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