September 30th

Math- Today we had a math test over three digit addition. We have been reviewing for the test this whole week and the students have been doing well! Next week we will be switching gears to work on subtraction. This will be our third unit this year and should take us a couple weeks.

Writing- In writing we have selected our favorite personal narrative we have written so far. Now we are beginning the editing process! This week specifically we worked on drafting interesting leads to start our stories. We learned how to start our stories with dialogue, sounds, questions, and action verbs to keep our readers engaged in our stories.  Next week we will begin to work on adding in character traits and dialogue in our stories.

Science- The past two weeks have been very exciting in science! Our force an motion unit is off to a great start. Last week we defined forces to be a push or a pull. We also experimented with ramps to discover what force pulls things to the ground. This week we learned about air resistance and friction. We designed parachutes in order to help our small animal toys land safely from being launched off the playground! The students did a great job creating effective parachutes.

Sick Day- THANK YOU to all parents who donated things for our “sick day” we had a blast. The kids more than deserved this award this week.

Golden Broom Award- This week our class won the golden broom award. This award is given to the classroom who has the cleanest room. I am thrilled we have finally won this award! It was much deserved!

Reading Log- I have sent home the October reading log today with students. I will continue to check the reading log on Fridays for that week. Make sure that your student is reading  20 minutes a night!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Rutledge
Krutledge@cpsk12.org