Red Ribbon Week!

10/28-11/1

Pickerington PROUD

  • Congratulations to Peyton Ordubadi as he was awarded the PROUD Award for the month of September. Way to go Peyton!

Announcements


  • October 28-November 1: Red Ribbon Week 
    • Each day has a different theme in which your child can choose to participate. 
    • Monday: Wear Red (Red mustaches will be given at school) 
    • Tuesday- Wear mixed up/mismatched clothes and/or hair
    • Wednesday- PJ day
    • Thursday- Wear orange and black
    • Friday- Wear your favorite football team attire
  • November 5- No School: Election Day
  • November 8th: Book Fair & Kiss Luncheon!
  • November 13th: Veteran's Day Assembly at 9:45am. Parents are welcome! 
  • November 19th- I-Ready Progress Monitoring
  • November 20th: PTO Meeting
  • November 27-29- No School: Thanksgiving Break 

English Language Arts 

Last Week: The focus of the week: How does setting affect the characters or speakers in a text? 

Through the text and video of "All Summer in a Day," we learned about how the time and place of a story often leads our characters to act a certain way. We made a deeper connection to the text and learned how the characters actions in a story, teach the readers a lesson about life. We ended the week by writing down a theme of the story (a lesson taught in the text about life) and we shared our ideas through a "snowball fight." Check out a video of our snowball fight on Class Dojo! 
The video we watched is linked in 3 parts below. 

"All Summer in a Day" part 1



This Week: 

  • The focus of the week: theme, sensory details, narrative writing, and extreme environments.
  • We will be moving on to identify the elements of theme and sensory details using the poems "Dust of Snow" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." We have read these poems before but we have not discussed these elements yet. 
  • We will be using these poems to build our knowledge of narrative writing. 
  • We will be utilizing our next nonfiction text Mountains to understand what elements make an environment extreme. 

Math- Module 3: Area and Perimeter, Multi-digit Multiplication and Division

* Please support your student at home by practicing basic multiplication facts each night. This skill is going to be essential as we move forward the remainder of the year. 

This week: We will be...
  • Finishing our topic of multiplicative comparisons in word problems (this uses our new knowledge of area and perimeter)
  • Demonstrate understanding of area and perimeter formulas by solving multi-step word problems
  • Multiply by 10, 100, and 1,000
    • Interpret and represent patterns when multiplying by 10, 100, and 1,000 in arrays and numerically.
    • Multiply multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000 by single digits, recognizing patterns. 
    • Multiply two digit multiples of 10 by two digits multiples of 10 with the area model. 

Social Studies

Last week we started to learn about the Paleoindian people as well as the Archaic Indian people. Students will finish their research as well as their activity we started during E&I time this week. Through the research, students discovered that these were the first two groups of people that lived in Ohio. We discovered what types of homes, tools, and food they had as well as how these groups were similar and different. This week, we will be moving on to the next group of native peoples in America.

Science

This week, we will be conducting an experiment to discover what force is strong enough to make a canyon. This experiment will take place on Tuesday during our Science class. All students will be working in groups to develop a canyon made of cornmeal. We will be simulating a rain storm to show how water causes erosion of land to create canyons.

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