Weekly Update

Thank you to all who attended Parent/ Teacher Conferences and the Open House last night.  We love the participation from our families in our Innov8ors University!

Literacy:
Students are working on picking out main ideas and important details within our non-fiction reading.  This has been done through modeling, guided practice, and independent tasks within our Nutrition and Health unit.   Eventually, this will lead to writing strong summaries of our reading.
Students are meeting with various teachers reading realistic fiction books and working on retelling and character development.  Students are given various assignments and may have to take this home in order to complete it on time.
We did not work on Words Their Way this week due to the shortened week.  We worked on Language Arts skills within the Moby Max website and reviewing testing strategies.  We will continue with Words their Way next week.  Students must get their Words their Way assignments done through the week in order to participate in the Fun Friday activity of the week.
Students need to continue to work on reading Achieve articles and doing activities/ thought questions. We ask all students to do a minimum of 3 per week because research shows students reading levels will increase by the end of the year if they complete this many lessons.   As a POD, we assign three articles that relate to our Inquiry topic on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; students are welcome to also pick choice articles as well.
In writing, we brainstormed about topics that we know a lot about and then wrote facts that we could teach about those topics.  We then will take these prewriting activities to write as an expert to teach others about that topic.
In Inquiry, students are starting to investigate topics within our inquiry unit to research.  Students will relate their question to the overriding question "How does health and nutrition affect our human body?"

Math
We continue to develop students' number sense through units that relate to algebra and our base 10 number system.  Students continue to use tools such as Ten Marks to show their learning.  They also started to use Dreambox, another app that encourages students to use math manipulatives and conceptual ideas to reason through answers.

Our school spelling bee will be held on Tuesday, October 29th.  Congratulations to our spelling bee representatives:
Kylee, Allie, Jonathan, Angelina, Robert, and Dakota

Alternates for the spelling bee are:
Luke, Hannah L., Macy, Julian, Matthew F., Gregory