Week of November 10th

 We are cruising right through November and Quarter 2 so quickly! This is a great group of kids and you should all be proud of the wonderful young people you are raising. :)

ELA:

This week in ELA we are going to be reading non-fiction texts about Veteran's Day. We are also going to be interviewing a veteran tomorrow and learning about his time in the service. 

We finished up all of our suffixes last week in our Morpheme Lexicon. Today we started adding in prefixes. We will move through these quicker than we will the roots and bases since it is mostly a review for the students. 

Math:

We are continuing our work on long division this week. Students will be learning a few different strategies on how to solve these problems, just like with multiplication. The goal is for them to use the standard algorithm, but until their brains are developmentally ready for that they will have other strategies to use. 

Enrichment:

Your student had their first enrichment class last Thursday. We will have another this Thursday as well and it will go from 12:15-1:00. Students will have Enrichment classes on November 13th, 20th, December 4th, and 11th. To attend Enrichment, students cannot have any missing work. If they have work that is missing (including reading calendars and multiplication fact homework), they will use that time to get caught up in the hallway. 

K-5 VCS Food Drive:

Our food drive will be running from November 10th-13th. Elementary students need to bring items to the class. Please make sure the canned food that your student brings are non-perishable and not expired. The 3rd-5th grade class that brings the most will get a popcorn and juice party. Everything brought in will go to benefit our own VCS families in need!