Please have your child bring ONE favorite piece of candy from Halloween on November 1^st.  They will get to eat it sometime during the day.  J We'll also be gathering data using candy as our topic.

Seeing grades online: Please let me know if you need the directions again. I can have the office print them out and send them home with your child.

Parent Teacher Conferences:

Notices (on bright pink paper) went home on WEDNESDAY. Please call me ASAP if there is a problem with the time you got. I only received about half of the conference slips back.

Upcoming dates:

Red Ribbon Week is this week!

Monday………………………………………….Tie Dye

Tuesday…………………………………………Necktie

Wednesday……………….Don’t stink, wear pink

Thursday………………………………….Crazy socks

Friday…………………………………..Favorite team

Thursday…………………….7:30 Donuts for Dads

Friday…………………………………End 1st Quarter

Tuesday, Oct 30^th………..Report cards go home

Wednesday, Oct 31^th………….Thursday, Oct 31^st

Parent Teacher Conferences….noon dismissal

Monday, OCTOBER 29
RMC presents its annual Halloween Spook-tacular Chemistry Magic Show.. The shows will be at 9 a.m. and at 3:30 p.m. in Fortin 102 auditorium. The public is welcome to attend. The RMC  Chemical Magic class (Morgan Morales, Adam Schweber, Geirint Sis, and Anne Wylie) will perform the demonstrations, including ghostly ectoplasm, enchanted wine, screaming gummy bear, and self-carving pumpkins. Great fun for kids. For more information: Dr. Gavin Kirton, RMC   associate professor, chemistry, ( 406) 238.7377 / E-mail: gavin.kirton@rocky.edu

Reading

5^th graders: We are back in our Lead 21 Readers. One group is reading about hibernation and the other one is reading about the deep ocean.

Skills: Main idea, summaries, tone & mood, opinions & facts. We’ll be doing these for about 2 weeks.

6^th graders: Students continue with The Year of the Hangman and Bound.

Language

Skills: Plurals (spelling—changing “y” to “i” and adding “es”); possessives

Writing--Expository: More “stop light format” writing (introductory sentence/paragraph, main ideas & supporting details, conclusion sentence/paragraph). We’ll be writing about Halloween these next 2 weeks.

LWR—helio

Spelling—U 9 is at the end of the blog. The students are getting better with regard to PSL. That’s the goal!! J

Math

5^th graders: Fractions

6^th graders: Proportions and Ratios

5^th grade Social Studies

Chapter 3 test this week on Thursday.

Science—More robots. Most students have determined the ratio of # of degrees for a rotation of the wheel: the # of cm the robot moves.

Robot Club: For those who would like to continue exploring programming and robotic challenges. No fee, just fun!  J It will begin on Wednesday, November 7^th and run through Wednesday, December 12^th from 3:15 – 4:15. There is one exception--  The second club meeting will be on Tuesday, November 13^th.  I will be out of town on the 14^th  of November.

LWR  for the week of Oct 22^nd

Focus: helio

Prefix:

Root:

centr                 center

graph                write, written

metr                  measure

helio                 sun

phil          loving, love

scop                  look, view

Suffix:

-ic                      like, related to

5^th grade spelling words for the week of Oct 22^nd

Unit 9 Homophones (Yikes!)

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    The  new bridge is made of steel.

2.    Please return the overdue library book.

3.    Please see who’s at the door.

steal, aloud, allowed, pore, pour, lesson, lessen, whose, manor, manner, pedal, peddle, berry, bury, hanger, hangar, overdo

CHALLENGE WORDS

canvass (to gather votes or opinions), canvas (what an artist paints on), site (a place for a particular activity), sight, cite (to specify a source used in research)

6^th grade spelling words for the week of Oct 22^nd  

Unit 9       Final /un/, /ul/, and /er/  sounds

BASIC WORDS

3 Dictation Sentences

1.    Bees collect pollen from the flowers.

2.    Doctors counsel people to eat well.

3.    Every soldier prepared for battle.

gallon, abandon, salmon, citizen, oxygen, triangle, mental, panel, cancel, rival, recycle, rural, vehicle, physical, error, litter, monitor

CHALLENGE WORDS

punctual, endeavor, abdomen, kilometer, dandelion

Real World Challenge Science—Earth’s Layers of Gases

atmosphere, nitrogen, troposphere, stratosphere, ozone, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere