HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Remember to wear your costume to school in the morning! The parade starts at 9:15 and we'll have our class party afterwards. It will be a fun filled, spooky day!

Friday In Class

WRITING
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/

Math
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/great_graphs_5/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/activities/interpretingdata.shtml
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/e/dataingraphs3p.cfm

Bar graphs
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/grapher.html
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/e/readinggraphs3p.cfm

Pictographs
http://www.haelmedia.com/html/mc_m2_001.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/lets_graph/
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/e/pictographs3p.cfm

Line graphs
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/linegra4l.cfm
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/linegraph4p.cfm

Grant for technology

If students or parents are interested in seeing more technolgy in the classroom, check this out! I know that I'll be writing an essay, but I think more essays won't hurt :)

Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope -- a goodwill program designed to minimize the technology gap in the U.S. educational system --recently announced a 100-word national essay contest that calls upon parents, students, and teachers across the U.S. to improve technology in classrooms by submitting an essay for the chance to win a portion of over $1 million in technology from Samsung.The initiative will reward winning writers with a Samsung GO Netbook and their local schools with cutting edge Samsung products, Microsoft software, DIRECTV educational television programming and cash grants as well as special @15 gift cards supplied by Best Buy.

Follow this link for more details.
http://pages.samsung.com/us/4seasons_hope/education.jsp

Dates to remember...

I hope you all had a wonderful fall break! It was so nice. Here are a few things to remember for October:

• Eat lunch with your parents! October 12-16



• Red Ribbon Week October 12-16



• Steve James Assembly 7pm October 12



• School Pictures October 13



• Reflections Due October 23



• Halloween Parade and party October 29



• End of term October 29



• October 29th is also a 1/2 day



• No school October 30th

This month some of our big ideas are: Maps and geography, the moon, habitats, living and nonliving things, clarifying our reading, graphs, comparing numbers, and lots more :)