Field Trip to Leo Carrillo Ranch

Room 37 News Issue 10 November 7, 2016 Mrs. Keyes Please note: I will close the online sign up this Wednesday so that I can prepare my upcoming Monday conference schedule. *Any changes made to your conference date/time MUST be made by email sent directly to me by Thursday, November 10th. Thank you!

Important Announcements: Veterans’ Day Our Student Council will be having a spirit day to celebrate and honor our Field Trip to Leo Carrillo Ranch U.S. Veterans on Thursday, To reinforce our study of California’s November 10th. Students are history, our class will be visiting the encouraged to wear red, white, blue Leo Carrillo Ranch on the morning and/or camouflage. We will have a of Tuesday, November 8th. Your short assembly on the black top at child should arrive to school at the 8:45 AM on Thursday, November normal time. We will take 10th. attendance and leave for the Ranch at 9:00 AM. Please send your child Special Staff Coffee Cart with a disposable lunch/drink as we On Thursday, our staff will host a will eat at the Ranch before we special coffee cart to raise funds for return to LCM. Elaine (Engel) Keswick’s Family. Elaine was a 4th grade teacher at Parent, Teacher, Student LCM. Her newborn daughter was Conferences recently diagnosed with a rare I sent out my online conference sign condition requiring on-going medical up. If you have not had the support and therapies. Thank you opportunity to sign up, please click in advance for visiting our coffee on the following link: cart to support this special family. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10 c0f45afaf2aabfd0-parentteacherstu1 School will be closed on Friday, th th November 11 to observe Veterans’ Conference week is November 14 - Day. 18th. Monday, November 14th is a non-student day so that teachers may hold the majority of their conferences. Tuesday-Friday, Veterans’ Day Visits students will be in school with a I would like to invite any of my modified schedule. Dismissal will Room 37 family members or family be at 1:25 PM on these days. friends to speak to my class about Lunch will be served at school on all their experiences in the military, the modified days. week of November 7th. There is no formal agenda or set amount of time for this visit. I would simply like my students to learn about our military and the sacrifices that are made for our freedom. If you or someone you know may be interested, please let me know. I promise to be flexible with our time so that we can Language Arts accommodate your schedule. (Reading Literature): Our fourth Thank you! unit is, “Understanding Different Points of View” Student Council Food Drive Students will read, discuss, and Our LCM Student Council is having write to answer the a food drive November 7th -18th to question, “What do we learn when help stock our local food banks. All we look at the world through non-perishable food items are the eyes of others?” needed. Peanut butter and canned tuna are specifically requested by This week we will focus on: the food bank. All donations are *Using vocabulary context clues appreciated. *Identifying key events and details of a story Room 37 Fall Feast *Analyzing the author’s point of view I will be hosting a family lunch on Thursday, November 17th. Please Read Aloud: We are reading, join us outside our classroom for Island of the Blue Dolphins by lunch at 12:45 PM. Siblings are Scott O’ Dell. welcome. This a fun tradition for my Room 37 families. I will cook a (Reading Information): turkey, but additional meat, sides, We will begin a short unit on drinks, and supplies will be needed! California’s Explorers. Students will The link to sign up is: read about early Spanish explorers http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10 and how they influenced where we c0f45afaf2aabfd0-room1 live today.

I am looking forward to celebrating Students are completing a cross- the season with you! curricular SS/Math Project. They are planning a trip that includes *Please note that we have students each of the California Regions. with food allergies. Please refrain Students will calculate their miles from using nuts in any recipes. and determine their destinations. Thank you! They will complete a slide show to “document” their “trip” around California. Thanksgiving Break Language Conventions: November 21st-25th, No School (Volume 4 Language Works)

LCM Watch D.O.G.S. Volume 4 Skills Focus: Calling all Room 37 dads, grandpas, *Spelling Pattern: long and Short /o/ uncles, etc….If you are interested in being part of our LCM Watch *Spelling rule: past tense (adding -d D.O.G.S., please see details on our or –ed) school web page! *Punctuation: commas in appositives LEARNING GOALS *Homophones: close/clothes, no/know, role/roll, you’re/your, road/rode/rowed

*Parts of Speech: adjectives *Grammar: identifying sentence P.E.: PE this week: Monday and fragments Thursday. Please remind your child to wear athletic shoes/clothes *Vocabulary: Prefixes (mis-, un-, on these days. non-, dis-) Library: We will meet with Mrs. *Figurative Language: Idioms Schneider in the library on related to fire Wednesdays.

Math: Unit 2, Multiplication and Science Garden/Art: Division We began a 6-week Art unit last Friday! Mrs. Foley will teach this This week we will continue to focus unit. on: Music: We will have music this *Finding partial products of multi- year with Mr. Ball every Friday. digit factors x a one-digit factor STUDENTS OF THE MONTH *Using the area model to show how Stay tuned… the sum of partial products will equal the entire product STUDENT COUNCIL Spirit Day: Military Appreciation *Using the area model to find Day, November 10th quotients with 3 and 4 digit Students may wear red/white/blue dividends and 1 digit divisors. or camouflage clothing to school. No face paint or props, please. *Solving word problems that require more than one mathematical IMPORTANT REMINDERS operation At LCM we make, “Every Minute Count”. Please make sure to have Please continue to encourage your your child at school, each morning, child to work on his/her and on time. If you need to take multiplication facts! your child out of school for an appointment, please make every Writing: Students will complete a effort to do so at the end of the day. reading analysis and response to Thanks for your help! the narrative writing prompt: “Re- write the narrative scene from Here CLASSROOM SUPPLIES: Boy, an excerpt from the novel, Cleaning Wipes Because of Winn Dixie. Write the narrative scene from the perspective Amazon and Target gift cards are of the dog.” always appreciated to replenish materials! Students will focus on: NOVEMBER DATES: *Reading and analyzing a narrative writing prompt November 7th, Fit Kids Session #2 Begins *Rereading texts for details to November 8th, Room 37 Field Trip to support the prompt Leo Carrillo Ranch, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM *Planning a narrative story using a th graphic organizer November 10 , Celebrate our Veterans Day *Drafting a narrative scene using Spirit Day: Wear Red, White, Blue, details and evidence from the story and/or Camouflage

Veterans’ Day (Short) Assembly, Modified Schedule due to 8:45 AM (Families are welcome to Parent/Student/Teacher join us) Conferences, Dismissal at 1:25 PM PTO Meeting, 3:30 PM November 21st-25th, Thanksgiving November 11th, Veterans’ Day, No Break, No School School November 28th, First Day Back to November 14th, School Parent/Student/Teacher November 28th, First Day of the Conferences, No School LCM Holiday Shoppe November 15th, Modified Schedule *Each Wednesday is College Day at due to Parent/Student/Teacher LCM! Wear your favorite college Conferences, Dismissal at 1:25 PM colors. November 16th, Modified Schedule *Each Friday, is LCM School Spirit due to Parent/Student/Teacher Day! Wear your Dolphin Spirit wear Conferences, Dismissal at 1:25 PM or blue! Dine Out, Rubio’s November 17th, Modified Schedule NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS: Happy Birthday to…. due to Parent/Student/Teacher th Conferences, Dismissal at 1:25 PM Treston, November 7 Sophia X., November 10th *Room 37 Fall Family Feast, 12:30 Autumn, November 14th PM November 18th, Friday Flag Salute, 8:45 AM