Mrs. Hepburn's Class Newsletter

Castlio Elementary is a community of generous families. This week Student Council is selling turkey feathers for .50 each. Each classroom has a featherless turkey until the students purchase turkey feathers to clothe the class turkey. It's a fun event for the kids to see their class turkey grow exponentially throughout the week with the feathers they have purchased. The best part of this event is the money-raised purchases Christmas gifts for needy children through the Toys for Tots program.

Announcements this week:

The third grade students will switch their Spectra day with the fifth graders this week. The fifth grade students have a special event-taking place on Tuesday; therefore we changed days to accommodate their event.

All students have library on Wednesday.

The second graders will have Spectra on Thursday.

Phonics for the week: Suffixes -ful, -less
breathless, replace, priceless, unlikely, endless, uncover, unlawful, carefully, rebound, painful, thoughtless, forgetful, cheerful, hopefully, fearlessly, humorless, regretful, teaspoonful, boastful, unhealthful

Vocabulary Words:
organism-a form of life like an animal, plant or fungus
pollute-to make unclean or dirty, especially wit harmful chemicals or waste products

Students will:

• write an opinion piece about which natural disaster would be the most destructive to their ecosystem
• describe relationships and cause & effects events in science using real life events such as oil spills, climate changes, pollution, etc.
• research food chains
• create a book trailer on the biography Who is Jane Goodall?
• build relationships with grade level peers by create Glogsters comparing and contrasting themselves with someone they do not know very well

Phonics for the week: Vowel Team -al

final, central, metal, animal, fatal, several, medical, annual, corral, hospital, cereal, petal, normal dismal

Vocabulary Words:

product-something that is sold

geography-the physical characteristics, especially the surface features, of an area

landmark-an object that marks the boundary or location of something

Students will:

• research the 7 continents
• determine important facts vs. just facts
• use text features to locate information more quickly
• identify main purpose of a text and text structure using A Breakfast Story, Biblioburro, The Magical Garden of Claude Monet and Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World
• create a book trailer on the text A Dog's Life
• create an interactive website using their "Flat Me's

Students will:

• *Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the

number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a

number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each. For

example, describe a context in which a number of shares or a number of groups can be expressed as 56 ÷ 8.

• Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
  
• Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation
• true in each of the equations 8 × ? = 48, 5 = __÷ 3, 6 × 6 = ?.

Students will:

• add and subtract two-digit numbers
• regroup numbers while adding and subtracting
• complete single and double digit word problems

Email: carrie.hepburn@fhsdschools.org
Website: http://mrscarriehepburn.blogspot.com/
Phone: 636-851-4341
Twitter: @CarrieHepburn