News for the Week of October 26, 2105

Life Skill:  Common Sense
Quote:  If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
                                                              --Sam Rayburn

Captain's Table of "STAR" Students

(STAR = Stop, Think, Act Responsibly)

                                                   Student                     Life Skill                           

1st Grade Math                           Kylee                        Curiosity  
                             

2nd Grade LA                              Bailey                   Responsibility
2nd Grade Math                          Jacob                    Responsibility

3rd Grade LA                               Logan                   Perseverance
3rd Grade Math                             DJ                      Responsibility

4th Grade LA                               Hilary                     Creativity
                                                       Ella                        Creativity
4th Grade Math                           Jacob                     Perseverance

This Week In HA...

1st-  4th Grade LA

This week, all of the students in 2nd through 4th grade finished their persuasive paragraphs, which explained one generalization of the term "connection" for 2nd grade and "change" for grades 3rd and 4th and provided supporting examples.  Afterwards, we moved on to some fun Halloween activities. As a part of a Halloween Mad Lib activity, all of the students discussed and identified the following parts of speech:

• Noun
• Pronoun
• Adjective
• Verb
• Adverb
• Article

Ask your child to explain these parts of speech and give you an example of each.  Those students, who completed their Mad Lib activity, created a paragraph on the following topics for Halloween:

1st Grade - Describe your Halloween costume and why you chose this costume.
2nd & 3rd Grade - What's on the other side of this creepy dark door and what will happen when the girl opens the door?
4th Grade - Does your town have any local legends?  Make up a story about a monster, ghost or alien that might live in your town.

Ask your child to tell you about the story he/she developed.

Building Vocabulary

The "Words of the Day" for this week were discernment and retrospect.  Ask your child to define these words for you.  If he/she can't remember the definition, have him/her look up the definitions in the dictionary.                                                  

1st - 4th Grade Math

This week in math, all of the HA students completed Halloween themed math packets, which contained some fun math activities, as well as, addressed skills identified on the pre-assessments in need of further practice.  Ask your child to show you his/her Halloween math packet and ask him/her to show you how to complete some of the problems leftover from class.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe Halloween!  Enjoy trick-or-treating!

Melissa Valtierra
High Ability Aide
Bailly Elementary School