HW - Tuesday, 10/13

Parents:

• TOMORROW is Picture Day.
• Ruskin's Fourth Grade teachers have a training this Wednesday and will be out after class pictures are taken.
• Tomorrow, the students will be watching the movie adaptation of Island of the Blue Dolphins form 1964. A good video which, I feel, is totally appropriate for kids compared to what's on TV these days. Previous classes have seen it and enjoyed it. Amazingly, there hasn't been a more recent, better version done since. (I just found out through some searching that the kid actor who plays Ramo, a Filipino-American named Larry Domasin, is the great-uncle of Hailee Steinfeld, the actress/singer from True Grit, Ender's Game, and Pitch Perfect 2 (and 3).) Here are links to the movie's synopsis as well as some reviews: IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.
• Thursday is our second Spirit Day: Wear Pink for Stand Up to Cancer Awareness
• Our class t-shirt has been chosen! We will be the LUCKY SNOW LEOPARDS and Joanie's picture was selected as the cover art for the light blue shirt with gold lettering (barring production issues). The company we will be using is Insane Ink, a longstanding class business at Piedmont Hills High School, which is staffed by former Ruskin students. Hallie, the account manager for our school, will be mocking up the t-shirt sample next week. Order forms will be in the Wednesday Folder tomorrow. I am still missing ONE order form.
• Thank you to the parents who have submitted classroom donations!

1.  Read for 30 min. 
Sharks Reading Is Cool goal for the month: MOST PAGES READ
HAVE YOU BEEN ENTERING YOUR PAGES?!

2.  Language Arts

• Spelling Activity (TWO due by Friday) / Spelling Test
• Wordly Wise #6c-d / Test on Friday
• Keep writing story ideas for your Harris Burdick picture

3.  Math

• TEXT pgs. 94-95
• WKBK pgs. R / P 4-1; R 4-2
• Mindbenders #10 (do NOT do any others beyond #10!)

4.   History pgs. 45-48

5.   Science pgs. 78-79 / Open Book Chapter 2 Science Test on Thursday