- Conference schedule notices will go out twice: via a small note home and via an email reminder on Friday. Conference week is November 14-18 and 28. They are 1:00 dismissal days.
- I will have a substitute on Monday due to report card preparation.
- November 11 is Veterans' Day, an federal and state holiday so there will be NO SCHOOL.
- Due to errors in the computer program, I will be reviewing the math tests students have been taking online. Unfortunately, the online program was marking answers like 4539 incorrect because there wasn't a comma (4,539). Also, if the order of some numbers were wrong, for example when a student was executing the expanded algorithm for multiplication, then the computer gave zero to fractional credit despite the correctness of the partial products. It will be a time-consuming task and the Topic 6 test may be the last online math test we are going to take this year for quite some time.
- As a class, we are participating with some other Ruskin classes in the Trick or Treat for UNICEF. This is optional but students have learned about what UNICEF does around the world. We will count the collected money in class on Thursday, 11/3. We will then total the collections, and I will take them to the nearest Coinstar, which is processing the donations without a fee. The receipt is then mailed to UNICEF. Afterwards, I will share on the Blog how much we have donated and what that roughly helps purchase for UNICEF's causes. To learn more, please visit www.unicefusa.org/trick-or-treat.
- We have started two Reading Log programs for October: Book It!, sponsored by Pizza Hut, and Reading is Cool, sponsored by the San Jose Sharks. Students who complete the monthly reading log get a coupon for a free personal pizza and entered for possible prizes from the Sharks.
- Congratulations to Andrea, who had the winning design for our t-shirt! (We are the "Popularly Peaceful Pandas")
- UPDATE: The printing started on Friday!
- Here is the FINAL revision:
- PTA News: See more at ruskinpta.weebly.com
1. Read for 30 min. *READING LOGS are due by Friday, 12/2*
2. Language Arts
- Wordly Wise 10e; Topic 10 test on Friday
- Wordly Wise Review Packet (Lessons 1-10) due Monday
- Students should start preparing for the end of the unit tests on Tuesday.
- Time for Kids
- This week's issue WAS passed out today
- Open magazine quiz next Monday
3. Math
- TEXT pgs. 163
- WORK pgs. R 6-4; R 6-5
4. History
- TEXT pgs. none
- TEXT pgs. 126-127 (write a paragraph responding to both tasks)
6. Music Tomorrow
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