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Halloween Thurs. 10/31Students MAY wear Halloween costumes to school. We will be participating in a Halloween parade on the playground, 8:40-9:00am. Riley Class Party: Room 108, 1:30-2:30pm Costumes must be appropriate for the school setting and follow our general school dress code policy. All students should wear school appropriate shoes. Please, no violent costumes, no masks, no weapons, toys or other large accessories, and NO candy can be brought to school for snacks/lunch. | Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Optional: Our students have their boxes at school! https://www.unicefusa.org/trick-or-treat
Since 1950, kids have been going door-to-door on Halloween with orange donation boxes. The money that is donated goes toward providing children around the world with clean water, nutrition, medicine, and educational resources. So far, more than $175 million have been collected through Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF! | Operation Gratitude 11/1-11/7Our student leadership council is sponsoring a service project called “Operation Gratitude”. Students can bring in their Halloween candy and/or a letter of gratitude to a soldier to donate to the troops. Operation Gratitude will make sure it gets to soldiers overseas. Donations accepted in classrooms Nov. 1st – 7th. |
Halloween Thurs. 10/31
Students MAY wear Halloween costumes to school.
We will be participating in a Halloween parade on the playground, 8:40-9:00am.
Riley Class Party: Room 108, 1:30-2:30pm
Costumes must be appropriate for the school setting and follow our general school dress code policy. All students should wear school appropriate shoes. Please, no violent costumes, no masks, no weapons, toys or other large accessories, and NO candy can be brought to school for snacks/lunch.
Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF
https://www.unicefusa.org/trick-or-treat
Since 1950, kids have been going door-to-door on Halloween with orange donation boxes. The money that is donated goes toward providing children around the world with clean water, nutrition, medicine, and educational resources. So far, more than $175 million have been collected through Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF!
Operation Gratitude 11/1-11/7
Our student leadership council is sponsoring a service project called “Operation Gratitude”. Students can bring in their Halloween candy and/or a letter of gratitude to a soldier to donate to the troops. Operation Gratitude will make sure it gets to soldiers overseas.
Donations accepted in classrooms Nov. 1st – 7th.
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Ratio & Proportions Students are finishing up Module 1 concepts and will begin Number Sense with fraction operations. Check out support link: https://lpssonline.com/site5524.php Newsletters, parent tips, & videos to help with CA math standards. | Math Olympiad Contest #1 Our first contest is Tues. Nov. 12th during math class. There are 5 total contests this year, with 5 questions each! We rehearse every Friday morning in homeroom. Thanks to several parent volunteers: Mrs. Nordlicht, Mr. Ji, Mrs. Liew, Mrs. Francisco, Mr. & Mrs. Xie! | Khan Academy Students are using Khan for math- this is a GREAT opportunity for extra review & also acceleration. The lessons correlate with our standards. https://www.khanacademy.org |
Ratio & Proportions
Check out support link:
https://lpssonline.com/site5524.php
Newsletters, parent tips, & videos to help with CA math standards.
Math Olympiad Contest #1
There are 5 total contests this year, with 5 questions each! We rehearse every Friday morning in homeroom. Thanks to several parent volunteers: Mrs. Nordlicht, Mr. Ji, Mrs. Liew, Mrs. Francisco, Mr. & Mrs. Xie!
Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org
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Thrively | TED-Ed ClubWe are a registered TED-Ed Club in Room 108! https://ed.ted.com/about | The Leader In Me Watch an overview of all 7 Habits, these are discussed and celebrated school-wide! https://youtu.be/eOpKziGrxSE |
TED-Ed Club
We are a registered TED-Ed Club in Room 108! https://ed.ted.com/about
"TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything they do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos , to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills."
The Leader In Me
https://youtu.be/eOpKziGrxSE
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Small Steps : The Year I Got Polio We're finishing up a memoir by Peg Kehret. "In a riveting story of courage and hope, Peg Kehret writes about months spent in a hospital when she was twelve, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly learning to walk again." http://www.pegkehret.com/ | Word Masters Challenge The WordMasters Challenge™ helps students to think both analytically and metaphorically. The contest addresses higher-level word comprehension and verbal reasoning. | NEWSELA NonFiction Newsela allows students to read articles and complete quizzes, writing responses, annotations, and Power Words activities. Every day, Newsela publishes new articles about what's happening in the world and other nonfiction topics. You can read articles that you find on your own and articles that a teacher assigns to your class. https://newsela.com/ |
Small Steps : The Year I Got Polio
"In a riveting story of courage and hope, Peg Kehret writes about months spent in a hospital when she was twelve, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly learning to walk again."
http://www.pegkehret.com/
Word Masters Challenge
The WordMasters Challenge™ helps students to think both analytically and metaphorically. The contest addresses higher-level word comprehension and verbal reasoning.
Our 1st analogy challenge, 20 questions, will be Thurs. 11/7.
https://quizlet.com/436336078/word-masters-list-1-2019-flash-cards/
NEWSELA NonFiction
https://newsela.com/
