1. November 2014 Accelerated Reader Reminders Rocky Run is conducting a school-wide initiative to help motivate students to read more books and take more AR quizzes. If the school reaches their goal, then Mr. Roman will be taped to the wall! Although students cannot take their AR quizzes at home, there’s a lot you can do to help them. Remind your student to take quizzes at school. They can be taken in the morning before announcements in the library, on library day, on computer lab day, or on the day their teacher is scheduled to use the iPads. They may also exchange their books for new ones in between their scheduled library day. If your child is reading books from their home library or public library, you can check out the “AR book Find” link under student resources to see if the book is an AR book. If there is anything you need, please let your child’s teacher know. Important Dates in November 11/3 Early Dismissal at 1:10 11/4 No school- Teacher Work Day 11/11-11/14 Report cards will be shared at scheduled conference time 11/26-11/28 Thanksgiving Break Please see the Rocky Run and PTO newsletters for additional information and important dates. Classroom Wish Lists Many parents have asked if they can provide additional supplies for their child’s class. Thank you so much for your generous offers! These are some supplies the teachers would love to receive at any time during the year… hand sanitizer wide ruled notebook paper It’s hard to believe that the first quarter of the school year is over! The teachers are busy preparing report cards, as well as compiling data from assessments and classroom observations to share with you at our first conferences! Conferences are planned for the week of November 10-14. Your child’s teacher has planned specific days and times during the week for her conferences. Please return the conference letter you received as soon as possible. Please indicate your top 3 conference times. We will do our best to schedule your conference at one of those times. The early times fill up fast. We appreciate your understanding! Your child’s teacher will send a confirmation of your time. Conferences are planned in 15 minute intervals. It is important for us to stay on schedule, so please arrive 5 minutes early. If we feel that we need more than 15 minutes to discuss your child’s progress, we will plan to reconvene at another time. We look forward to meeting with you! Addition Quizzes Please read the letter about addition facts that was sent home. Your child should be studying these facts on a daily basis. Your child will sign up at school to take quizzes on the facts they have mastered. The quizzes are timed, so your child must have automatic recall of the facts. The quizzes they take will also count as a mental math grade on the next report card. With each quiz your child takes, they will earn pieces to create a gingerbread house on December 19 th. The number of decorations your child will use will be determined by the addition quizzes they pass.

2. Math -Understand place value through thousands -Use inverse relationships of addition and subtraction to solve related basic fact sentences -Solve single-step and multi-step problems involving the sum or difference of 2 whole numbers, each 9,999 or less, with our without regrouping -Estimate and use U.S. Customary and metric units to measure lengths of objects to the nearest ½ inch, inch, foot, yard, centimeter, and meter -Estimate and measure area and perimeter -Understand the meanings of multiplication and division -Understand that patterns and relationships exist in the facts and can be used to learn and retain facts -Extend the understanding of multiplication and division using 3 models: equal sets or groups, array model, and length model (number line) -Understand the identity and commutative properties of addition and multiplication Language Arts -Understand the features of a realistic fiction story, and apply the features to writing a realistic fiction story -Identify the sequence of events -Summarize and synthesize (make connections) -Read and write multi-syllabic words -Understand how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of base words -Understand and apply the conventions of dialogue -Use singular possessive nouns correctly in writing -Write complete sentences that include correct grammar and mechanics -Improve oral reading fluency -Increase reading stamina Science -Understand and explain cycles that happen in nature (life, earth and moon, tides, water) -Investigate and understand plant and animal life cycles -Identify and use simple and compound machines, and explain the function of each Social Studies -Understand and use map features when reading and constructing maps -Identify the seven continents and five oceans located in the world, the equator, prime meridian, the four hemispheres, and the locations of ancient Greece, Rome, and Mali -Use a grid system to locate places on a map -Identify the contributions of Greece, Rome, and Mali (architecture, government, sports, and storytellers) -Understand how people in Greece, Rome, and Mali adapted to their environment and used resources -Understand how people of Greece, Rome, and Mali specialized in producing goods and were interdependent (relied on trading to obtain goods they could not produce) -Identify Timbuktu as an important city in Mali because of its famous university and large library containing books from ancient Greece and Rome Access to Resources at Home: Your child’s teacher will be providing the students with online login information for the math and social studies textbooks, as well as Benchmark ebooks. This information will be in your child’s agenda. Look for it soon! Please sign up for Class Dojo if you haven’t already! It is a convenient way for teachers to contact parents about upcoming events and for parents to contact teachers. Contact your child’s teacher if you need the login information.