October 3, 2011

Conferences are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week. Wednesday and Thursday are 1:00 early out days. Conferences start at 1:30. No school Friday.

September Reading Logs are due this week. Remember you can send that information (books read, number of minutes, and your signature) on the reading log, in an email, or on a note. Students also need to hand in the completed 3-D book report with the picture on one side and book teaser on the back. A book teaser should tempt other readers to try the book, without giving away the ending.

Cultural Fair interviews should be completed and shown to Mrs, McGuire this week. I don't keep them, I just want to check for the quality of the questions and make sure it was done. Cultural Fair begins on Oct. 17, so the next step is to begin designing the project. Check out the photos on the http://syracuse6.net/ website.

Math assignments this week deals with decimals: comparing (equal, greater than, and less than), ordering, adding, subtracting, multiplying. Today's assignment asked students to compare a decimal to fraction. The strategy is to divide the numerator of the fraction by the denominator, which turns it into a decimal. For example 3/4 is 3 divided by 4 or .75 Now you have two decimals, so line up the decimal points and compare the digits, going left to right, the same way you read. Hope that helps.

Congratulations to our "Class Good Sports" for September: Kasey, Heather, Angelique, and Aaron! Each month students nominate each other for this honor, explaining the reason they feel someone else has shown good sportsmanship that month. Students who go out of their way to be especially helpful or understanding receive and extra trip to the prize box and the opportunity to vote with two hands every time we vote that month. August winners were Olivia, Gracie, Kaylie, and Jacob. Parents, what you should know is that many students are nominated each month; it is hard to choose just four. You are raising amazing, caring children.