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Another name for 64,037 is sixty four thousand, thirty seven. Numbers can be given in word form. Be careful not to say sixty four thousand AND thirty seven because that would make it a decimal number! Good work to most of the kids who voted! Please try our new poll!

Week 7

Thank you to all the internet connected families who read this blog! By doing this, you are helping PS 154 save paper and be a greener school.

The school has placed an order for copies of the Take Home Student Reference Book for each student in our class. Until we receive them, your child has permission to take home the class copy. Students are also encourage to bring home their notebooks whenever they feel the need to, as long as the notebook is returned the next day.

Here are some events to note for this upcoming week:

• On Tuesday, we will be headed to the Armory! Please make sure your child wears sneakers and clothes that are appropriate for physical activity.
• Please look for a Behavior and Effort Progress Report in your child's Homework folder this Tuesday. This is not a report card but will hopefully give you some idea about how your child's behavior is in class. 
• On Thursday, we will head over to Green Meadows to participate in the Festival of Cultures. We have six wonderful parent chaperones going with us. If you have signed up to be a chaperone, please expect a letter with more details on Monday.

Have a beautiful weekend!

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Week 6

It was great to see how many parents came to our Curriculum Conference on Wednesday! It was all too brief but I hope the information was helpful. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please send a note with your child to me and I will do my best to answer it.

In regard to some concerns about math, please note that there is now a link on this website to the Everyday Math Website Mr. Havlik mentioned at the meeting. It is located under the Math links, labeled Everyday Math Homework Help. Mr. Havlik is also looking into ordering Take Home copies of the Student Reference book for our class.

Here are some events coming up for the week starting October 18:

• School is closed on Monday for Columbus Day.
• Our Personal Narratives were well received by the many parents who came to read our stories this First Friday! The next unit of writing will build on our narrative skills. We will make short Realistic Fiction stories. Children will work on developing a story with a plotline, believable characters and a moral.  We will  continue practicing our show not tell strategies, such as descriptive writing and using similes/metaphors to describe.
• We also began a new unit in math today. This unit will focus on Numeration and Data, which includes exploring place value into the billions, and creating charts and line plots.

We have booked our first trip for October 20th. The fourth grade is going to a Festival of Cultures in Green Meadows Park to experience the culture of the Native People of New York.  Please send in your child's permission slip and admission if you have not already done so. Many thanks to the parents who have already replied and to those who have volunteered to be chaperones. I will contact you with more information about chaperone duty soon. 

Thank you very much for your support! Here are some pictures from our first Music class as we learn to read sheet music!

Have a fantastic weekend!

What is Realistic Fiction?

As we start this new reading unit, please be aware that not only will children read realistic fiction, but historical fiction as well. Historic fiction is considered a subcategory of realistic fiction since these are stories that could have happened in real life. In historical fiction, setting (time and place) has a greater impact on the characters' behavior, especially in gender roles.