Happy BBQ Friday!

Chicken BBQ is TOMORROW!

• Our HUGE PTA Fundraiser is tomorrow, October 13 from 4 p.m.-8 p.m.!
• PTA provides the school with so many amazing opportunities for the school.  This is their main fundraiser for the year.
• Come by to have a yummy chicken dinner, do some shopping at the silent auction (the list came home yesterday) and play some games!
• Game tickets and meal tickets are available for purchase tomorrow if you weren't able to pre-order.
• If you're short on time, we have a drive thru that is very efficient.  
• Ms. Mottaz and I will be working at the drive thru from 4-6, so be sure to stop by and say hi.

Early Dismissal: October 16 at 12:10

• Please let us know if your student is getting home a different way than normal.

Veteran's Day Pictures

• Our Veteran's Day assembly is next month.  Mrs. Sharp is collecting pictures of veterans that are family members of RBE faculty, staff and students.  If you would like to send in a picture of a veteran for the veteran's wall, then I will send home the information sheet for you to fill out to go with the picture.  

Runge Field Date Change: May 10

• Due to Truman Day, we had to reschedule our Runge Field Trip.  Our new date is Friday, May 10.  Parents are welcome on this trip, so we want to get the date to you as early as possible so you can take off work if needed.  

Math Test

• Your student's Unit 2 Math Test came home on Wednesday.  If you haven't done so already, please review the test with your student, then sign and return it to school.

Pumpkin Book Project

• We sent home information this week about our pumpkin book project. Please be talking with your student to identify a  book character they want to create using a pumpkin.  Next week, we will be sending home a paper where students will tell us the title of the book for their character and the name of their character.  We will also be asking if they have a pumpkin.  Please help them fill this out when it comes home next week.

Friday Folders
Family Eat Out

• Our next Family Eat Out Night is at Jersey Mike's on October 16-17.  This is a great excuse to not make dinner while supporting RBE at the same time.  
• 30% of the profits will come back to RBE!

Dental Screening

• Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and RBE are offering dental screenings again this year.  If you would like your student to participate, please fill out the form and return it to school.  

Unit 3 Parent Letter

• We started Unit 3 in math today.  Unit 3 covers subtraction strategies.  We will teach the students a variety of strategies to use and then they can use the strategies that work best for them.  
• Please continue practicing basic facts at home with students.  Students are learning strategies for addition and subtraction facts, but it is important as students progress in math for them to know the facts in a snap.  

Unit 5 Fundations

• We started Unit 5 in Fundations today.  It focuses on multi-syllabic words.  We will be learning about different ways to identify where the syllable break occurs as well as how to mark up multi-syllabic words.
• Please continue to practice trick words with your students at home.  If you need another copy of trick words, please let us know.  Trick words are words that do not follow a pattern and students are expected to be able to read and write.  

Next Week's Learning
Math

• We will be learning how to use addition sentences to help solve subtraction problems as well as the counting up and counting back.  We will also be learning about different type of subtraction problems.  We will be building fact families which is creating 2 addition and 2 subtraction problems with the same 4 numbers (4+5=9; 5+4=9; 9-5=4; 9-4=5).  

Reading

• Next week, we will be learning about the theme of a book.  We will talk about what the author wants us to take away from the book.  Students at Hickman High School wrote children's books in their creative writing class and we will be using these to discuss the theme.  This can be a more difficult concept for students so we will be working on theme for the next two weeks. 

Writing

• We are on the tail end of publishing our first personal narrative.  Yeah!!!  Next week, we will finish it up and then start our second personal narrative piece.  Our goal is to have the second one finished by parent teacher conferences so we can share both with you at conferences.
• We worked on editing and revising this week.  We talked about the importance of capital letters and punctuation on our sentences.  The students have a lot of good ideas, but often write them as one giant sentence.  We are talking about finding the nature breaks and making them separate sentences.  

Science

• This week, we continued to talk about birds and their adaptations.  Today, the students were able to create their own bird, but had to justify their choices by telling how their adaptation choices would impact what their bird eats, what their bird does, and where their bird lives.
• Building a Bird: http://projectbeak.org/adaptations/build.htm
• We showed this website to students today.  They started to design a bird today from their imagination.  If they wanted to play with this website over the weekend or next week to build their own bird, they enjoyed doing it today as a whole group and some students played around on this website during inside recess.
• Next week, we will go back to learning about properties of materials.  Your child should already be able to describe the three states of matter.  We will now be diving deeper into properties and the students will be describing different materials (metal, plastic, wood, ceramic) by their properties (color, texture, hardness, flexibility, strength, absorbency and shininess).

Have a fabulous weekend and hope to see you at the BBQ!