NOHS Homecoming

NOHS will have a Homecoming parade, bonfire, and food trucks on 10/19 from 6-8pm in the NOHS gravel lot. The parade will be held at 6:30pm along Titan Way, and the bonfire/community pep rally will begin at 7:15pm. The following food trucks will be there: The Varsity, Mac the Cheese, and Kona Ice.  Follow the link below to pre-order food:

https://goo.gl/forms/gKNtTCBQBpOKEMSx1

You won't want to miss this fun community event! 

New Scholastic Book Order

New Flyers went home Friday in Rocket folder. Directions are below if you'd like to submit an online order. Thanks for supporting the class!

Class Code - L4PFZ

Order Due Date - 10/27/17

Subject: Scholastic Book Clubs Class Order Due Date is approaching!

Dear Families,

This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 10/27/17. You can place your orders online at scholastic.com/bookclubs using my class activation code: L4PFZ

Happy Reading,
Mrs. Rivera

September 25-29, 2017

Language Arts: Saturdays and Teacakes  by Lester Laminack. This mentor text will provide the students the opportunity to notice proper nouns, infer evidence, and discuss the elements of a memoir.

Mentor Sentence: Every Saturday she had hot biscuits, sweet butter, and Golden Eagle Syrup waiting on the kitchen table.

Vocabulary: Week 5 vocabulary Quiz Wednesday, October 4th - focus on suffix -able

Tier 2 Words

claim - to say that something is true when someone may say it is not true (states the purpose of the argument);  to say that something belongs to you

position - a point of view that is taken on a question; the place where someone or something is

defend - to speak or write in support of someone or something that is being challenged; to fight in order to keep someone or something safe

redundant, gesture, acknowledge, clutch, persevere, agreeable, reasonable, capable

Social Studies:

• Locate major topographical features on a US map: Rivers - Mississippi, Ohio, Rio Grande, Colorado, Hudson, & St. Lawrence; Mountain Ranges - Appalachian & Rocky
• Locate and describe equator, prime meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude on a globe.
• Map and globe skills: use a letter/number grid system to determine location, compare and contrast the categories of natural, cultural, and political features found on maps
• Information Processing Skills: Identify social studies reference resources to use for a specific purpose.

Cows Really Moo Over Hay Sometimes (rivers west - east in order)

Math: Weekly focus: NBT.2 - Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place  value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction

Homework:

* Read 20 minutes nightly

* Study vocabulary  - quiz October 4th on week 5 words
* IXL, Mobymax, xtramath

* Some students - orange fluency folder (read nightly and answer questions)

Important Dates:

Vocabulary Week 5 - Wednesday, October 4

Conference Day - Friday, October 6

Fall Break - Monday, October 9

Stone Mountain Field Trip - November 2nd

DA$H -

Technology:

Students have log-ins for the following programs and can practice at home: IXL, xtramath, MobyMax. If you need this information, and have lost the letters that went home, please email and I will be happy to share with you.

Conference Sign-up

Complete the form following the link to sign-up for a fall conference. This is the same link that was emailed out. If you have already signed up, there is no need to sign-up again. I will be sending assigned time home next week. Thank you for your continued support.

https://goo.gl/forms/uTzvurS0Gq2RhEkr1

September 18-22, 2017

Language Arts: Describe characters in a story (their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events).

Mentor Sentence: He was always at the end of the line, always at the foot of the class, a forlorn tag-along. Crow Boy

Vocabulary: Week 4 vocabulary Quiz Friday, September 22 - focus on suffix -less

Convince, swiftly, rely, rare, precise, suggest, support, careless, fearless, scoreless, harmless

Social Studies:

• Locate major topographical features on a US map: Rivers - Mississippi, Ohio, Rio Grande, Colorado, Hudson, & St. Lawrence; Mountain Ranges - Appalachian & Rocky
• Locate and describe equator, prime meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude on a globe.
• Map and globe skills: use a letter/number grid system to determine location, compare and contrast the categories of natural, cultural, and political features found on maps
• Information Processing Skills: Identify social studies reference resources to use for a specific purpose.

Math: Weekly focus: NBT.2 - Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on price value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. Addition with regrouping quiz: Friday, September 22nd

Homework:

* Read 20 minutes nightly

* Study vocabulary  - quiz September 22nd on week 4 words
* IXL, Mobymax, xtramath

Important Dates:

Book fair continues through 9/19

Grandparent lunches continue through 9/18

9/19 - Picture make-up day (send letter with child if you want your child’s picture retaken)

September 22 - addition with regrouping quiz & character traits quiz

September 26 - rivers & mountains identification quiz

DA$H t-shirt

DA$H T-shirt sizes needed

The DA$H for Excellence is on Friday, October 20. Each child at Rocky Branch will receive a free DA$H T-shirt on the day of the event. PLEASE complete the form below to request the size t-shirt that would best fit your child! If you have more than one child at Rocky Branch, complete a separate form for each child!

Student DA$H T-Shirt Size Request

September 18-22, 2017

Vocabulary Quizlet Week 4