Blessing of the Pets

Friday is a special day at Trinity. It is time for the annual Blessing of the Pets. This custom is conducted in remembrance of St. Francis of Assisi’s love for all creatures. Bring your furry or scaled pets for this memorable occasion.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Tuesday morning we walked up to ImaginOn for our first Children's Theatre show of the year. Ask your student to tell you about the performance. The blurb below is from the theatre's website.

"The Peanuts gang’s all here – Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroeder and Sally – in this delightful musical that will have you celebrating childhood, or revisiting it! Charlie Brown just wants to win the heart of the Little Red-Haired Girl, while Snoopy and Linus want to daydream. Meanwhile, the rest of the group battles book reports, kites, baseball and misunderstandings in this classic Broadway musical based on the iconic comic characters of Charles Schulz."

Word Sort Spelling Words

We are learning about VCV and VCCV words. Ask your student to explain what this means! Our driving goal with the word sorts is that the students understand the spelling rules and how to apply them.

Words for the week:

dinner

diner

super

supper

lesson

tiger

open

crazy

summer

"Mr. Bones"

During the month of October, we are working to learn the scientific names of the bones in our bodies.

DynaMath

Your student has received a Scholastic math magazine called DynaMath. It is a fun collection of problems for them to work through as the month progresses. Read the information below from the Scholastic website to learn more about this math magazine.

An innovative way to build core math skills and connect math to the real world

Here’s how DynaMath makes math relevant and engaging:

• 8 issues reinforce core math concepts by showing students how they apply to current events, science, and everyday experiences.
• Standards-based practice problems in each issue build the critical math skills students need to succeed on standardized tests and in higher grades. 
• Common Core Connections: In each issue we cover the grades 3–6 math standards, including basic operations, fractions, decimals, measurement, geometry, and graph/chart reading.
• STEM Connections–DynaMath relates math to technology, invention, and careers through features like our popular math-in-careers series.

Personal Narratives

We are working on our first personal narrative stories and hope to have them published before parent conferences. Students thought of a personal story that had a clear beginning, middle, and end. We then worked to break it down into a timeline with five distinct points. After writing a first draft, students looked to see how much they had written about each portion of their story. We then worked to stretch those parts of the tale by adding dialogue, more detail, and character development. It's been so exciting to see the students progress through the stages of the writing process with this first story. We can't imagine where they will go with their writing with this as our starting place!

Author Visit

Shelby Bach came to speak to the Trinity 3rd and 4th graders today. She is a Charlotte native who always knew she wanted to be a writer. She likes to write books that take traditional fairy tales and twist them, often incorporating characters form several tales into one.

Check out her website if you're interested: http://shelbybach.com/