Happy October!

hi parents and fourth graders and ah, happy Almost October.

Yes, This Thursday begins the month of October.

Can you believe it?

Here we go into October.

And the first thing about October that I wanna let

you know is that it is rosary month.

We pray a decade of the rosary at morning assembly

each morning on instructions for that will be provided in

Google classroom.

If you have a rosary, you are welcome to get

it and use it during that time.

And if you don't, that's totally fine.

You can count the 10 Hail Marys on your fingers.

It's fine, but we will have slides in the morning

assembly, uh, slideshow that morning.

That will help those of you who maybe aren't familiar

with praying the rosary help guide you through those prayers

as we do that each day during October.

Next announcement is about reminder that we have new breakout

room groups this week that I have assigned and again

we'll keep these for the month of October as our

Monday Friday groups Tuesdays and Thursdays will still be randomly

selected groups and Wednesdays.

We don't do breakout rooms because we go to mass.

We are actually having quiz time this Friday.

I will do it in the second half of the

hour, especially to accommodate those who are coming, perhaps from

the math flex time just before it, um, who are

running a little late between assembly and are mean, Sorry,

morning meeting and Chris time.

So I just want to make sure everybody has plenty

of time.

The quizzes for this Friday will be the Simple Solutions

Quiz and before we'll also be having our first grammar

quiz on Unit One sentences, Uh, but they'll help.

The students will have plenty of time to prepare, and

we'll make on Thursday a study guide that they can

use during the quiz on Friday.

The focus in reading groups this week will be skills

and strategies.

Eso will take a little break from doing our Scholastic

News and work on things like summarizing and compare and

contrast, and start that Siris of lessons on reading skills

as in terms of regular reading on nightly reading, we'll

be focusing on the novel The Tiger Rising that I

started doing as a read aloud Um, there will be

a PdF, a book of the book available plus recordings

of me narrating each chapter, um, different chapter assignments each

night and a short exit ticket at the end of

that instead of a reading vlog, Friday's field trip will

be about space exploration.

This is a topic here and dear to my heart,

because my dad was an aerospace engineer with Rockwell for

over 35 years and eso I have a real passion

for the space industry and the love and affection for

it. So we are going to, and it's such a

huge thing in Southern California.

It's such a big employer and affect our economy in

big way.

So we're gonna just learn a little bit about space

exploration now.

And there are a lot of really great virtual field

trips and videos that NASA and other organizations have available

online, So we'll be using some of those in our

field trip on Friday.

Lastly, I promised parents that we would do ah, parent

check in Zoom this week.

So I thought, Why not the first of the month?

Eso If you're available around 5 30 I will email

out the zoom information on Wednesday and please feel free

to join.

We'll just do a little chatting.

It won't be long.

Maybe half a Now, er a tw the most talk

a little bit about how schools been going so far.

If you have any concerns or questions or things you

thought really worked well that you'd like to see happen

some more.

I am open to suggestions and be happy to answer

any of your questions.

So I hope you'll join us.

And on that note, I also hope you have a

wonderful week.

We'll look forward to seeing the kids in the morning.

Take care Bye.

Happy October!

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