Dear Families,

Hello and Happy October!!

I just wanted to check in about a few things:

1.  Thank you for coming to the 4th grade curriculum night on Tuesday!  I hope you found the information useful.  Please, as always, let me know if you have any questions. I will share the conference sign up with all of you.  If you need to change your time, or sign up, you can right on the shared document. 

2.  Students have a walking field trip coming up on Wednesday, 10/8.  We'll take a walk with an ecologist,   as a way to focus the work we do in our science notebooks, and to study change over time.  Please make sure your child comes to school Wednesday with a bagged lunch and appropriate clothing. 

3.  The SCS Hike for Hunger  team ended up raising almost $1000 to Hunger Free VT!  We also donated over 150 cans of food to the Shelburne Food Shelf!  Thank you all for your support!!   

I'm sure you all heard that we had our first butterfly release today!   Our first monarch emerged yesterday and today a 2nd one emerged!  The students were SO EXCITED!  We took the "oldest" monarch out to our SCS gardens said good bye and good luck, and set him free!  What an exciting moment!    
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Next week we'll be moving into a few new things:

We'll start a non-fiction reading work using Geology topic books.  We'll also start a couple of reader's theater skits!

Students will start thinking further about and drafting ideas for their next published writing piece, a narrative fiction piece!

We will continue with our focus on typing for the next two weeks.  We also plan to begin our focus on fact practice next week.  Look for fact practice to become a regular part of the goal sheet starting 10/13.  

Ok, that's enough for now.  Thank you for all of your support!

Cara