Ms.

Platts Class

Week 8; Oct. 10-14, 2016

Classroom News

Upcoming Events
October 28
Fall Festival

November 2
Log Cabin Field Trip

November 17
School Thanksgiving Feast

Important
Announcement
Adventures in Learning
Last week students explored electricity in a closed circuit and
recorded observations in their science journals.

This Week

Log Cabin Field Trip!

Reading/Writing - Continuing to identify and evaluate

elements in fiction
Helping Hand: While watching TV or a movie ask child to identify
the main characters, summarize the plot and the conflict and
outcome of the TV show or movie. See the example on the back.

Science Examining different types of energy

***There will be a unit test over matter and the different types of
energy on Friday!

Social Studies North American and Texas Indians

Nov. 2
Cost $5 per student
Permission slips due
Oct. 25
Parent volunteers
needed!

Student of the Week:

Mary Beth Porter

Outstanding
cooperation in group
activities
Determination to
complete assignments
Respect to her
classmates

Indians we are studying: Lipan Apache, Karankawa, Caddo, and

Jumano

At Home Learning

Math Geometric lines, angles, and shapes

Read a newspaper article

with your child and ask them
the essential 5: who, what,
when, where, and why. See
the example on the back.

Helping Hand: See what your child can find! Look for different
angles and shapes while driving in the car, around the house, or
on TV. See the example on the back.
Discover more class adventures in learning, parent resources,
and student technology projects on the class website.

Ms.plattsclass.com

Ms. Platts Class

Week 8; Oct. 10-14, 2016

Parent Corner-Examples
Reading/Writing
Key Terms:
1. Main characters:
o Protagonist- central or leading character or group of characters, sometimes the
hero.
o Antagonist- the character or group of characters that oppose the main character,
sometimes the villain.
2. Plot events that make up the story.
3. Conflict- the struggle between the protagonist and antagonist.
Example: Cinderella
1. Main Characters:
o Protagonist- Cinderella
o Antagonist- Cinderellas stepmom and step sisters
2. Plot The prince holds a ball and invites all the ladies in kingdom so he can find a wife.
Cinderellas step mother and step sisters do not want her to go. Her fairy godmother
appears and gives her a new dress and a glass slippers. Cinderella and the prince fall in
love, but as she leaves she loses one of her glass slippers. The prince decides to use the
glass slipper to find Cinderella but her step mother locks her in the attic. The animals help
her escape the attic and she runs down the stairs just in time to try on the slipper and it fits.
3. Conflict The step mother and step sisters do not want Cinderella to go to the ball or to be
found by the prince.

Math
Look at shapes of the buildings, for example are they rectangle or square. Also look at furniture to
find right angles, hair tools such as the flat iron open as an acute angle, and scissors can open to
be an obtuse angle.

At Home Learning
Ex. A news article covering the presidential debate
o Who are the presidential candidates? Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump
o What the political issues being discussed? Should Syrian refugees come to the United
States?
o When should these things happen? When they become president.
o Where is the location they discussed the issues? At a debate in Florida.
o Ask your child how they feel about the issue discussed. Do they agree or disagree, why?
Discover more class adventures in learning, parent resources,
and student technology projects on the class website.

Ms.plattsclass.com