October 22, 2017


BizTown Field Trip: If you haven’t had a chance to check out photos from our fun-filled day at BizTown head over to our class Facebook Page!
Volunteers: If you are interested in volunteering at Highcroft please take a moment to apply for a background check. The steps to apply are listed below.
  2. click on Employment
  3. click on Volunteer Packets
  4. Click on Volunteer Application
  5. complete the information and submit
Veteran’s Day: In recognition of Veterans Day, we will host our second annual Veterans Day Celebration on November 10, 2017.  We invite (invitation attached here) our students' family members who are veterans and active service members to join us as we honor and celebrate their service.  As a part of our celebration, we are creating a Heroes Wall of Honor.  If your child would like to participate, have him or her complete the 'My Hero' form that can be printed from here.  Please return the form to your child's teacher or the front office by November 3, 2017.  We also invite our students to create a project that will be displayed and presented during the assembly.  Guidelines for the projects can be found here.  Thank you for your participation in helping us honor the men and women who serve our country.
Ecobuds: Highcroft Ridge has a new environmental club. Would your child like to be a problem solver and participate on a team to help our school reduce, reuse, and recycle? If so, please CLICK HERE FOR ECOBUDS APPLICATION. Sign up by Friday, October 27th.

Trunk or Treat: Join us for the 2nd annual Trunk or Treat Friday, October 27th.Trunk or Treat Registration Form and Pizza Order Form
Reading: This week in reading, we will wrap up bend 1 and begin bend 11 of our nonfiction reading unit. Your reader will learn that they can use morphology to tackle tricky words. Readers will study and consider texts at many different levels. As well as learn that they can think about how texts are built at the smallest level--the sentence level--to how part of a text is built to how the entire text is built. Readers will learn to monitor their own comprehension, and when they notice their comprehension breaking down, they rely on a toolkit of strategies to help get themselves unstuck. Lastly, we will focus on summarizing complex texts.
Writing:  This week in writing, we will revise by using timelines. Students will learn that they will need to continue to keep in mind the qualities of good writing while keeping in mind the qualities of good history. Writers will also learn that it is important to take stock and self-assess. Students will make a plan to fill in any gaps they may have in their research.
Math: This week in math, we will continue multiplying decimals. You may see your 5th grader using one or more of the following strategies to find products; estimation, grids, partial products, multiplication properties, number sense, and reasoning.
Grid Strategy
Number Sense and Reasoning Strategy
Important Math Words: Exponent, factor, product estimate, decimal, compatible numbers, partial products
Social Studies:Tomorrow we will review all that we have learned about Financial Literacy, Community and Economy, Work Readiness, and Business Management. On Tuesday, we will show what we know during an assessment. Citizens will need to be familiar with the words scarcity, opportunity cost, and supply and demand. Citizens will also need to be able to describe some decisions they made during their visit to BizTown.
Science: On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we will wrap up our Environments unit. Scientists will show what they know on Friday, October 27th.
Important Vocab: Living, non living, food chains, producer, consumer, predator and prey, and decomposers


October 25: Pumpkin Run During Specials, Grades 3-5
October 27: Trunk or Treat
October 31: Halloween Parade, 2:15 pm
November 1: Late Start, School begins at 11:05 am
November 4: All Play 6K at Creve Coeur Park
November 6: No School - Records Day
November 9: Picture Retake Day and All Read, 3:25
November 10: Veterans Day Celebration
November 15: Parkway Board of Education Meeting, 7:00 pm, Central Middle
November 16: PSO Meeting, 7:00 pm
November 22-26: No School, Thanksgiving
November 27: Hearing Screenings

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