Important Dates
DMS fundraiser – Next week sometime (TBD)
December 4 – Reading Games registration starts
December 25 - January 2 – Winter Break
Reading Games
Registration for the Reading Games starts next Monday. Unfamiliar with reading games- see this informational doc.
DMS FUNDRAISER & SERVICE PROJECT
Coming soon- the DMS Promo Card Fundraiser will be done in conjunction with our annual service project of raising funds and donations for the local Food Pantry. More information will be sent out by Mr. Albers about the promo cards, but students may also bring in donations of non-perishable items and toiletries as well as cash donations between now and December 20th.
CLASSROOM NEWS
Math with Mrs. Halweg
Hybrid Math- This week in math we wrapped up on our unit of study on multiplying with fractions and mixed numbers. Your student will be assessed over their knowledge of these skills next Tuesday, December 5.
Math 5- In math this week we continued our unit of study on long division. We’re practicing dividing with multi-digit divisors and reporting our answers with remainders. We’ll continue to practice these skills next week as well.
Language with Mr. Amundson
In Language class the past few weeks the students have been busy writing comics. The students spent time planning a story line for their comic, including characters, settings, dialogue and then they started creating their comic centered around their comic story line. Our plan is to finish up with our comic writing this week and start sharing our comics with our peers the first part of next week.
Reading with Mrs. Nowack
We have been studying genres of literature; this week we explored poetry and learned to identify themes in fiction. Reminder: Students are expected to read from their IR book daily (it should travel from home to school each day).
Science with Mr. Peterson
We’ve been using our “matter model” (the one that says all matter is made of particles too small to see) to explain the evaporation of liquids. We’ve been asking questions, developing investigations to answer those questions, collecting a lot of data, learning to read graphs, and using those data to answer questions.
What’s happening outside right now? I’ll post some videos that Larry Reis from Winneshiek County Conservation made over the last several years. Each video highlights some organisms that you might be able to see outside at this particular time of the year. This episode features a great blue heron eating a northern pike, deer mice and thimbleweed seed heads.
Social Studies with Mr. Fromm
What we did: Early Settlements & Interactions with Native People
Where we are going: Make - Up of the Colonies & Time/Timelines!
Questions/Prompts for your student: What was life like in the early settlements? Would you have survived?
Additional Information
Below is a Spanish copy of this newsletter as rendered by Google Translate.
DMS fundraiser – Next week sometime (TBD)
December 4 – Reading Games registration starts
December 25 - January 2 – Winter Break
Reading Games
Registration for the Reading Games starts next Monday. Unfamiliar with reading games- see this informational doc.
DMS FUNDRAISER & SERVICE PROJECT
Coming soon- the DMS Promo Card Fundraiser will be done in conjunction with our annual service project of raising funds and donations for the local Food Pantry. More information will be sent out by Mr. Albers about the promo cards, but students may also bring in donations of non-perishable items and toiletries as well as cash donations between now and December 20th.
CLASSROOM NEWS
Math with Mrs. Halweg
Hybrid Math- This week in math we wrapped up on our unit of study on multiplying with fractions and mixed numbers. Your student will be assessed over their knowledge of these skills next Tuesday, December 5.
Math 5- In math this week we continued our unit of study on long division. We’re practicing dividing with multi-digit divisors and reporting our answers with remainders. We’ll continue to practice these skills next week as well.
Language with Mr. Amundson
In Language class the past few weeks the students have been busy writing comics. The students spent time planning a story line for their comic, including characters, settings, dialogue and then they started creating their comic centered around their comic story line. Our plan is to finish up with our comic writing this week and start sharing our comics with our peers the first part of next week.
Reading with Mrs. Nowack
We have been studying genres of literature; this week we explored poetry and learned to identify themes in fiction. Reminder: Students are expected to read from their IR book daily (it should travel from home to school each day).
Science with Mr. Peterson
We’ve been using our “matter model” (the one that says all matter is made of particles too small to see) to explain the evaporation of liquids. We’ve been asking questions, developing investigations to answer those questions, collecting a lot of data, learning to read graphs, and using those data to answer questions.
What’s happening outside right now? I’ll post some videos that Larry Reis from Winneshiek County Conservation made over the last several years. Each video highlights some organisms that you might be able to see outside at this particular time of the year. This episode features a great blue heron eating a northern pike, deer mice and thimbleweed seed heads.
Social Studies with Mr. Fromm
What we did: Early Settlements & Interactions with Native People
Where we are going: Make - Up of the Colonies & Time/Timelines!
Questions/Prompts for your student: What was life like in the early settlements? Would you have survived?
Additional Information
Below is a Spanish copy of this newsletter as rendered by Google Translate.