September



**This month’s focus is on science.** We currently have a science kit that we use during science lab time. It is about science experiments and variables! We are creating our science books again. This project involves research and illustrating science concepts that we need to understand better. Our science puzzles are not up and running yet, but we do not have our workbooks yet. (They are to arrive in October.) We have enough to swim through for science anyway! Ha ha   Students are working a treasure hunt chapter book project and a shorty social studies book contract to complete. We read for the first two weeks of the month and complete the project the last two weeks. Both projects are due the last week of September. Lessons 1 and 3 in spelling are being covered by the 5th/6th grades. Lessons 2 and 4 in spelling are being covered by the 4th grade. We will journal about a weekly topic, our math ideas, social studies and science discussions. These journal entries will be kept in our one journal. Family members are encouraged to read our journals, in addition to the blurbs found in our planners. // Math Puzzlewise // lesson is our major assignment in math each week, along with a math word wall project. We are beginning to prepare for math presentations this month. We will have an assessment every 5th puzzle in our //Math Puzzlewise//. Weekend Homework story problems should be completed each weekend, following the procedures we outlined at the beginning of the year: ** Weekend Math Story Problems ** **Procedure** 1.  Students are to show how they solved their problems in the space given. We call this “evidence.” 2.  When giving their answers or solutions to each problem, the student should always label their answers. 3.  I am asking students to do one of two things for each problem after they have solved it: A.  Find another way to show how to solve the problem. B.  Write a similar problem and show how to solve it.