October 19th-23rd

General Announcements:	Report Cards came home last Wednesday! If you have not done so already, please sign and return one of the report card copies. Remember to frequently check your child’s grades in iNow. BGIS ZAXBY'S NIGHT is TOMORROW, Tuesday, October 20th, from 4 to 9 P.M. at 2735 John Hawkins Parkway (across from Wal-Mart). 10% of sales will be donated to BGIS! We appreciate your support of the BOX TOPS for Education program. This is a wonderful way to help raise money for our classrooms! Please be on the lookout for BOX TOPS and send them with your child! Next Friday is the deadline for our first Box Tops turn in date. We have enjoyed meeting and conferencing with many of you! If you would still like to schedule a conference, please send us an email and we will try to schedule something soon. Earthsavers Science Club (ESC) continues to collect gently used shoes during the month of October. Please help by sending in your donations! NEXT WEEK-October 26th-30th- We will celebrate BGIS Spirit Week and Red Ribbon Week (Monday will be "Red Day", wear red and be sure to bring a canned good to donate). BGIS Book Fair will be next week (October 26th-30th).  We will let you know our class days as soon as our schedul
Language Arts:	This week we will be reading "Trapped By The Ice!" We will be discussing the main idea of the text. We will test the vocabulary next Tuesday (October 27th).  Please continue to work on the Tombstone Project assigned in class last Friday. Project directions are post under the Language Arts tab. The tombstone is due October 26th and presentations will be October 28th and 29th.
Social Studies:	We are finishing up our study of the 13 colonies and will even be creating our own colony! The test over the 13 colonies will be October 29th and a study guide will come home soon.
Math:	Last week's IXL Math activities are due tomorrow (Level G-A2, D5, E1, K1, K2).  Class time has been given to work on these activities.  We will continue our study of Volume for the next couple of weeks! Math Cumulative Review came home today and is due Thursday. We will have a short quiz on Volume this Friday.
Science:	Today, we enjoyed another "Too Good for Drugs" lesson taught by our SRO- Officer Johnson.    We are completing class activities for our study of Earth's distribution of Water.  Grades are being taken in class this week for their Distribution of Water graph in their Science notebooks, their Distribution of Graph pie charts we made using our Chromebooks and Google Sheets, and Brainpop Quizzes.  See our Science section of the blog for more details. We are also discussing articles in our Science World Magazines.