Weekly Reminders:*Parent Teacher conferences Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
*Lesson 13 spelling pretest on Monday.
*Report Cards given out on Tuesday.
*Drury Lane field trip on Wednesday. Please dress nicely.
*Wheel of Wisdom assembly on Wednesday.
*John Lynn - Appalachian Trail Assembly on Thursday.
*Lesson 13 spelling test on Thursday.
*Thursday we will be following a Friday schedule. Be prepared for music class.
*Lesson 3 science quiz on Thursday.
*No school on Friday.
*Our chapter 8 science test will be on Wednesday, December 10.
*Last day to turn in gifts for cancer patient family and/or Family Shelter Services will be on Wednesday, December 10.
Please turn in permission slip for Tivoli field trip as soon as possible.
Classroom Happenings:
Science-Our focus this week will be on fossils. This will be the last lesson in our study of Earth Science. Our test on chapter 8 will be on Wednesday, December 10.
Social Studies-We will finish our Northeast region scrapbook on Monday. Students will be turning these in on Tuesday for their first region grade. On Tuesday, we will begin our study of the Southeast. Our focus will be on the land of the southeast.
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Math-We will continue working on long division this week. On Monday, we will work with problems that have zero in the quotient. On Tuesday, we will divide larger numbers. We will not have math on Wednesday due to the field trip. Thursday, the children will work on finding averages. Next week, we will finish this chapter by learning short division. Our test on Chapter 5 will be on Wednesday, December 10 or Thursday, December 11.
Spelling-We will be working on words with "aw" this week. Please help your child practice their words in cursive.
English-I will be meeting with each child on Monday to review their enrichment choices for our new unit on verbs. We will also do one lesson this week on action verbs.
Reading-We will continue A Christmas Carol this week. The children will be summarizing the story by focusing on the sequence of events. We will also work on vocabulary. The words are very challenging in this novel. Please have your children review the words each night. We will have a vocabulary quiz during the week of December 8. The children will be receiving a reader's theater script, of A Christmas Carol, early in the week. We will read this together on Tuesday, December 9.
