Weekly Reminders:*Second Trimester begins. (New classroom expectations will be sent home this week. Please review with your child.)
*Spelling pretest on Monday.
*PBIS Assembly on Monday at 1:45.
*Social Studies quiz on Friday.
*Spelling test on Friday.
Plan Ahead:
*Picture retakes on Tuesday, November 23. Need payment envelope or complete picture packet to get retakes.
*Report card issued on Tuesday, November 23.
*Thanksgiving Break, Wednesday, November 24 - Friday, November 26. Gobble Gobble!
*Parent Teacher Conferences, Monday, November 29 - December 1.
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - In Chapter 3, lesson 2, we will explore how the behaviors of animals help them meet their needs. We will be taking a quiz over lessons 2 and 3 after the Thanksgiving break.
Social Studies - We will now explore the people of the Northeast. Our focus will be on the Narragansett Tribe. There will be an open-book quiz on Chapter 5, lesson 1 on Friday.
Spelling - The children will take the spelling pretest on Monday. Throughout the week, in class, we will practice the words in cursive. At home, your child should practice the spelling of the words and complete their activities. Our test on Friday will need to be done in cursive.
English- We will continue our unit on Capitalization and Punctuation. Our lessons will include: More Uses for Commas, Quotations, and Titles. Since using quotation marks can be so difficult for children, we will spend at least 3 days working on this concepts. Our test on Unit 5 will be after the Thanksgiving Break.
Reading - We will work on making inferences and evaluating during reading this week. Good readers should always think about their reactions to what they are reading and why they are reacting that way. This strategy is called “evaluating”. As you are reading the story think about these things: How does the author make the story come alive and make you want to keep reading? What was entertaining, informative, or useful about what you read? How did you react to the story? Did you agree or disagree with what you read? How well did you understand what you were reading? Did you enjoy reading it?
Accelerated Math Menu:
We will begin chapter 3 this week. I have decided to only do lessons 1-9 & 14 in this chapter, at this time. We will come back to chapter 3 later in the year to work on dividing by 2-digit divisors.
Monday - Understanding Division. HW: Workbook pg. 26.
Tuesday - Order of Operations. HW: Workbook pg. 38.
Wednesday - Division Patterns. HW: Workbook pg. 27.
Thursday - Three-Digit Quotients. HW: Workbook pg. 28.
Friday - Larger Quotients. HW: Workbook pg. 29 (if not finished during class).
