This is our last full-week until our short week before Thanksgiving. Today we took our second spelling test. A new list of words will come home tomorrow. That test will be on Tuesday, November 21 before our Thanksgiving holiday.
Here are this week's happenings and announcements and whatever else I need to say:
- Next week we only have two days of school. I will still be teaching curriculum those two days, we'll have a spelling test, have reading groups etc., but on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 21 we'll do some Thanksgiving activities. One of the things we will do is make "turkey cookies" out of Oreos, and create a bead bracelet as we learn about the "first Thanksgiving". I would love some help with donations for these activities. I will contact you through e-mail if you signed up to help with Thanksgiving, but could use some more help with donations. If you can help please send me an e-mail. I will send you back an assignment. It will be something like; a box of whoppers, or a container of chocolate frosting. THANK YOU!
- Please don't pull back on nightly reading with the holidays coming up. I KNOW how stressful the holiday season can be and I don't expect perfection, but please do your best and keep this healthy habit of nightly reading for 10 minutes with your child. I am so impressed at the progress I am seeing with my kids in reading--it shows as my students are "moving up levels" with their take-home books! Keep it up!! It helps!
- Our math test for Chapter 3 will be tomorrow (Tuesday, November 14). We will then move into our Subtraction strategies unit on Wednesday.
- We have finished our portion on Mesopotamia and just started learning about the Ancient Egyptians. Today we learned the importance of the Nile river to the Egyptians and how it helped them in farming especially when the spring brought flooding into the area (sometimes flooding can be helpful).
- In reading we are still learning about vowel teams or combinations. We have learned the two sounds that the 'oo' spelling makes and we've learned about the sound that the 'ou' spelling makes. We will also learn about 'oi' and 'aw' in this unit. As well as learning about verbs and reading from our Fables book (these books or readers emphasize through words and stories the things we have been learning about). Today we read the fable "The Dog and the Mule". The kids generated the lesson or moral of the story--"to be yourself". Ask your child about that fable and what they learned :)
Don't forget to help your child to remember to return their library books by Wednesday and to practice their sight words. Please return the blue notes so that Mrs. Harris can pass your child off.
Happy Reading!!
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| We loved watching A'merrie on our Field Trip to the Paiute Tribal Center. |
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| Blue Eagle awards and sports watches. |
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| White eagle awards |
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| Orange eagle award |
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| Red Eagle awards |
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