Wednesday, November 11th - Veteran's Day - Day off!
Friday, November 20th End of Trimester 1
The Halloween Celebration was a success! Thank you so much for sending in supplies to decorate the pumpkins with. I couldn't believe the creative pumpkins that we had. The children all did an excellent job.
In addition, thank you to those parents who sent in the drinks and snacks. The kids really enjoyed them.
Roller skating permission slips were handed out last week. There is a limit of only 175 participants allowed. It is on a first come, first serve basis. If your child is planning on attending, please return the slip right away.
There is a PE test scheduled for Tuesday. The study guide went home. Have you seen it yet? If not, please ask your child about it.
Spelling The Rule/ Pattern this week is to make the plural form of a noun that ends with vowel + y add the letter s. To make the plural form of a noun that ends with consonant + y change the y to an i and add es.
Math - In math this week the children should be ready to be tested on their squares, 2's, and 5's on Monday. Rather than give this test to them orally, I will give them a test where they will have to write their answers down.
In class this week they will learn their 3's,4's,6's,7's,8's times tables. Remember that these facts will be tested through the 12's so they will need to add 10, 11 and 12 on to their fact sheets. Each night they should be reviewing and studying. We will be working on lessons 4.7, 4.4, 4.8 and 4.5 in that order. They will work on problem solving skills: understanding when to multiply or add in a word problem, and the break apart method to help them solve problems. For example: 9 x 4 you can break apart if you can't remember into 5 x 4 = 20 4 x 4 = 16 than add them together or since 4 is a double, you can do 9 x 2 = 18 and 9 x 2 = 18 than add it that way.
English The children will work with the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence. They will also identify run-on sentences and know how to correct them.
There will be an open book quiz on Friday of this week to check for understanding of the following skills: Identify and punctuate commands, exclamations, statements and questions, recognize if a sentence is or is not a sentence (It needs to have both a subject and a predicate for it to be a sentence) identify the complete subject and predicate and simple subject and predicate of a sentence and identify and fix run on sentences.
There will be a test on chapter 1 on Tuesday of next week, November 10.
Reading This week we will go over the reading response which will culminate our literature books. The new skill this week will be problem/solution. They will be reading passages and finding the problems and solutions from the passages. They may be bringing home work that they have done in class for parents to look over and help them proofread before they turn them in.
Social Studies - This week the children will learn about the people of the Northeast. They will learn about the Native American tribe that settled in the area before the English settlers moved in. They will describe key events that affected the Narragansett way of life once European settlers arrived.
Science - This week the children will finish their invertebrate posters. They will learn more about insects. There will be a test on Friday over Chapter 1 in science.
The children should know:
All vocabulary
Study all the sheets in their folders
building blocks of life
nucleus
understand vascular/nonvascular plants
different ways plants reproduce
understand bacteria traits/ how are they helpful
know the 5 classes of vertebrates and be able to give examples and at least 2 characteristics of each
understand arthropods and what they include
