Cleaning and organizing desks, binders and drawers!!!
No School-Tuesday, Nov.11th-Veteran's Day
Website of the week:
FunBrain is the #1 sites for online educational games for kids of all ages. (math , grammar, science, spell, history)
www.funbrain.com
Goody Basket-
Thanks to:
For donating to the basket this week!
Student of the Week
Allie
Me
My Family
Special Friends
My Favorite Foods
Where I Live
Thing I Like to Do
When I Grow Up I’d like to
My Favorite Toys
How the special week works for your child:
Monday-put pictures up
Tuesday-share your board
Wed.-Read a favorite book (practice at home first)
Thursday-Show and Tell
Friday-Take board down
Spelling
Lesson 11 is next.
All spelling should be done in cursive. This is where the students will have time to actually practice the skills they learn in “handwriting.”
English
Chapter 3-VERBS
We have studied:
*what verbs are
*verbs in the present
Writing
We worked on descriptive writing again this week.
We took a “fall walk” and wrote about what we saw, smelled, touched, “tasted,” and heard.
Next, we will use descriptive writing in our turkey stories.
Reading
Strategies covered:
-visualizing
-preview and predict
-clarify
*fact /opinion
*compare/contrast
*cause /effect
We will be learning about self-questioning, next.
Independent Reading Program
Folders are due Mon. 12/1.
Reading party in class- Tues., 12/2.
Read-Read-Read
Congrats to the following people who joined us for our reading party for the month of October:
-Adam -Lucas
-Kailee -Eve
-Natalie -Emily
-Jennifer -Eric
-Max -Ethan
-Allison -Marc
-Alec -Chantalle
-Elena -Stephen
-Ross
Science
We will start our first lesson in our other science book. This is about science inquiry tools and skills.
Social Studies-Local Government
We have started Chapter 12 on Local Government.
We have studied about:
-Lesson 1-Community Services
-Lesson 2-Community Leaders
-Lesson 3-People change communities
The test will be on:
Wednesday, November 12th
Math
Chapter 3 -
Chapter 4- “Subtraction.”
We have studied:
-fact families
-estimating differences
-2 digit subtraction
-3 digit subtraction
-subtract bigger numbers
-problem solve:estimate or exact answers
-subtract across zeros
-problem solve-choose an operation
The test on Chapter 3 will be on Thursday, November 13th!
Have a GREAT weekend!
Mrs. T. Spakausky
