Important Dates . . .
Tuesday, November 2nd -- No school - Teacher Institute
Thursday, November 11th -- No School - Veterans Day
Friday, November 12 -- End of Trimester
Tuesday, November 16 -- Report Cards
November 24, 25, 26 -- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Schoool
Language Arts
We are wrapping up our study of punctuation this week.
Reading
This week we will complete our current level of vocabulary skills with Lesson 24! Your child will be coming home with 7 words that will be studied during the week in class and should be reviewed at home. On the page I will be sending home each Monday there will be suggestions on how you can work with your child & have them get extra practice.
We will continue working on phonics, decoding, encoding, and comprehension throughout the week through direct instruction, Lexia, and hands on materials.
Please keep reading 20 minutes a night for the Independent Reading Program! You may just note the time read in increments of 20 minutes in the pages read section. Please sign on the date the reading was accomplished. This red folder should be turned in every Friday to make sure they are staying on track. The Independent Reading Folder should be turned in for a grade at the end of the month. Keep reading!
Spelling
This week we will begin working through a list of the top 100 words. These l00 words as listed in the "A.B.C. Language Arts Bulletin" Educational Research Service, American Book Co., account for 65% of all running words in the writing of adults. We will continue to work through the list of these words for the next few weeks. Reading and spelling skills will be built at the same time through this list.
Practice pages will be assigned for the upcoming week's list on Friday to give additional study time. Over the weekend would be a good time to discuss the meaning of the words. Although we work on meaning typically on Fridays and Mondays, help from home is greatly encouraged! They will be receiving them daily as an assignment. A test over the lesson will be given this Friday.
Please try to help your child study if you see they are not performing as well as you'd expect on the weekly test. One strategy you can use to help is: - Use empty film containers. Put lima beans with each spelling word letter on individual beans in the container. It is a "hands on" word scramble.
Social Studies
We have completed two lessons about local and state government in Unit 4, Our Country Today. We will move on to lesson 3 midweek. We have discussed and written various definitions on notecards in this unit thus far. There is a lot of information to know. Please review lessons when possible. The information will be found in their social studies folder in their binder. This will help when the test arrives next week or so.
Math
We are working in a new chapter, Addition. The children have enjoyed working through this chapter, especially when they are able to participate in interactive white board activities!
Daily Homework
Reading - 20 minutes and complete Independent Reading Folder Log
- weekly turn in on Friday
- study lesson 24 vocabulary words
- practice reading poems given to work on fluency
Spelling - Practice Page nightly to be turned in & study words for test
*Please check your child's homework and sign assignment notebook when complete.
**If your child is having difficulties with their homework please send a note and I will help them during free time.
