There will be no school on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Xtra Math: Please remember to have your child do Xtra Math Monday though Friday. They will get the best results from doing the practice one time per day. If your child missed one day this week, please have him or her do it on Saturday or Sunday so that he or she is getting five days of practice.
The next reading challenge is to get to 150 Reading Counts points by December 14th. Students who meet the challenge will be treated to a pizza party the following Monday. By getting to 150 points by this day, students are on the path to earning the Reading Counts Spend-the-Night party at the end of the school year. Emelia, Noah, Caroline, Alayna, and Jonathan have already met the second quarter challenge!
Book Report: The students should choose a fantasy chapter book that is third grade or higher (fourth grade or higher if in my reading group). The book must be a Reading Counts book. Students need to finish reading the book by December 14th.
Reading: Until Thanksgiving, my reading group will be focusing on the following skills: how to use a table of contents, index, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus as well as the three main author's purposes for writing and the most used prefixes and suffixes. After Thanksgiving, we will begin The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
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Cursive Handwriting: Students need to work on slowing down to improve neatness. Students need to focus on making sure to close a, o, and d.
Language: We will learn how to form contractions.
Spelling: Please make sure your child leaves the spelling workbook in his/her binder. There is no new spelling list for this week. Students must also know the definitions for the vocabulary words and how to spell the words that are part of the definition. The test will be on Thursday. Under the spelling grade on each test is a grade (S, W, N, or U) for their cursive. You can go to www.spellingcity.com for online practice of the grade level spelling words each week. Just go "Find a List" and then for the teacher type in "Brenda Speir." All the lists for the entire year will appear. Just choose the one for this week.
Writing: Students are writing their final draft of their five paragraph essay about what they are thankful for.
Timed Tests: Timed tests will be on Tuesdays this year. This quarter we will focus on addition and subtraction. Students have 1 minute for 25 problems, 2 minutes for 50 problems, or 4 minutes for 100 problems.
Math: We will cover lessons 4-10 and complete Diagnostic Checkpoint 4B. A copy of this is in the math book and online. You are welcome to do it as practice at home.
Science: We will begin Unit A Chapter 2 called "Types of Animals."
Bible: No new verse this week.