“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
Important Information
November is full of short school weeks. Election Day is on Tuesday, so if you haven’t voted yet, please make sure you exercise your right and get out and vote. Also, Tuesday is Picture Day at Trinity. On Friday, there is no school as we are honoring our veterans on Veteran’s Day.
During our last few weeks we have been enjoying the warm weather, but I think that after Monday, the weather should be more seasonal.
Mr. DeVries has started working with the children preparing them for our Christmas show. In the past, he has sent home lines for children to memorize, and I believe he will be doing that again this year. Please help your child memorize any lines that he or she might have.
Speaking of memorization, the children need to memorize their multiplication facts. Please review flash cards nightly.
Academics
Math: We are finishing up our module on the Identity Property of Multiplication, the Zero Property of Multiplication, the Distributive Property, the Associative Property of Multiplication, and patterns. We are having the test on Wednesday.
ELA: For Unit 2, Week 2 our essential question is “How do people make government work?” The following is a list of everything we will be covering in ELA, including our vocabulary and spelling words.
- Genre: Expository Text
- Shared Reading: Every Vote Counts
- Anchor Text: Vote!
- Paired Selection: A Plan for the People
- Comprehension: Reread
- Headings and Bar Graphs
- Author’s Purpose
- Author’s Claim
- Vocabulary Words
- announced
- candidates
- convince
- decisions
- elect
- estimate
- government
- independent
- Prefixes: un- and re-
- Week 1 Spelling Words
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- Long e: e, ea, ee, e_e, ie, ey, y
- Structural Analysis: inflectional endings
- heel
- week
- creek
- free
- green
- street
- freeze
- seal
- weak
- bean
- speaks
- team
- clean
- cream
- field
- tight
- tied
- cute
- sixteen
- peanut
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- Week Grammar
- singular and plural noun
Social Studies: We are in our chapter on Our Environment. This week we will focus on cause and effect and interacting with the environment.
Religion: We are learning why we should study the Bible. Our Prayer video is Every Praise by Hezeziah Walker
TEST and QUIZZES
Wednesday Math Test
NO ELA TEST this week, it will be next TUESDAY, November 15th
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]