Week 4
“Be silly, be honest, be kind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was wonderful seeing all of you at Back to School night. I truly appreciate all the support I receive. The children benefit most when there is a strong home/school connection.
Please make sure your child has a healthy snack every day.
This week we are having a special chapel service on Friday at 8:25. We will not be having chapel on Wednesday.
Social Studies: We are continuing our unit on Mexico. The students are focusing on the land of Mexico. We are continuing our work on describing where it is geographically located, the different types of land formation, the plants and animals, as well as what it is like living in different climates. We are learning the following vocabulary words: geography, land formation, plains, plateau, volcano, rain forest, and climate.
Math: We are having our first chapter test on Monday, October 2nd.. It will cover addition and subtraction. We will be reviewing in class, and I will send home a review packet during the week.
ELA: Our spelling words this week are lay, real, trail, sweet, today, dream, seem, tea, treat, afraid, leave, bait, screen, speed, paint, please, yesterday, and explain We are reading and discussing Destiny’s Gift. The vocabulary words for this story are afford, customers, contacted, raise, earn, figure, block, and spreading. We are also working on antonyms, words with the opposite meaning. In grammar, we are working on identifying and writing compound sentences. We are identifying these sentence as two simple sentences joined together with a comma and a conjunction (and, but, to, and or). We are having reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and spelling tests on Friday.
Science: We are continuing to think as engineers and discussing how to identify problems.
Religion: We are studying who is God and what is the Bible. Our first religion memory test is this week. It will be on Galatians 5:22-23
TEST and QUIZZES
Wednesday Religion Memory Test
Friday ELA Tests
If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23