“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” Luke 2:14
Important Information
The children have been rehearsing their lines and songs with Mr. DeVries, and now it’s time for the show! On Monday and Tuesday, during school, we are going to have dress rehearsals. Children should wear their uniforms to school, and bring their costumes to change into. On Tuesday night, I’m pretty sure Mr. DeVries wants the students to arrive at school in their costumes and be in our classroom no later than 7:00. If there is a change of plans, he will let you know. It is going to be a great show! If you have any questions, please contact Mr. DeVries at [email protected].
Academics
Math: We are continuing our work with division. We will be focusing on specific divisors.
ELA: For Unit 3, Week 1 our essential question is “What do we know about Earth and its neighbors?” The following is a list of everything we will be covering in ELA, including our vocabulary and spelling words.
- Genre: Expository Text
- Shared Reading: Earth and Its Neighbors
- Anchor Text: Earth
- Paired Selection: Why the Sun is Red
- Summarize
- Key Words and Charts
- Central Idea and Relevant Details
- Personification
- Vocabulary Words
- amount
- astronomy
- globe
- solar system
- support
- surface
- temperature
- warmth
- Suffixes: -y, -ly
- Spelling Words
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- r-Controlled Vowels
- whirl
- third
- girls
- firm
- fern
- herds
- stern
- serve
- hurt
- nurse
- turns
- learn
- pearl
- word
- world
- stretch
- thick
- whales
- perfect
- Thursday
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Social Studies: We are learning about how economic choices are made.
Science: In this lesson, students explore the idea that the rock under our feet sometimes contains fossils, and investigate how these fossils reveal changes in habitat through time. In the activity, Fossil Dig, students use paper to create a model fossil dig. They identify traits of fossils to determine what the habitat looked like when these organisms were alive. Then they use this information to figure out where some Mystery Fossils belong in their fossil dig. Vocabulary words are habitat, desert, forest, grassland, ocean, and polar.
Religion: We are focusing on the birth of Jesus.
TEST and QUIZZES
Thursday Science Vocabulary quiz
Friday Spelling Test
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]