“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
Important Information
It was great seeing so many of you at Trunk or Treat this past Saturday. If you missed it this year, hopefully you can attend next year.
Thursday is our Fall Party. If your family celebrates Halloween, I wish you a happy Halloween.
There is no school on Friday. It is a Professional Development day. Enjoy the long weekend.
Academics
Math: This week we will continue to focusing on learning our multiplication facts, so please practice them with your child every day. We will also be exploring patterns on a multiplication chart.
ELA: For Unit 2, Week 1 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.
- 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-
Spelling: We are focusing on long e: The words are heel, week, creek, free, green, street, freeze, seal, weak, bean, speaks, team, clean, cream, field, tight, tied, cute, sixteen, and peanut.
Grammar: We are learning about complex and run-on sentences.
Phonics: Our focus will be on long a, long i, and long o words and phonograms.
Religion: In class, we are working on our Seasons of Gratitude file folder project. We are thinking of all the people, places, and things we are grateful for. When all the projects are complete, we will be hanging them in the hallway.
TEST and QUIZZES
No tests this week.
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]