There are a lot of smiling faces in 4A!  It’s great to see the students coming in so happy and ready to start the day.  I’m looking forward to seeing the parents at Back to School Night on Tuesday!

Week of: September 15-19

Spelling: west, steam, greed, steep, beast, shelf, member, believe, least, gleam, speck, eager, fresh, kept, reason, freedom, cheap, chief, speed, pretend Challenge:  echo, menu, creature, reveal, restaurant

Reading Vocabulary: injustice, numerous, segregation, nourishing, captured, dream, encounters, preferred, recall, example

Reading: Read “My Brother Martin” and “Langston Hughes: A Poet and A Dreamer”; analyzing text and literature terms

Grammar: Declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences; contractions

Writing: writing descriptive paragraphs

Math: renaming numbers; adding and subtracting whole numbers

Science:  Chapter 1 Systems of the Human Body; What are the skeletal and muscular systems?

Social Studies:  Chapter 1 New York and It’s First People; New York’s Regions

Religion: daily devotions

Tests:

  • Friday – Spelling; Reading/Grammar Test

Important News:

  • Tuesday is Back to School Night at 7:00pm.
  • Our first Math test will be next Wednesday, 9/24.  I will offer Math Extra Help on 9/24 at 7:45am in our classroom.

This week’s Prayer Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwQhsL98qkg

Words to Live by This Week:  Don’t just fly, soar!  (Walt Disney)