Weekly Overview - Oct. 31-Nov.4

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROOM 14...OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 4

Dear Parents:

The end of the first trimester is this Friday! We are also taking our field trip to Hidden Villa Farm on Friday. A special notice about what to wear and what to bring for lunch went home on Friday. Please read this notice carefully!

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Phonograms:  We will learn one phonogram this week - ed (ed, d, t - puts a word in the past).  There will be a quiz on Thursday.

planted  wanted  weeded   played  showed  saved   looked   picked   jumped

Reading: Our story for this week is “The Kite”. The reading skill focus this week is cause and effect. High-frequency vocabulary cards and story vocab. will go home as part of the Monday homework. Your child should be reviewing all of the flashcards on a regular basis. Any student who has yet to pass the Level E reading text will be assessed this week.

English:  We will continue working on capitalization rules (beginning of sentences, special names, days, months, holidays, and "I"), and sentence-ending punctuation (. ? !).  We will have our first English quiz on Wednesday.

Spelling: Homework continues to be words and sentences. Please make sure that your child has a beginning capital, ending punctuation and an underlined spelling word for each sentence. Beginning next week, homework that does not follow these essential criteria will not receive full point credit. Please help your child to learn the responsible practices of checking work and following directions. Because of our field trip on Friday, our final spelling test will be on Thursday this week.

1.  rained     2.  jumped   3.  needed     4.  liked     5.  he

6.  by     7.  all     8.  has    9.  over     10.  let

MATH: We will be learning the “near double” addition strategy. If a student knows the doubles facts, she/he can count on 1 or count back to get the answer to a near double fact. For example, to find out 6+5, a student can think “5+5=10, so 5+6 equals one more, which is 11” or she/he can think “6+6=12, so 5+6 equals one less, which is 11”. There will be an addition quiz on Thursday covering the doubles and near doubles facts.

SCIENCE: We will have a science lab this Thursday at the usual time. We will be experimenting with using 4 of our 5 senses to observe some substances found in the kitchen (all safe to taste of course). We will gather information about the substances as we look at, feel, smell and taste them.

**********************SPECIAL NOTES************************

J An invitation!  You are always welcome to visit the classroom during non-instructional times (after school) to see what we’ve been up to.  The students and I work hard to make our room inviting and filled with art projects, writing projects, good work papers,etc.  Please feel free to come and have a look around or just to chat a few minutes.  Your child would love to show off his/her room! J

Other notes:

Looking Ahead: Friday, Nov.4- Hidden Villa Farm trip and Trimester 1 ends… Nov. 10 – Report cards go home… Nov. 11 – Veteran’s Day holiday… …Wed.-Fri., Nov.23-25- Happy Thanksgiving Holiday…Nov. 28-Dec.2 – Family-to-Family donation opportunity

This week will be the last week of progress reports until after Thanksgiving. Please sign and return the progress report when you receive one.

Have a great week!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Pierce