Dear Parents,

How are you all doing? I hope you all had a restful weekend. Here is a quick look at our 16^th week.

LANGUAGE ARTS  

SPALDING – We will continue with our spelling list this week. Please, review homework as they come home.

List 1: maybe, across, tonight, tenth, sir, these, those, club, seen, see

List 2: felt, full, fail, setting, set, stamp, light, coming, come, night

List 3: pass, shut, easy, ease, bone, cloud, draw, drink, garden, goose

READING – READING STRATEGY: We will continue to explore how to organize non-fiction text in comprehension.

POETRY: Title: Our poem this month is “The Night before Christmas” by Clement C. Moore. Encourage your scholars to start memorizing this poem. We will complete all poetry recitals for “Merry autumn” on Monday.

SAYING: “Great oaks from little acorns grow." We will appreciate it if you use it at home because children retain sayings when they engage in it through meaningful use.

           

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – Students will learn how to use quotation marks this week.

WRITING – As we work with Writing With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and copy work skills. They will be introduced to letter writing. All students are expected to bring their postal address to school latest Tuesday.

LEVELED READERS

Please, encourage your scholars to take their readings seriously. There are three pages of reflection and three books. They are expected to log in one book per page. Please, remind them to write the title of the text on the page they work on. We have seen some excellent writing skills thus far. By the beginning of second semester, we will start sending home chapter books.

MATH

Last week, we introduced students to the concept of multiplication. This wek, we will focus on the concept of division.

SCIENCE

We will finish the life cycle of plants and frogs this week. Children will observe the lima beans planted for the last time and discuss observations since the last time it was planted.

HISTORY

  We will finish learning the names of the most common gods and goddesses of Greece. We will also learn about the Trojan war and what let to the beginning of the war. Review guides will come home on Wednesday. They will complete the test for the first part of the Ancient Greece unit.

VIRTUE

Courage

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. – Pope John Paul II

Announcements

·      Our winter concert is on Dec 4^th. It will begin at 5:30pm.  Please, read a letter from Mrs. Kaye on my blog. Make sure your scholars are dressed in the proper attire. I will repost the letter from Mrs. Kaye.

·      We will have guided reading on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

·      I will share survey results with parents in the coming week.

Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson