We have a busy week ahead and a half day on Friday! Here are some important events and a look at the week to come!
Upcoming Events: October 26-November 9: Read-a-thon Friday, November 3: SPIRIT DAY and Half Day Dismissal-NO LUNCHES Thursday, November 9: Read-a-thon pages due Friday, November 10: Veteran's Day-NO SCHOOL November 16-17: Book Fair shopping at school Friday, November 17: Literary and Historical Figure Day Monday, December 4: Winter Concert Spalding- Your scholar will have 30 new words this week. Each night, your scholar will receive a piece of paper, in their red folder, with the 10 words that were studied in class that day. Please dictate the 10 words to your scholar 3 times in different orders. As your scholar writes the words, they need to also do the markings for each word. Please have your scholar write their words in their best Spalding handwriting. Markings need to be done on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Thursday you should dictate all 30 words to your scholar and NO MARKINGS need to be done on this day. Spelling test will be on Friday! ****If your child is misspelling a word, please mark it wrong and have them correct it on their homework. Scholars need to study phonograms 1-70 every night. If your scholar can say all 70 phonogram sounds, please practice having them write their phonograms as you dictate to them. Phonogram quiz will be on Friday. Math- This week in math we will begin multiplication and division. We will be looking at equal groups and connecting multiplication to repeated addition, we will use rectangular arrays to illustrate multiplication, and we will end the week by solving simple division word problems as we learn how to divide equally. There will be a quiz on Thursday. ***Students should have their basic math facts through 20 memorized. It would be good practice to have your child practice math flashcards a couple of times a week. Addition and subtraction flashcards can be purchased at most dollar stores. History- In history this week we will be learning about the Ancient Greece Olympics, Athens, and Sparta. Look for a review to come home on Thursday. There will be a quiz on Friday. We will continue to read aloud the Iliad. The students are enjoying this story and how it connects with what we are learning in history! Grammar/Writing- We will continue to work on nouns and verbs along with adding adverbs this week. Let me know if you have any questions! Have a great week! [email protected].
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It was so nice to meet with you at parent/teacher conferences! Thank you for coming in and meeting with me to discuss your student! I truly am blessed to have such a great group of learners and parents! Here is a look at the week ahead!
Upcoming Events: Thursday, October 26: Singapore Math Clinic 6 PM-7 PM Friday, October 27: Picture Retake Day Friday, November 3rd: Half Day Dismissal/SPIRIT DAY Monday, December 4th: Winter Concert Spalding- Your scholar will have 30 new words this week. Each night, your scholar will receive a piece of paper, in their red folder, with the 10 words that were studied in class that day. Please dictate the 10 words to your scholar 3 times in different orders. As your scholar writes the words, they need to also do the markings for each word. Please have your scholar write their words in their best Spalding handwriting. Markings need to be done on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Thursday you should dictate all 30 words to your scholar and NO MARKINGS need to be done on this day. Spelling test will be on Friday! ****If your child is misspelling a word, please mark it wrong and have them correct it on their homework. Scholars need to study phonograms 1-70 every night. If your scholar can say all 70 phonogram sounds, please practice having them write their phonograms as you dictate to them. Phonogram quiz will be on Friday. Math- We will continue our unit on measurement this week. We will also be comparing units of measurement like a meter stick to a yard stick or a foot to an inch. There will be a Unit test on Friday. ***Students should have their basic math facts through 20 memorized. It would be good practice to have your child practice math flashcards a couple of times a week. History- We will continue our unit on Ancient Greece. Please ask your student about the stories they are learning each day. We will learn about the barbarians, the ancient Greek lifestyles, and the Greek alphabet. As we discussed at conferences, please check their agendas for their nightly homework, as it could change daily between summaries or answering questions. There will be a quiz on Friday. Literature- We will begin reading the Iliad. Your student does not have a copy of this book so it will be a read aloud. Let me know if you have any questions! Have a great week! [email protected]. Parents,
It is the last week of the first quarter! Our scholars have worked so hard, and I'm so very proud of them and everything they have accomplished this quarter. Upcoming Events: Friday, October 6: No school October 9-13: Fall Break - No school October 16-20: Half days and parent-teacher conferences Tuesday, October 26: Singapore Math Curriculum Night - 6:00 This week: There will be 20 new spelling words this week. Please dictate the 10 words to your scholar 3 times in different orders. As your scholar writes the words, they need to also do the markings for each word. Please have your scholar write their words in their best Spalding handwriting. Markings need to be used on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, dictate all 20 words to your scholar one time. Markings are not required on Wednesday. ****Scholars need to study phonograms 1-70 every night. If your scholar can say all 70 phonogram sounds, please practice having them write their phonograms as you dictate to them. In math, we will review adding and subtracting numbers with renaming. On Monday, we will learn how to subtract from a number with a 0 (ex: 800-234). On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will review all addition and subtraction with renaming ideas. On Thursday, we will take our chapter 2 test on all addition and subtraction. ****Students should have addition and subtraction math facts with sums to 20 memorized. To support this, please have your child practice math flashcards a couple of times a week. In science this week, we will continue to learn about magnetism. Please make sure your child is studying their daily notes along with writing a 2-3 sentence summary each night. We will have a test on Thursday as well. In literature, we will finish reading The Hundred Dresses. There will be a test on the book on Thursday. There will also be a grammar quiz on the 5 parts of a complete sentence, nouns, verbs, and pronouns on Wednesday. Please let me know if you have any questions! If you did not see the parent teacher conferences sign up, I will be sending out an email tomorrow with the sign up link! Have a safe and relaxing Fall Break! Mrs. Bejarano |
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