The Week of October 1st through 5th ,2018

Spelling: List #5 Long oo and Long u
fruit     cute     mule     stool     few     rules     new     knew     bedroom     musical
rescue     spoon     computer     moon     perfume
Review words:  height     silent     reply
Challenge words:  barbecue     suitcase
Need to Know words: such     push     funny     trust     true

**Test will be on Friday, October 5th.  Spelling tests will be the last day of the school week and a new list will be sent home on Fridays.  Students who pass the pretest on Monday with 100% will not have to take the test on Friday.

Reading/ELA:

• Focusing on Verbs
• Character Traits:  Looking at Characters in stories and identifying character traits used.
• Vocabulary focus:
• Our words this week are:  convince, swiftly, rely, rare, and precise
• Our WOW word will be: powerful
• Our novel is Wonder by R.J. Palacio.  I am reading this aloud to the class. 
• We will also be starting Robin Hood as our school-wide book selection for October.  Students will be able to dress up as characters from the book, Robin Hood on October 31st! Don't be afraid to be creative! 

Math:

• This week our lessons will be on the math practices and problem solving. We will be looking at the steps we would need to make to solve word problems involving multiple operations to solve the problem. 
• Homework will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Homework is due the following morning. Five points will be added in the gradebook for homework returned and completed.  Students who forget their homework can log on to enVision which is a link on the right side of this blog page. The homework that would have been on the page is on the website.  I will list the lesson number below under homework.   

Science:

• Scientific Process:  Focusing on identifying the problem, finding a possible solution, trying to solve with the materials provided and solving the problem.  

Character Education Focus:  

• Our September focus will be on TRUSTWORTHINESS. 

 Trustworthiness is 

• Being reliable; do what you say you’ll do
• Having the courage to do the right thing
• Being loyal; stand by your friends
• Being honest
• Not deceiving, cheating or stealing

Homework:

• Math homework 
• Monday, Oct 1st:  Lesson 2-6  Model with Math
• Wednesday, 3rd:  Reteach and vocabulary review as well as skill review for assessment on Topic 2 which will be done in class on Friday.

• Reading homework-20 minutes minimum per evening.  Put minutes on reading calendar which will be due the first week of October.  Reading homework requirement is 400 minutes per month for 100% in grade book.  Starting with the October reading calendar, students who read at least 400 minutes for the month and turn it in the first week of November will receive a free personal pizza coupon for Pizza Hut in addition to their grade.
• Reading calendars for September are due by Friday, Oct 5th.  

Dates to remember:

• October 15th through 19th:  NO SCHOOL for Fall Break
• October 24th:  End of 1st quarter.
• October 26th:  Harvest Festival from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm 
• October 31st:  Book Celebration based on the classic, Robin Hood. Party information will be sent in October.
• November 2nd: Parent Teacher Conferences from 8 am to 7 pm.  I will send sign up information in October.