The Week of September 24th through 28th, 2018

Spelling: List #4 Long and Short o
coach     frog     though     vote     block     sold     hollow     own     fossil     cocoa
olive     option     stone     lollipop     oatmeal
Review words:  sentence     reading     bread
Challenge words:  telephone     octagon
Need to Know words:  gone     soap     above     road     rode

**Test will be on Friday, September 28th.  Spelling tests will be the last day of the school week and a new list will be sent home.  Students who pass the pretest with 100% will not have to take the test on Friday.

Reading/ELA:

• Nouns and verbs focus. 
• Character Traits:  Looking at Characters in stories and identifying character traits used.
• Vocabulary focus:
• Our words this week are:  pause     gasp     ancient     observe     brief
• Our WOW word will be: colorless focusing on suffix
• Our novel is Wonder by R.J. Palacio.  I am reading this aloud to the class. 

Math:

• This week our lessons will be on the identity property of 1 and 0 as well as multiplying by 10..  
• Homework will be on Monday, Tuesday 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, 24th:  Lesson 2-3 Identity Property of 1 and 0.  Multiplying by 1 and 0.
• Tuesday, 25th:  Lesson 2-4 Multiply by 10
• Wednesday, 26th:  Lesson 2-5 Multiplication facts 0, 1, 2, 5, 9, and 10

• 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.
• Kindness Challenge;  Students were given a Kindness Challenge Checkoff sheet on Friday.  The goal is to have them do the kindness actions listed on the paper or write in new ones and turn it in by Thursday, September 27th to receive their Kindness Recognition Award!

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.