The Week of October 22 through 26th, 2018

Spelling: List #7 /oi/
toys     annoy     point     noise     boy     broil     joyful      join     soil     destroy
loyal     avoid     voyage     coins     voice
Review words:  fruit     rescue     computer
Challenge words:  enjoyable     poisonous
Need to Know words: 

**Test will be on Friday, October 26th.  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 adverbs.  
• Working on writing:  How authors use dialogue in their personal narratives.
• Character Traits:  Looking at Characters in stories and identifying character traits used.
• Vocabulary focus:
• Our words this week are: redundant, gesture,  acknowledge, clutch, persevere..
• Our WOW word will be: silently.
• We will wrap up 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 we will be learning about the distributive property of multiplication and 3 as a factor, multiples of 3.  
• Homework will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Homework is due the following morning. Five points will be added in the grade book 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 October Character focus is on Respect.

Respect is caring enough about others’ feelings to think before you act.

Homework:

• Math homework 
• Monday, Oct 22nd: Distributive Property of Multiplication
• Wednesday, Oct 24th: 3 as a factor

• 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 were due by Friday, Oct 5th.  They are a part of your student's grade in Reading.  

Dates to remember:

• 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.