The Week of November 26th through 30th, 2018

Spelling: List #11 /s/ and /z/:
Regular list: daisy     vase     plastic     zipper     reuse     sense     does     license
closet     season     bicycle     distance     service     classes     yesterday
Review words:  fashion     photograph     enough
Challenge words:  sincerely     citizen
Need to Know words:   because     clothes     news    once     please

Alternative List:  daisy     plastic     zipper     reuse     does     closet     bicycle
classes     because     clothes     news     please 

**Test will be on Friday, November 30th.  Spelling tests will be the last day of the school week and a new list will be sent home on Fridays/last day of the week.  Students who pass the pretest on Monday with 100% will not have to take the test at the end of the week.

Reading/ELA:

• Focusing on irregular plural nouns 
• Working on writing:  Beginning our Informational Writing Unit
• Reading focus:  Asking and Answering Questions
• Vocabulary focus: Reviewing all of the words we have learned and preparing for an assessment on those words.   
• We are enjoying our class chapter book, Charlotte's Web!  We are putting together our project piece by piece as we focusing on comprehension, story elements and characters.  We should finish our book this week!  

Math:

• This week we will be starting Topic 4:  Using Multiplication to Divide.
• Monday:  Lesson 4-1  Relate Multiplication and Division
• Wednesday:  Lesson 4-2 Use Multiplication to Divide with 2, 3, 4, and 5.
• 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:

• Why do our skeletons have so many bones?

Character Education Focus:  

• Our November Character focus is on Responsibility. 

Homework:

• Math homework 
• Monday, Nov. 26th:  Lesson 4-1  Relate Multiplication and Division
• Wednesday, Nov. 28th:  Lesson 4-2 Use Multiplication to Divide with 2, 3, 4, and 5.
• Spelling words:  Practice this weeks spelling words for our test at the end of the week.

• 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.
•  November Reading Calendars will be due on December 3rd.  

Dates to remember:

• November Reading Calendar is due December 3rd,

The Week of November 12th through 16th, 2018

Spelling: List #10 Double Consonants:
Regular list: spill     berry     happy     really     messy     lettuce     carrot  puzzle     traffic     pizza     errand     litter     address     collect     happen 
Review words:  however     about     flower
Challenge words:  successful     necessary
Need to Know words:   small     summer     letters     pretty     matter

Alternative List:  spill     happy     really     messy     puzzle     pizza     errand    address    collect    small    summer    pretty

**Test will be on Friday, November 16th.  Spelling tests will be the last day of the school week and a new list will be sent home on Fridays/last day of the week.  Students who pass the pretest on Monday with 100% will not have to take the test at the end of the week.

Reading/ELA:

• Focusing on regular plural nouns 
• Working on writing:  Beginning our Informational Writing Unit
• Reading focus:  Asking and Answering Questions
• Vocabulary focus:  We had a busy week last week so we will focus on these words this week:
• Our words this week are: acquire, thesis, loathe, rapidly, convey
• Our WOW word will be:  unsuccessful
• We are enjoying our class chapter book, Charlotte's Web!  We are putting together our project piece by piece as we focusing on comprehension, story elements and characters.

Math:

• This week we will be learning about the multiplication strategy, the Associative Property, which says 2x3x5 can be solved by doing (2x3) x 5 or (3x5) x 2 or (5x2) x 3.
• Monday:  Lesson 3-6  The Associative Property-Multiplying with 3 factors.
• Wednesday:  Lesson 3-7 Math Practices and Problem Solving: Repeated Reasoning.
• 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:

• Growth Mindset

Character Education Focus:  

• Our November Character focus is on Respect.

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

Scholastic Book Orders were sent home last week and the order will be placed on Friday, November 16th. You can send in orders with cash or check to school with your child or use the link on the right side of our blog to order online and use credit cards.  Our class code is GWNL2.  

Homework:

• Math homework 
• Monday, Nov. 12th:  Lesson 3-7 The Associative Property 
• Wednesday, Nov. 14th:  Lesson 3-8 Practices and Problem Solving
• Spelling words:  Practice this weeks spelling words for our test at the end of the week.

• 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.
• October reading calendars were due on Thursday, November 1st.  

Dates to remember:

• Scholastic Book Orders Due.  You can use our link on the right side of this page.  Our class code is GWNL2. 
• Thanksgiving Break is November 19th through 23rd.  
• November Reading Calendar is due December 3rd,

The Week of November 5th through 9th, 2018

Spelling: List #9 /f /
Regular list:  golfer     felt     farmer     full     feelings     family     cough     enough     roof     rough     forgetful     fashion     photograph     tough     phrase
Review words:  smile     arrive     confuse
Challenge words:  downspout     allowance 
Need to Know words:   power     account     mountain     now     about

Aternative List:  farmer     full     feelings     family     enough     roof     rough     tough     noise     half     father     front

**Test will be on Friday, November 9th.  Spelling tests will be the last day of the school week and a new list will be sent home on Fridays/last day of the week.  Students who pass the pretest on Monday with 100% will not have to take the test at the end of the week.

Reading/ELA:

• Focusing on pronouns continues
• Working on writing:  How authors use dialogue in their personal narratives. Fine tuning our stories.
• Reading focus:  Asking and Answering Questions
• Vocabulary focus:  We had a busy week last week so we will focus on these words this week:
• Our words this week are: literal,  dialogue,  rival,  passion,  claim.
• Our WOW word will be: believable 
• We are starting our class read aloud of Charlotte's Web!  We will be working on a project as we read the book together.

Math:

• This week we will be continuing using distributive property combined with focusing on 8 as a factor and multiplication facts
• Monday:  Lesson 3-5  Focusing on 8 as a factor.
• Wednesday:  Lesson 3-6 Multiplication Facts
• 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:

• Growth Mindset

Character Education Focus:  

• Our November Character focus is on Respect.

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

Homework:

• Math homework 
• Monday, Nov. 5th: Lesson 3-5 Apply properties: 8 as a factor.
• Wednesday, Nov. 7th: Lesson 3-6 Multiplication Facts
• Spelling words:  Practice this weeks spelling words for our test at the end of the week.

• 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.
• October reading calendars were due on Thursday, November 1st.  

Dates to remember:

• Thanksgiving Break is November 19th through 23rd.  
• November Reading Calendar is due December 3rd,