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,