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,