The Week of December 3rd through 6th, 2018

Spelling: List #12 Ending with -ed/-ing:
Regular list: studying     joking     served     dropped     exciting     noticing     cared     beginning     dripping     changed     stopped     walking     sleeping     acting     trying 
Review words:  address     errand     collect 
Challenge words:  decorating     prepared
Need to Know words:  clothing     stopping     going     fixed     tried

Alternative List:  joking     served     dropped     cared     stopped     walking     sleeping     trying     clothing     stopping     going     tried

**Test will be on Thursday, December 6th.  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:

• Unit 1 Review
• 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.   Test will be Thursday, December 6th.
• We will be starting our new class novel this week, Mouse and the Motorcycle!  We really enjoyed Charlotte's Web!

Math:

• This week we will be starting Topic 4:  Using Multiplication to Divide.
• Monday:  Lesson 4-3  Use Multiplication to Divide with 6 and 7.
• Wednesday:  Lesson 4-4 Use Multiplication to Divide with 8 and 9.
• 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 is Mars Red?

Social Studies: 

• Using a Map Grid

Character Education Focus:  

• Our December Character focus is on Responsibility. 

Homework:

• Math homework 
• Monday, Nov. 26th:  Lesson 4-3 Use Multiplication to Divide with 6 and 7.
• Wednesday, Nov. 28th:  Lesson 4-2 Use Multiplication to Divide with 8 and 9.
• 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 Calendars are due now.
• Class Christmas Party is on Friday, December 21st from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. More details will follow soon.