It was nice meeting with parents during conferences. Your children are such a gift to spend each day with! I look forward to continued communication with families throughout the school year as we all work to help the children reach their personal goals.
WEEK: November 18-22
SPELLING: Congratulations to Melanie M. and Rebekah for winning our Spelling Bee on Friday! learn, dirty, worn, sore, thirst, burn, record, cure, board, course, worth, early, return, pure, world, search, worse, thirteen, sport, current Challenge Words: curious, thorough, earnest, portion, foreign
READING: Aloud “Mexican Dove”; Anchor text, “Jose! Born to Dance” VOCABULARY: debut, stubborn, permission, hauling, mournful, towered, triumph, discouraged, toured, border
GRAMMAR: subject, object, reflexive, demonstrative pronouns
WRITING: Thanksgiving writing assignment
MATH: division wit distributive property and partial quotients
SOCIAL STUDIES: Test on Chapter 4
SCIENCE: Miniseries: Why are some apples red and some green?
RELIGION: Daily devotions; know the Ten Commandments in order
TESTS THIS WEEK:
- Wednesday – Social Studies, Chapter 4
- Thursday – Memory Quiz
- Friday – Spelling, Reading, Grammar
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The first Extra Effort Opportunity is due on Friday, 11/22 (Explorer Project).
- RELIGION MEMORY REMINDER: Students are given the Memory work one week in advance. They should read it once or twice each night in order to be prepared for the weekly quiz. These are short prayers, Bible verses, or parts of our Religion curriculum and effort in this subject is expected.
- Turkey Trot Registration ($3 and form) is due Friday. This is a fun event and a school wide fundraiser. It would be nice if the whole class participates.
This week’s prayer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6-Pky8KFoQ