Relay for Life on Friday was amazing! I was completely in awe of the dedication and the creativity among the different boothes. Our children did an awesome job of contributing money and making the beautiful purple chains. Hats off to all of you that contributed in time and money as well. It is such an important cause!
Spelling this week contains base words along with the ending -en. The words are posted on the side of the blog. Tonight for homework the children are to write the -en version in cursive.
This week in Math we will continue our work on parentheses in math, fact extensions for multiplication and division, estimating costs, and extended facts that are products of 10. You will want to ask your child about the challenge work we were doing in class today with parentheses and only the number 3. PLEASE continue to practice the multiplication facts. Don't forget to turn in the multiplication strips that the children were given a week ago. I am giving the children credit for completing the strips. They should be completed by Wednesday of this week. Tonight for math homework, the children are to complete workbook page 168 (7.5).
The children are back to the weekly Reading Comprehension activity. The name of this reading is Under the Big Top. The objective of this passage is the use of figurative language. After the children have read the passage orally and independently, they are to write in their own words what they think each figurative phrase really means.
This week, we are working/reviewing plurals and possessives. The children have a practice page in their homework folder that I asked them to review tonight and tomorrow night. They will have a quiz on these plurals on Wednesday. Each day we will take a specific grammar skill to review in preparation for ERB's and for life.
We will begin our new lesson in Wordly Wise. Lesson 12 words include: adopt, arouse, arrange, cell, infection, influence, injure, injury, pattern, series, vision.
We will complete our final Native American group, The Iroquois. Once we have had time to read and complete our chart, we will begin planning our personal narratives as if we are one of the members of these tribes. We will do most of the writing in class. However, one night I will send it home to be proofread one more time so that you will be able to see what they have written.We will also begin our Sawgrass Independent project which will be completely done in school. The children may come home and want to do some research on their own at home, or collect items to be used for their visual. We will be talking about his later on this week.
Tomorrow, we will take our Architectural Tour of downtown St. Petersburg. We will leave school at 8:30 and return by 10. Please make sure that your child has a healthy breakfast since we will not have our snack until we return. I would also make sure that they wear good walking shoes with socks.
Please make sure that your child is completing and turning in their reading logs. I have many more that I can share if your child has misplaced the reading log. I am keeping track of the children who do turn in the reading logs.
You are NOT going to want to miss the Scratch Projects. Go to the top of my blog and click on Scratch Projects. You can find your child's project by name. The children are also encouraged to play the other games that their classmates created.
Thank you for your continued support and help at home. I can't tell you what a difference it makes!
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