💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- October 9-17 - No School (Fall Break)
- October 16-17 - Parent Teacher Conferences, no students
- October 23 - Class Egypt Party (organized by parent volunteers)
- October 25 - Classical Character Day
- November 21 - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (we need 10 parent chaperones for each class)
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure it is emptied out at home)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We've just finished The House at Pooh Corner. We learned a lot about friendship and little lessons about life from those friends! After Pooh and his friends, we met Owl at Home. We will find out more about him next week!
In Grammar, we have also been learning that a sentence is made up of a subject and a predicate.
📕 SAYINGS: "Practice makes perfect"
📕 POETRY: The students practice reciting and memorizing these every week. They will do a poetry recitation in front of the class on the last week of the quarter.
What are Heavy
by Christina Rossetti
What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
What are deep? The ocean and truth.
Flint
by Christina Rossetti
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds fire.
Work (Work While You Work)
by Anonymous
Work while you work,
Play while you play,
This is the way
To be happy each day.
All that you do,
Do with your might,
Things done by half
Are never done right.
Hearts Are Like Doors
by Anonymous
Hearts, like doors, will open with ease,
To very, very little keys,
And don't forget that two of these
Are "Thank you, sir" and "If you please!"
Don’t Worry if Your Job is Small (Mighty Oak)
by Anonymous
Don't worry if your job is small,
And your rewards are few.
Remember that the mighty oak,
Was once a nut like you.
Hope
by Langston Hughes
Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.
📕 READING: Thank you to our parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:10-11:45. Check your teacher's page below for the reading volunteer signup.
Mrs. Aguayo
Mrs. Santiago
Ms. Baines
https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/85643710095/false?popup=true#/invitation
📕 SPALDING: Students will practice at home the phonograms they haven't mastered yet. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
📕 MATHEMATICS: We started our unit on Subtraction and discussed when to use them to take away and take a part. You may continue the discussion at home. We will also be sending home a new set of +4 addition facts in their Math Facts ring next week.
📕 HISTORY: We opened our unit on Ancient Egypt, studied its geography--and the fact that its home of the longest river in the world! We created a foldable of the Nile. Have your child use the crocodile cut-out to tour you along the Nile! We also learned about Ancient Egyptian Farming.
📕 SCIENCE: We learned about forests and the different tree types, compared different trees and their characteristics. Students learned where the Sequoia National Forest is on the US map. We created a foldable with different types of trees. This week we talked about Desert Habitats and the living and non living things that are part of this habitat.