Thank you for your help at the Egypt Party! The scholars had an enjoyable time :)
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Saturday, October 26 - Trunk or Treat
- Wednesday, October 30 - Classical Character Day (wear classical character costume)
- Monday, November 11 - NO SCHOOL (Veteran's Day)
- Saturday, November 23 - Medieval Faire (11:00am-2:00pm)
- Tuesday, November 26 - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (we need 10 parent chaperones for each class)
- November 27 to 29 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 6 - Winter Concert
- December 16 - submit animal written report and poster board (optional)
- December 17-19 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal
- December 20-31 No School: Winter Break
- January 8 - Animal Report
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure scholars empty it at home)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We started reading "Frog and Toad Together", continued practicing how to retell and make oral summaries, and answered comprehension sheets
📕 POETRY
October's Party
by George Cooper (Stanza 1 only)
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing
Professor Wind the band.
Rope Rhyme
by Eloise Greenfield
Get set, ready now, jump right in
Bounce and kick and giggle and spin
Listen to the rope when it hits the ground
Listen to that clappedy-slappedy sound
Jump right up when it tells you to
Come back down, whatever you do
Count to a hundred, count by ten
Start to count all over again
That’s what jumping is all about
Get set, ready now,
jump
right
out!
📕 SAYINGS:
- It could always be worse.
- Let the cat out of the bag.
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- Practice makes perfect.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
Sight Word Bookmarks will be on a ring in your child's reading bag or in a binder sleeve. We will be testing for sight word knowledge once a week. During this time, we will be moving students to the next sight word list if they have mastered the previous one. (Please do not mark off sight words at home- we will do this in class).
📕 SPALDING: Continue practicing 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.
Jobs of silent final e:
Job 1: Silent final e jumps over the consonant and makes the vowel say its name.
Job 2: English words don't end in u or v.
Job 3: c and g will say their second sound.
Job 4: Every syllable needs a vowel.
Job 5: No job (silent final e does not do anything, it just has to be there).
rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable
rule 17: Double f, l, s after a single vowel that says its short sound
rule 18: "ay" is used to say a at the end of a base word
rule 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants
rule 25: ck is used after a single vowel that says its short sound.
sick
block
rock, back, neck
rule 29: divide words between double consonants
ap ple
lit tle
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 reviewed more of our numbers 11 to 20 and had a Chapter test. Please continue practicing tens and ones at home.
📕 HISTORY: Before digging deep into our unit on the Early Civilization of Americas, we learned how the first people could have probably moved to the America from Asia. We also talked about what it was like to be a hunter and a gatherer then.
📕 SCIENCE: We are getting closer to end our Habitats Unit. This week students learned about food chains. We discussed about producers, consumers, and decomposers. Also, we talked about herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
📕 MATHEMATICS: We started our unit for numbers 0 to 20. We recognized the