💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Monday, October 21 - Class Egypt Party (organized by parent volunteers)
- Tuesday, October 22 - Picture Retakes
- Saturday, October 26 - Trunk or Treat
- Wednesday, October 30 - Classical Character Day
- 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 17-19 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal
- December 20-31 No School: Winter Break
- 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
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:
- 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
📕 MATHEMATICS: We started our unit for numbers 0 to 20. We recognized the numbers and how to write the number word. We learned how 11 to 20 is shown in a ten frame, and how to compare and order them.📕 HISTORY: We learned about Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh who had a great contribution to Ancient Egypt. We also wrapped up this unit and can't wait for our culminating activity with our parents on Monday!📕 SCIENCE: We talked about Rachel Carson, a great scientist and environmentalist. Students created the Rachel Carson foldable. We also learned all about food chains.