📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- It’s a Great Hearts tradition to showcase our student artwork in our annual holiday card. If your child is interested in creating a winter/holiday themed piece of art, please upload it no later than November 30th to be considered. This is open to all students in grades K-12. You can submit your artwork here:
- Saturday, November 15: Mother Son Kickball Tournament (10:30 am) at Shawnee Park
- Tuesday, November 25th - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo
- November 26 to 28 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 10 - Winter Concert
- December 16-18 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal
- December 19-31 No School: Winter Break
- January 1-6 No School: Winter Break
- January 5-6 - Parent Teacher Conferences - invitation only (no students)
- January 7 - Animal Report due
- 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 read the last of our folktales this unit--Holland's "The Boy at the Dike" and Germany's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". We discussed the virtue of courage in the former and honesty in the latter. Ask your child to retell these stories! We also started listening and reading to a classical story of "The Best-Loved Doll."
The Goops (Table Manners)
by Gelette BurgessThe Goops they lick their fingers,And the Goops they lick their knives;They spill their broth on the tablecloth--Oh, they lead disgusting lives!The Goops they talk while eating,And loud and fast they chew;And that is why I'm glad that IAm not a Goop--are you?Rope Rhymeby Eloise GreenfieldGet 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!
October's Party
by George Cooper
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
📕 SAYINGS:
- Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.
- 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 6: y not i, is used at the end of an English word.
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
rock, back, neck
rule 26: Capitalize proper nouns.
rule 27: Words beginning with the sound /z/ are always spelled with z never s. (zoo)
Students should 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 some of the different strategies in subtracting numbers 11 to 20: