11 / 22 / 2024

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Our scholars enjoyed the symphony last Monday!

• See you at the Medieval Faire tomorrow!!
• Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration! 
• Winter Concert is coming in two weeks. Please see Mrs. Carpenter's email regarding the reminders.
• Please check the field trip information letter we sent this week. Scholars should bring a sack lunch, disposable water bottle and a separate snack all labeled with your child's name. 

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

• Saturday, November 23 - Medieval Faire (11:00am-2:00pm)
• Tuesday, November 26 - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo 
• November 27 to 29 - Thanksgiving Break (R&R weekend)
• December 11 - Winter Concert
• December 16 - submit animal written report and poster board (optional)
• December 17-19 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal 
• December 20 - January 7 -  No School: Winter Break
• January 6 & 7 - Parent Teacher Conferences - by invitation only
• January 8 (half-day) - Animal Report due

💡REMINDERS:

1. Please double check your child's uniform to make sure they still have the right length.

2. The scholars should bring the following daily:

• Water bottle with name
• Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
• Take Home folder (please make sure it is emptied out at home)

*Your child may use the small backpack-shaped checklist of the things they need to bring to help them pack their things. 

3. Please review the Driveline procedure here: directionsforparentsdrivelin.docx We have also attached the file in the resources on the right side of this webpage.

💡WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK 

 📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: 

We learned about The Best-Loved Doll and her great-hearted owner, Betsy. We also read the classic Thanksgiving poem / song "Over the River and Through the Woods"

In Grammar, we practiced writing our full names and birthdays with proper capitalization.

📕 SAYINGS: Sour grapes

 

📕 POETRY: We will assess their poetry recitation and memorization in the next 2 weeks

The Pasture by Robert Frost
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;

I'll only stop to rake the leaves away

(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf

That's standing by the mother. It's so young,

It totters when she licks it with her tongue.

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

The Goops (Table Manners) 

by Gelette Burgess 

 The 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 I 

Am not a Goop--are you? 

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!

The Caterpillar 

by Christina Rossetti 

Brown and furry 

Caterpillar in a hurry; 

Take your walk

To the shady leaf, or stalk.

May no toad spy you, 

May the little birds pass by you; 

Spin and die,

To live again a butterfly. 

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.

• 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

📕 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 12:30-1:00. Check your teacher's page on top for the reading volunteer signup. 

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 13: sh is used at the beginning or end of a base 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

block 

rock, back, neck

                    Rule 27: Words beginning with the sound /z/ are always spelled with z never s. (zoo)

                      Rule 28: ed has three sounds and is added to form the past tense of regular verbs.

 

rule 26:  Capitalize proper nouns. 

rule 29:  divide words between double consonants

ap ple

lit tle

 

📕 MATHEMATICS: This week, we practiced how to solve word problems such as finding the missing part, missing whole and comparison problems. We learned how to represent the problem with our cube train/stack and the bar model. We'll have our test on Subtraction next week.

📕 HISTORY: We started our Three Major World Religions Unit. We learned that the major ones are Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which all started in the middle east in between ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia. We recalled how the other two civilizations believes in many gods, but these three religions believed in only one God. We learned that the Jews’ holy book is the Torah which tells about Moses. We made a craft of Moses in the Rushes to remember how he was saved from being killed by the Pharaoh.

📕 SCIENCE:   We are still studying about the human body! We talked more about the digestive system and about healthy food. We explored our Circulatory System and how our hearts work. 

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11 / 15 / 24

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Sign up for the Medieval Faire for next Saturday, November 23rd!

https://signup.com/group/511816922044

 

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

• Monday, November 18^th - Phoenix Symphony performance
• 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 (R&R weekend)
• December 11 - Winter Concert
• December 16 - submit animal written report and poster board (optional)
• December 17-19 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal 
• December 20 - January 7 -  No School: Winter Break
• January 6 & 7 - Parent Teacher Conferences - by invitation only
• January 8 (half-day) - Animal Report due

💡REMINDERS:

1. Please double check your child's uniform to make sure they still have the right length.

2. The scholars should bring the following daily:

• Water bottle with name
• Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
• Take Home folder (please make sure scholars empty it at home)

3. Please review the Driveline procedure here: directionsforparentsdrivelin.docx We have also attached the file in the resources on the right side of this webpage.

💡WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK 

 📕 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"

We will start reading "The Bears on Hemlock Mountain" in the next weeks. Kindly have your student bring them in if you haven't yet. Thank you!

 

 

📕 POETRY 

 

The Goops (Table Manners) by Gelette Burgess 

The 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 I

 

Am not a Goop--are you? 

 

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: 

• 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

📕 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 12:30-1:00. Check your teacher's page on top for the reading volunteer signup. 

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 27: Words beginning with the sound /z/ are always spelled with z never s. (zoo)

                      Rule 28: ed has three sounds and is added to form the past tense of regular verbs.

 

rule 26:  Capitalize proper nouns. 

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 some of the different strategies in Subtracting Numbers 11 to 20:

1. Counting Back

2. Subtract the Ones First

3. Break Apart the 10 and Subtract from the 10

4. Other Ways to Break Apart the Number

5. Related Addition Facts / Fact Families

We also did our Performance Task and Chapter Review in our books. We'll have our Addition test on Monday. 

📕 HISTORY: We learned about the Inca royalty and created our own Sapa Inca headdress. We also learned about the Mayan's version of their creation story.

📕 SCIENCE:  We are still studying the Human Body. Students learned about the Respiratory system. Students colored models of the lungs and learned facts about breathing. Ask your child these questions: What gas do we inhale?(oxygen) What gas do we exhale? (carbon dioxide) Also, we talked the digestive system and how it works when we eat food.

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