📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Our field trip to the Phoenix Zoo was a success! Chaperones - Thank you all for your support.
- Winter Concert is coming this Wednesday, December 10th.
- Our food drive continues through Friday, December 12th. Please send in items like cereal, canned meat, fruit or vegetables, peanut butter, rice & pasta, soup, stew, chili, and beans, etc... to help out. Thank you!
- Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
- December 10 - Winter Concert
- December 12th - end of Food Drive
- 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 (half-day)
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure it is emptied out at home)
💡WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
📕 SAYINGS:
- Sour grapes
- 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
📕 POETRY: We will assess the scholars poetry recitation and memorization beginning on December 8th (All poems listed below, except for The Pasture).
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.
Come, Ye Thankful People, Comeby Henry Alford
Come, ye thankful people, come,
raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in,
ere the winter storms begin.
Wheat and tares together sown
are to joy or sorrow grown;
first the blade and then the ear,
then the full corn shall appear.
Come, ye thankful people, come,
raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in,
ere the winter storms begin.
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!
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
Professor Wind the band.
📕 READING: Thank you to our parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month of December. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:10-11:45. 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 5: i and y may say 'long' i. rule 6: y not i, is used at the end of an English word.
rule 8: /er/ can be found in "Her first nurse works early." rule 13: 'sh' is used at the beginning of a base word or 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 26: Capitalize proper nouns.
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 29: divide words between double consonants
ap plelit tle
Key:new rules covered rules covered this weekrules covered in the past
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR:
📕 SAYINGS:
- Sour grapes
- 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
📕 POETRY: We will assess the scholars poetry recitation and memorization beginning on December 8th (All poems listed below, except for The Pasture).
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
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
sick
blockrock, back, neck
rule 26: Capitalize proper nouns.
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 29: divide words between double consonantsap plelit tleKey:new rules coveredrules covered this weekrules covered in the past
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: