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📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

 

💡DATES TO REMEMBER
  • Monday, November 18th - 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
  • 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 


 ðŸ“• 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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