Week of 9/17/12

Important:
Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
Scholastic book orders will be sent home On Monday Sept. 17. The online portion of the orders is up and running. Thank you for your patience!
If you would like to donate to the classroom treasure chest, that would be very much appreciated!


Math
In Math this week, we will continue working on Chapter 1. On Thursday Sept. 20,  we will have our first Chapter test. Chapter 1, lessons 1-5. The study guide went home, so please be reviewing with your child. Also, please be practicing math facts at home with your child, we will be starting addition Math facts soon.
Spelling
We will be on List 4 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2 challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities) The homework is due on Thursday.
Reading
We will be finishing up our initial review of the Reading strategies this week. There will be a quiz on the kinds of strategies we reviewed on Wednesday Sept. 19. A short study guide will go home Monday.  We will then focus on the strategy of sequencing and summarizing. We will do this with the story Lost and Found. A vocabulary quiz on the words from that story will be the following week.
English
We will be finishing up chapter 1 in English this week and the test has been moved back to Monday September 24.  We will spend Friday reviewing in preparation for the test. A study guide will go home on Monday.  We will continue to work on DOL in school.
Social Studies

We will still be focusing on Science this week, so there will be Social Studies.
Science
In Science we will continue with Chapter 9 Water Cycle. We will be working on Lesson 2 next week; there will be an open book quiz most likely Friday Sept. 21 or Monday Sept. 24.

Have a wonderful FALL weekend :)