Week of October 1-5

Can you believe Sunday is the last day of September?  The year feels like it is

already flying by. In fact, next Friday is our mid point for first trimester.

This week we had a blast celebrating Johnny Appleseed’s birthday. The applesauce

was delicious!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  

• A new list of words went home Monday and the test will be 10/5. If you would like to study the words at home with your child you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• This week we will be honing in on finding the theme/moral of stories and also finding key details and text evidence that proves the moral. This is a rather complicated skill, so we will take time to practice it.
• The October Reading Log will be coming home on Monday.

Social Science:

• We have started hemispheres and students have a study guide in their binders. The quiz on that will be 10/2.

Math (For families in my math class only):

• Please make sure your child has completed the study guide/pretest they were given yesterday.  It is due on Monday.
• We will go over it entirely and review for the test, which will be on Tuesday!!   We will then skip Unit 2 (for now) and start Unit 3.  We feel
• Unit 3 follows Unit 1 better than 2; we will cover Unit 2 AFTER we finish Unit 3.   

Important Dates:  

10/8 - Columbus Day (no school)

10/22 - Conference Week

Have a terrific weekend!

Week of September 24-28

Important Reminders:

• If you haven't joined our new homeroom app, please do it's a great way to see what your kids are doing in class!
• You child is coming home with a reading log for September. Please keep it all month and initial each day that they read. It will be due back on September 28th.
• Please send in a peeled, cored, and sliced apple on Tuesday, 9/25 to help celebrate Johnny Appleseed's Birthday!
• Wednesday 9/26 is an early dismissal day!

Reading/English:

• This week we will be working on reading stories and finding the theme/moral of the story.
• We will Spend Tuesday learning about who Johnny Appleseed is and celebrating his birthday by making a homemade applesauce in class. 
• We will continue to work on grammar and focus on correct sentences, commas, capitalizing proper nouns, and quotation marks. We will have some in class worksheets that will be graded after we learn about this.

Spelling:

• A new list of words will go home on Monday and the test will be 10/5. If you would like to study the words at home with your child you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!
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• Social Science:

• We will start hemispheres later in the week. The quiz on that will be 10/2.

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We will focus on subtraction strategies this week and the study guide for the test will go home on Thursday. It will be due back on Monday 10/1. The unit test will be 10/2. The best way to study for this test is to work through the study guide. However their notebook that they take notes in can be helpful as well!

Week of September 17-21

Important Reminders:

• If you haven't joined our new homeroom app, please do it's a great way to see what your kids are doing in class!
• You child is coming home with a reading log for September. Please keep it all month and initial each day that they read. It will be due back on October 1st. If you fill all 20 slots before then, they can bring it back early.
• ME BAG Presentations will start Wednesday. Your child will be coming home with their essay they wrote. Please have them practice saying it aloud. (The rubric for how they will be graded will be posted on the homeroom app)

Reading/English:

• This week we will be continuing our study of folktales. We will be reading a Harry Potter themed story and concentrating on context clues.
• Me Bag presentations will be on Wednesday and Thursday. Please be practicing.
• There will be an in class graded checkpoint on our grammar papers that have been coming home completed. 

Spelling:

• The first test will be on Friday. There will be 15 words and 2 sentences. 

Social Science:

• The continent and oceans quiz will be on Wednesday. There is a study guide in your child's folder. 

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We will be moving on to adding lengths this week.  This is still part of unit 1.

Week of September 10-14

Important Reminders:

• If you haven't joined our new homeroom app, please do it's a great way to see what your kids are doing in class!
• If you have not sent in a family picture (4X6) frame yet, please do
• You child is coming home with a reading log for September. Please keep it all month and initial each day that they read. It will be due back on October 1st. If you fill all 20 slots before then, they can bring it back early.

Reading/English:

• This week we will be starting our first unit on Folktales. We will be looking for the theme or message of various tales! 
• We also will be finishing up our final draft of our me bag writing. The presentations will be on Monday and Tuesday, September 17 and 18. We will pick days next week. They can be practicing at home toward the end of the week. 
• This week will be practicing grammar skills in class. Subject and predicate, Statement, questions, etc. 

Spelling:

• I will be giving out the students first lists. They can be practicing the words at home and the test will be Friday, September 21st. We will be working on activities in class. 

Social Science:

• We will move on to continents and Oceans this week. A quiz will be scheduled for the following week.

Math (For families in my math class only):

• There will be a short checkpoint quiz covering addition and subtraction, on Wednesday. This week we’ll be focusing on length, which will include a fun scavenger hunt.