This Weeks Happenings- October 26-30

Spelling Words: Homophones (20 words & 2 bonus)
forth- (move forward)
fourth- (number four in line)
flu- (a virus which make you have a bad cold)
flew- (past tense of fly)
dew- (wetness or moisture on the ground in the morning)
due- (a time to finish or pay for something)
dear- (a greatly loved person/greeting in a letter)
deer- (an animal)
piece- (a part of something)
peace- (no more war or calmness)
heard- (past tense of hear/ when you have already listened)
herd- (a group of animals)
die- (to not live anymore or a type of stamp)
dye- (to color something)
stair- (steps you walk on)
stare (to look at something for a long time)
their- (when something belongs to a group of people)
they’re-(they are /called a contraction)
there- (tells direction or where)
rain- (water that falls from the sky/precipitation)
*rein- (straps used to hold back a horse)*reign –(when a king or queen are in charge)

This Weeks Happenings- October 19-23

Spelling This Week:

1. monster
2. complete
3. hundred
4. exchange
5. sandwich
6. surprise
7. applause
8. although
9. conflict
10. mattress
11. purchase
12. merchant
13. pumpkin
14. angry
15. Thursday
16. ostrich
17. punctual
18. address
19. chestnut
20. luncheon
Challenge: 1. extraordinary 2. chief 3. arrowhead 4. Seminole

Reading: This week we will continue Bridge to Terabithia and Monday we will get to see everyone's Bag It project.

Language Arts: We will be working on a persuasive piece of writing. On Tuesday we will take a Mock Writing Assessment to help prepare for that 5th grade writing test.

Social Studies: We will continue our Native American discovery baskets.

Math: We will continue working on 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication and we will work on relating division to multiplication.

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a safe and restful Fall Break! Monday will be the start of 2nd quarter, and that means new AR goals! I gave students a grace period this first nine weeks on meeting their AR goals, but second quarter it will definitely be part of their Reading grade.

Spelling for this week:

Words with the long e sound:

1. steam
2. reason
3. honey
4. shield
5. treat
6. screech
7. least
8. beetle
9. sweet
10. breathe
11. field
12. beast
13. valley
14. species
15. monkey
16. mean
17. capacity
18. degree
19. median
20. oxygen
CHALLENGE:
1. definitely
2. different
3. temperature
4. average

Math: For math this week we will have a Benchmark Review (review of first quarter) and begin two digit by two digit and three digit by two digit multiplication.

Social Studies: We will begin out unit on Native Americans. Students will discover the Native American regions/tribes through discovery baskets containing items that represent each region

Reading: We will continue Bridge to Terabithia and remember that Book Reports are due this Friday. I am excited to see the kids hard work!

Language Arts: We will continue our Daily Language Review with Caught YA! and we will also be reviewing the benchmark tests.

This week will be a very busy one, but it will be great! Please encourage your child to use our new computer program First in Math. They have the website and log-in information in their agendas. This is a great way for students to practice basic math facts.

This Week...

Tuesday and Wednesday we will have Benchmark Testing in Language Arts and Math.

Spelling: Due to the 3-day week, we will have no spelling this week!

Language Arts/Reading: Benchmark Testing, 1st Quarter Review: synonyms, sentence types, nouns, verbs, subjects, predicates, and narrative elements. On Wednesday I will be assigning a book report-students must chose a realistic fiction chapter book-it will be due October 16th.

Math: 1st Quarter Review: PLace Value, Multiplicaiton, Division, Decimals, Rounding, Order of Operations, and Properties of Multiplication.

Science: Ecosystem Review

Social Studies: Map Skills

This Weeks Happenings...

Spelling Words:

1. steak
2. plain
3. agent
4. weight
5. amaze
6. danger
7. brain
8. bacon
9. brave
10. escape
11. paper
12. neighbor
13. trace
14. cable
15. behave
16. scale
17. eighth
18. radius
19. table
20. eight
Challenge: international, potatoes, ordinary, incredible

Reading: We will begin reading Bride to Terabithia

Math: We will be reviewing all the skills we learned this quarter including order of operations and the properties of multiplication.

Social Stuides: In preperation for our USA cookie Friday, we will be learning about the regions and geographic features of the United States

Language Arts: We will be finishing up our How To paragraphs and focusing on grammar skills, especially the parts of speech

Science: We will have our Ecology test this Wednesday, Septemeber 23rd!

This Week's Happenings...

Spelling Words:
1. bunch
2. cheese
3. hunch
4. shift
5. charge
6. perch
7. ranch
8. pinch
9. cherry
10. sheep
11. punch
12. cheap
13. shelter
14. chief
15. chance
16.chilly
17. shrub
18. branch
19. research
20. publish
Challenge: 1. surprised 2. banana 3. popular 4. reference


Reading: We will being reading our first chapter book: Bridge to Terabithia

Math: We will be working on the properties of multiplication and the Order of Operations

Science: We will continue our Ecosystem Unit

Social Studies: Regions of the United States in order to prepare for our USA cookie September 25th

Language Arts: Parts of Speech

What is going on this week?

Spelling Words:

1.capital
2. natural resource
3. human resource
4.market
5. shopping list
6. harvest
7. wheat
8. ingredients
9.island
10. world
11.napping
12.accent
13.making
14.delicious


Reading: We will be reading the book, "How to Make An Apple Pie and See The World" We will be tying this into our unit in SS on geography.

Science: We will continue our unit on Ecosystems.

SS: Geography skills

Math: Properties of Multiplication, review subtraction, word problems, and rounding

LA: We will take a test over Types of Sentences and then move into the Parts of Speech.