What is going on this week? 11/2/09-11/6/09

Spelling this week:

1. castle
2. handle
3. ruffle
4. icicle
5. fable
6. soccer
7. appear
8. hollow
9. classic
10. college
11. accent
12. service
13. jersey
14. mother
15. problem
16. subject
17. complete
18. mattress
19. purchase
20. luncheon
Bonus: 1. mystery 2. alibi 3. detective 4. suspect

Reading: This week we will continue reading Bridge to Terabithia and work on our mystery books. We will be completing an in-class project on the mystery book that students have checked out.

LA: We will continue to work on our persuasive piece of writing

SS: WE will be moving into our unit on Explorers

Math: We will be continuing long division.

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.