Monday, October 30
Faculty,
staff, and students are invited to honor their family members who have served
in the military by filling out a short info form and attaching a photo to be
displayed in the library on November 10, which is a school day.
Please
note: photos will not be returned so just send in a copy of your veteran's
photo.
Forms
are coming home with students today, October 30, and extra forms can be
requested from your teacher or downloaded here. Please return the forms to
school by Tuesday, November 7.
Thank you to all those who have served!
Phonograms: We are starting to work through all 70 phonograms each week. We recommend choose a few each night to review with your scholar.
Spelling Words: war, summer, above, express, turn, lesson, half, father, anything, table, high, June, right (Turn right at the next intersection), write (Please write neatly), wrote, date, road (we drive on the road), rode (I rode my bike yesterday), ride, March, next, indeed, four
Spelling Test on Friday!
Your scholar will be participating in discussions about defining new vocabulary based on text context, answering comprehension questions, and checking their predictions.
We are start the next classic-to-keep this week. Please make sure you send a copy to school with your scholar with their name inside so if it gets lost or misplaced we can return it to them.
Reading Log:
Each day, students will bring home a book of choice from the GHNO classroom library. At home, students will read this book aloud to an adult.
Each day please log:
1. The title of the classroom library book read.
2. The total minutes your student spent reading (20 minutes minimum).
3. Parent initials confirming minutes read.
Please make sure your scholar is reading and this log is filled out and turned in on Mondays.
It will be counted as a quiz grade.
Your scholar will be learning about what is a preposition, what is an object of the preposition, and what the difference between prepositions and adverbs. Along with this review, your scholar will be working on their final draft of their two-point expository paragraph.
Math:
Your scholar will be continuing their journey with renaming by adding a 3-digit and a 2-digit number with renaming in the tens and ones and adding two 3-digit numbers with renaming in the tens and ones. Later in the week, your scholar will be learning how to add three or four 2-digit numbers to find a total.
***Math Homework is written in the agenda. Please review the agenda to make sure students are completing their homework assignments.
Help your scholar at home start practicing this poem. They will have to recite the title, authors and poem in-front of their classmates.
Dress Code for Students for Athletic Field Day:
· City-State or House shirt
· Athletic shorts or pants (modest, loose-fitting, in good repair)
· Athletic shoes
· Logo-free jackets, sweatshirts, and/or hats (if needed)
· Sunscreen if needed
Students should not wear:
· Tank tops, midriff shirts, camisoles, sports bras as outer garments
· Short-shorts or long, baggy shorts
· Volleyball spandex shorts unless covered by loose-fitting athletic shorts
· Sandals, open-toed, or platform shoes