Monday, November 6
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: herself, power, wish, because, cause, meet (it's nice to meet you.), meat (Lions eat meat), world, country, another, tripped, trip, list, people, ever, held, church, once, one, own, before, dead, know (I know you are my friend), no (No, I will not misbehave)
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.
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 continue writing their own outline/paragraph for their two-point expository paragraph. There writing topic will be "My Favorite Colors". They will be working through the writing process of outline, rough draft, editing, and final draft. Your scholar will also be learning about homonyms (words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings).
On Monday/Tuesday, your student may bring home an editing assignment for a parent or older sibling to quickly read over their draft and help with any spelling or grammatical errors.
Math:
Your scholar will be doing a review for their check up assessment that will be on Tuesday, November 14th, the review will be sent home on Friday. Please study with your scholar and sign the review and send back (It is for a grade.) The concepts being covered are: adding a 3-digit and a 2-digit number with renaming in the tens and ones, adding two 3-digit numbers with renaming in the tens and ones, and adding up to four 2-digit numbers using different strategies.
Review: Friday, November 10th - Monday, November 13th
Test: Tuesday, November 14th
Your scholar will be learning how to complete their independent study projects with an example modeled by the teacher. We will be using the example of Irma Rangel to model this project. Your scholar will not be assigned their independent Study Project until November 17th. The final project will be due January 8th.
Your student will also be completing their Japan unit. The Study guide will be sent home Monday, November 6th, with the TEST on November 8th.
Your scholar will recite their poem in-front of their peers this week. Please be practicing with them to recite the title, author, and the poem.
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 11, which is a school day.Please note: photos will not be returned so just send in a copy of your veteran's photo.Forms will be sent home with students on Friday, November 4, 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!