Quarter 2 Week 5

Monday, November 11th 

This week we will be learning:

Spalding:

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: dress, beside, teach, happen, begun, collect, file, provide, sight, stood, fixed, fix, born, goes, does, Tuesday, hold, drill, army, pretty, stole, income, bought, paid, laid, said, enter, railroad, unable, ticket

 

Spelling Test on Friday! 

Don't forget your scholar has Spalding homework Monday-Thursday.

It is located inside their red folder.

Literature: The Courage of Sarah Noble, Please email your teacher if you do not have a copy.

Your scholar will be participating in discussions about defining new vocabulary based on text context, answering comprehension questions, and checking their predictions.

            We will also begin our Greek Myths unit this week after we finish The Courage of Sarah Noble. 

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. 

Grammar:

Your scholar will be learning how to identify prepositions/prepositional phrases this week. 

Math:

Your scholar will be finishing up Chapter 2: Addition by taking a Check Up on Wednesday and the Chapter Assessment on Friday. 

 

Science:

Your scholars Life Cycle Project is due this Thursday 11/14! We are so excited to see their hard work and creative presentations. You scholar should also have a Organisms study guide in their red folder to study for their test on Friday. 

 

History:

You scholar should also have a Culture of Japan study guide in their red folder to study for their test on Tuesday. We are starting our unit on Ancient Greece this week! 

 

Poem:

Open House By: Aileen Fischer Due: December 16th. 

Your scholar will be practicing at school but we highly encourage parents to help their scholar practice each day at home. Making sure that they are showing expression, following punctuation, and saying the title and author.

 

Important Dates: 

• 11/17 - Early Release at 1:20, Run Club 

• 11/ 25-29 - Thanksgiving Break

• 11/ 18-21 - Concert Rehearsal in the MPR

• 11/22 - Music Concert