Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Quarter 4 Week 3

Monday, April 1st 

This week we will be learning:


Spalding:

Phonograms: We work through all 70 phonograms each week. We recommend choosing a few each night to review with your scholar, specifcally those found in the words of the week.

Spelling Words: queen, season, sign, wagon, wheat, black, warm , unless, able, suit, go, gone

Cursive: We will start having our weekly phonograms, homework, and spelling test in cursive starting this week.

Spelling Test on Thursday! 

Don't forget your scholar had Spalding homework Monday-Thursday.
It is located inside their red folder.

Literature: 

Your scholar will start our next classic to keep "A Cricket in Time Square" by Garth Williams. Scholars will be identifying setting and character motives (character traits).

CURRENT Classic to Keep Needed: April 3rd 
The Boxcar Children by: Gertrude Channer Warner
Please make sure you get a copy with this ISBN.

Next Classic to Keep Needed:
The Cricket in Times Square by: George Selden
ISBN: 978-0312380038/ Amazon Link 
Please make sure you get a copy with this ISBN.
DUE: Wednesday, April 24th  

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 writing an expository paragraph about two of their favorite animals. Please assist your student with editing their rough draft as part of their Wednesday/Thursday night homework. 
 
Math:
Your scholar will be starting Chapter 6 Multiplication! with a unit test on Tuesday. They will have workbook homework Tuesday-Thursday.

  Please make sure your scholar is completing their math homework nightly when assigned. 
 
 
History:
 
Your scholar start the next unit learning about Immigration and Citizenship. 

 

Science:
Your scholar will be starting their landform unit and learning the difference between a landscape and a landform.
 
Important Dates: 

Apr. 13 - Fiestaval @ 4:00pm - 8:00pm

Apr. 26 - Holiday; R&R Weekend

May 3 - Early Release; Spring Choir Concert (Trinity Baptist Church)

May 29- Last Day of School