December 7-11
Week 16 - Nutcracker Trip Friday
News This Week
Scholastic Forms: Please return Scholastic Release Forms so that our class photos can be used. I can send another one if you need it. Thanks to those that have already returned forms!
Tuesday: Tomorrow we will be practicing our rotations for a day. Students will do the same work but will visit Mrs. Blackmon and Mrs. Bowen. We did a quick run-through today to get organized.
Field Trip: Our trip is Friday. We will leave at 10:30 and return at 12:45. Snack will be in the morning. Students need to bring sack lunches, as no one requested a cafeteria lunch.
Tests: Due to the field trip, we will try to take our tests Thursday this week.
Holiday: Please send in $5.00 to help with the cost of keepsakes, food, and activities for the holiday party. Our party will be on PJ day, Thursday the 17th, starting in the morning with a breakfast.
Snow Wizard Tuesday - $1.00
Studies this Week
- Skills: Reading Two Passages on the Same Topic - comparing and contrasting poetry
- RL 3.9 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series)
- We will also be working on reader's theater
- Phonics: wr, kn, mb, gn
- Vocabulary: Vocabulary Workshop Unit 3
Spelling
- Practice spelling and writing words. Visit spellingcity.com/meverette for more practice. The story title is "Volcanoes".
- Words this week: thumb, gnaw, written, know, climb, design, wrist, crumb, assign, wrench, know, wrinkle, lamb, knob, knit, wrestler, bologna, cologne, honeycomb, knickknack
Math
- Division - Our main focus right now is seeing the relationship to multiplication and deciding when to multiply and divide.
- Facts - begin memorizing all multiplication facts. We will start division before the holidays!
Vocabulary
Vocabulary: active, bargain, gasp, loyal, resource, sensitive, struggle, value, vary, wander
Writing
We will work on expository writing with comparing and contrasting.
Grammar
- Capitalizing titles
- Capitalize the first and last word, nouns, verb, adjectives, subordinating conjunctions, and most words longer than 3 letters
Science
- Force and Motion
Social Studies
- Students can logon to Studies Weekly at home by going to studiesweekly.com
- Daily Geography
Please Send $5.00 for Holidays
Practice at Home
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How did these specific characters solve the problem in different ways across this series of stories?
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How are the problems these specific characters face similar across this series of stories?
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How are the themes/plots/settings in (author’s) books (title) and (title) alike and different?
Important Dates
December
8 - Snow Wizard $1.00
11 - Field Trip to the Nutcracker Ballet
15 - PTA 6:00, Kindergarten Performs
17 - Christmas Parties / PJ Day
18 - 1/2 Day, Last Day of Q2