Language Arts:

·       The next story in our reading series is The Perfect Pet, pages 121-139.  We learned and were tested on the vocabulary and spelling words that go with this story last week.  This week we will read the story, take the story comprehension quiz and the LA biweekly assessment.  Comprehension skills: identifying problems and solutions in a story.  The story test will be Tuesday and the assessment will be on Friday.

·       This week’s spelling words and vocabulary words are a review from all of our stories in our reading series.  A list of the spelling and vocabulary words were sent home Friday and the test will be Thursday.

·       We have finally completed our October book report on the Magic Tree House book, A Good Night for Ghosts.  Students have been given all the information they need to complete their November book report project – the milk carton cube at home, due November 30^th.   Also, don’t forget, everyone is responsible for reading at least one hundred minutes and recording it on their reading logs by November 20^th.

·       Grammar: prepositional phrases and object of the preposition, pages 10-14 in the workbook.  A prepositional phrase quiz will be given on Tuesday and prepositional phrases and objects of the preposition will be in Friday’s LA assessment.

·       Writing: Thanksgiving wishes

·       **It has come to my attention that some of the books I selected for November’s report are not available at the library, besides the Magic Tree House books.  I am working with the library to have several copies of the Pocahontas book brought in and I will also be checking out more selections for the kids to choose from.  I do have a copy of each of the six titles I assigned in the classroom and I will allow students to use those as well.  Sorry about the inconvenience.** 

Religion:

·       We will begin the week by reviewing our open book tests from Unit One…

·       Unit Two: Jesus loves and heals, chapter five pages 61-70.  Open book quiz next week.

·       Chapter Five FAMILY TIME activities for extra credit grades are due Friday, November 20th.

Math:

·       Adding a multiple of ten to a number using mental computation.

·       Ordering three-digit numbers and listing combinations.

·       Addition facts: Adding five and six.

·       Writing number sentences for “some, some more” and “some, some more went away” stories (addition and subtraction number sentences).

·       Cumulative written assessment#6, timed fact test and timed test on 2s time table (multiplication facts) at the end of this week.

Social Studies:

·       The children are very excited to begin learning about Native Americans this week, chapter seven in their textbooks.  Pretty soon we’ll be focusing on the key terms in this chapter as our vocabulary words and taking comprehension quizzes.

Science:

·       We have finally finished chapter one (“Plants”) in science!  I am very proud of the grades on last week’s test – all As and Bs!  Next in science: animal life cycles (It’s always a big hitJ)