Week 12  October 31-November 4


Parents, students may return their readers on Tuesday this week.  We will continue with our reading groups on Wednesday and Friday this week.  Thank you for taking the time to come in and read with the students.


Math groups start this Wednesday.  Please arrive to the class at 1:05 and I will go over what your group is doing. :)

Picture Retakes 

 

Please make note that picture retakes will be taken on Friday, November 18th.  The date that was originally set on the calendar reflected November 8th, which is incorrect. Thank you in advance for understanding and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.



This week in 1B:


Literature: Monday is our Read-a-thon! We will be exploring all kinds of books and doing many after-reading activities. We can’t wait to see what literary or historical character everyone dresses up as! We are continuing Frog and Toad Are Friends and will read chapters 2, 3, and 4 this week.

 Spalding: 30 words this week – Test on Friday!

 Monday: came, Sunday, show, Monday, moon, yet, find, give, new, letter

Tuesday: take, Mr., Mister, after, thing, what, than, its, his, her

Wednesday: it’s, very, or, thank, dear, west, sold, told, best, form

 Phonograms to practice: i, m, o, t, w, ew, oo, or, ow, th

 Writing: Our narration and copy work exercises come from “Today is Monday” and “Old Mother Hubbard”.

 Grammar: We will be reviewing the four types of sentences, learning about abbreviations and titles of respect, and introducing our adverb jingle!

 Poem: “Thanksgiving Day” (Select 1 stanza to work on and memorize!)

 We will also learn the poem “Solomon Grundy” at our Read-a-thon! J

 

Idiom:

“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”

Math:

This will be a very exciting week in math! Students will be adding and subtracting two-digit numbers with one-digit numbers as we start learning all about place value. On Monday, during our read-a-thon we will get to conceptualize math in a new way as we learn from some great mathematical literature. Most exciting of all will be Wednesday when we will have our first round of math centers! 

 

Homework: 

Monday: none

Tuesday: WB 87-88

Wednesday: WB 92-92

Thursday: WB 95-96

Friday: WB 99-101

 

Science:

This week, students will review what they have learned about oceans and take a quiz on Wednesday. After that, we will begin our unit on Matter. The class will observe solids, liquids, and gases in bags and describe them. After discovering the properties of solids, liquids, and gases, the class will sort different items into those categories.

 

History:

Students will experience the process of mummification first hand by using natron salt on an apple.  We will create a hypotheses, and anticipate the results.  We will read about the famous discovery of King Tutankhamen and learn more about his earthly reign as pharaoh.

 

 Virtue of the month:  Honesty

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Have a wonderful week!