Week of October 15th

Reminder that it is early dismissal for the week of the 15th due to parent/teacher conferences.

Important Dates:

October 12th-Fall Festival

October 15th-19th-Conference Week

October 31st-Spirit Day/Fresh Fruit Day

November 2nd-9th-Book fair

November 6th-Election Day/No School

November 11th-16th-Canned Food Drive

November 19th-23rd-Thanksgiving Holiday/No School

Grammar: We will continue to review common, proper, singular, and plural nouns.

Spelling: We will be working on words that have final blends. Final blends are 2 consonants blending together at the beginning of the word. You can still hear each sound the word . You can practice at home by giving your student phrases and sentences to practice. You say the sentence, have the student repeat, then pound their hand for each word they hear as they repeat with you again, then have them write. Check for capital at the beginning of the sentence, stretch the words, space the words, and punctuation at the end. Green Words: wilt, kept, quilt, fast, bunch, lunch, help, dust, bend, jump, chest, dent. Nonsense Words: tump, felp, clunch, thend, brust, prent, nept, spalst, wust. Red Words: goes, want, were, some, our.

Reading: We will focus this week on sequence of events. Sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story — the beginning, middle, and end — and also to the ability to retell the events within a given text in the order in which they occurred. The ability to sequence events in a text is a key comprehension strategy, especially for narrative texts.

Writing: This 9 weeks we will focus of informational writing. Informational writing is a type of nonfiction writing that conveys information about something, which means it is factual. Many examples of informational writing can be found in newspapers, almanacs, and reference books. Informational text is often organized so the reader can easily and quickly find information.

Math: We will focus on expanding our knowledge of place value with skip counting, comparing, representing, and ordering numbers.

Social Studies: We will continue studying Creek and Cherokee Native Indians. We will finish the week creating Creek and Cherokee projects at school and presenting them. We will learn how they adapted to their environments, which tools they used, which Georgia region they lived in, what they grew on their land, what type of clothing they used, and the homes that they lived in.