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Week of 10/17/16

Sunday, October 16th, 2016
Specials:
Monday: Day 2: Computer
Tuesday Day 3: Music/P.E.
Wednesday: Day 4: Spanish/Music
Thursday: Day 5: Art
Friday: Day 1: Spanish/P.E.

Math: This week we will continue Topic 4, Dividing by 1-digit numbers.

Reading: This week we will continue our new theme, Seeking the Unknown. Students will work in small groups with me and complete reading rotations working on the following skills: Summarizing, Fact and Opinion, and Idioms. Students will meet with their new Inquiry group and develop a question based on our theme question, "Why Do People Seek the Unknown?" Inquiry Research #1 will be due next Monday, 10/24.

Writing: Students will work in writing workshop. They will use their Poet's Toolbox to create Fall/Halloween poems.

Social Studies: Chapter 5

Spelling: Test will be Tuesday, 10/25.
Theme 2, Week 3 Day 1
Vowel + r Sounds
beware
aboard
adore
aware
dairy
bore
pardon
absorb
perform
barge
stairway
glory
barely
armor
soar
torch
Review Words:
destroy
awkward
Frequently Misspelled Words:
again
coming

Homework packet will be due Friday. The October Book It Calendar came home at the beginning of October. Many are storing it in their purple folder. This is a required assignment. Students need to record their out of school reading minutes each day. The goal for October is 620. All students will turn in their calendars, signed by a parent, at the end of the month. Please support your child in this long-term assignment.

Important Reminders:
*We will have library check-out this Wednesday.
*We will have a counselor lesson this Thursday.
*Conferences are Monday 10/24, Tuesday 10/25, and Thursday 10/27.
*No School Thursday 10/27 and Friday 10/28.