Week 14

Good evening! I hope everyone has had another great weekend! A couple of quick notes: on Wednesday is our Winter Concert. Attendance is mandatory for this - it will be part of their music grade. :) It will be at the Higley Center for Performing Arts (4132 E. Pecos Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85295), and the concert will begin promptly at 5:30 pm.

We are not supposed to give homework on Wednesday, so the Spalding homework will be optional. We will still practice them in class and again on Thursday, so the test on Friday will cover all 28 words.

Also, we have our Greek play audition tomorrow (Monday) and Tuesday during recess. :)

Here is what we have coming up this week:

Literature: We will continue reading Boxcar Children (chapters 9 and 10) in reading groups and discussing key ideas.

Spalding: 28 new words this week (Test on Friday!). Please practice phonograms 1-70 as well, as we will do a graded WPR next week!

New words: inform, both, heart, month, children, child, build, built, understand, follow, charge, member, case, while, also, return, office, great, Miss, miss, who, died, die, changing, change, few, pleasant, please.

Writing: narration, copy work, and dictation exercises from "Pilgrim's Progress"

Grammar: We will review all the parts of speech that we've learned so far (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) and create sentence blueprints.

Typing: We will try to begin typing this week!! We will work on our typing skills once a week, but it can be practiced at home as well. More details to come... :)

Math: We will review everything up to this point on Monday, and then test on Tuesday. Then we are jumping into multiplication! We will be creating arrays and practicing our skip counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, and 5's.

History: I am excited to say that we are starting our Ancient Greece unit! We will begin with the geography of Greece and then learn about important Greek gods and goddesses.

Science: We are going to be studying insects this week and getting creative, by designing our own!

Poem: We will finish up poetry recitations since we all didn't recite last week. New poem: The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore - Note: This is a very long poem, so we are only asking that each student memorize one stanza to recite the week of December 14th. Pick your favorite!

Idiom: "Practice what you preach."

I can't wait to see all of you on Wednesday at the concert. Have a great week!