Week 24

Good afternoon! I'm posting today because I'm about to head out to sunny California for the weekend! I'll be running a half marathon at Huntington Beach, and I can't wait to see the water. :) Next week is a four day week, followed by a four day weekend. On Tuesday, we will take class pictures, so please dress nicely and comb hair! Thursday is Great Hearts Day, and we will focus on the virtue of friendship. Thank you to those of you who signed up to bring supplies. It will be a fun day! Here's what we have coming up:

Literature: We will read chapters 10-13 of Cricket. Vocabulary words we will encounter are: limbered, compositions, ovation, oblige, castanets, smoldering, indignantly, salvage, melancholy, accompanist, suspicious, recital, encores, and entomologists. Please start reading the new chapter book at home and working on the mystery book report (either the board game or pizza) - due Feb. 29th!

Spalding: We will only have 21 words this week, due to not having school on Friday. Test will be on Thursday!

Monday: sudden, instead, throw, threw, personal, everything, rate, chief, perfect, second

Tuesday: slide, farther, duty, intend, company, quite, quit, quiet, none, knew, know

Writing: narration, copy work, and dictation exercises from The Hare That Ran Away; friendship writing

Grammar: editing, classifying, and unscrambling sentences

Math: We will work on multiples of 10, fact families, and introduce division with remainders! Unit 8.3 Test (multiplication and division of 10) will be on Thursday!

History: America at War! (War of 1812) - We will identify problems that America faced early on. We will also discuss how Dolley Madison showed courage and how we got our national anthem. 

Science: We will explain the importance of eating a balanced diet and classify foods as being healthy or unhealthy!

Idiom: "Two heads are better than one."

Poem: We will recite Smart by Shel Silverstein this week. The new poem is going home on Monday - it is the Preamble! Since it is fairly short, there will be two weeks to practice it. 

Miscellaneous: Healthy Snack day was moved from this Thursday to Feb. 18th. :)

Have a GREAT weekend!