Week of October 26th

Reading / LA / Spelling: This week we are back to a story week. We will be reading The Keeping Quilt. We will be learning about cultures and traditions. Practice your vocabulary words by playing the memory game with your vocabulary cards. Vocabulary test will be Thursday. Spelling activities for this week are to write the words three times each and complete a word search. Both are due Wednesday. We will continue to work on our personal narratives through writer's workshop. We are also going to be learning about homophones and cause and effect.
Theme 1 test will be sent home this week. It is separated into three grades: one for LA, spelling, and reading. Please practice and review these concepts with your child.
Math: We are starting chapter 2 in Math class. It deals with the associative, commutative, and identity property. We will also be practicing addition. We will continue to complete our problem of the day and fast math. You should continue to practice your addition facts!
Science: We have just completed thinning and transplanting our plants and will continue to observe the life cycle through growing buds and flowers. We will learn about the parts of a flower and about honey bees. We will learn about the three types of bees and their jobs. We will also learn about cross pollination and use dead honey bees to help pollinate our plants.
Social Studies: We are doing to continue to work on Chapter 2 in Social studies. This will include more map skills dealing with land forms. We are going to begin creating a treasure map that includes all of the map skills that have been learned so far.
This week: Friday is the Halloween party. We are still in need of toilet paper rolls. Please send in another roll if you have extra around home!
We will have a parade before the party for 3ds and 4th grade students and teachers only. This will give the students a chance to share their costumes with their friends. We then will head to our rooms for our classroom parties. Thank you to all parents who have been helping with the planning of our party. We are looking forward to having a great time!