I hope your week went well. We are back I the swing of things.

Please be diligent in checking in with your student and his or her homework. We’ve had too many missing assignments lately and this will affect his or her grades.

We have 30 words again in Spalding this week. Please keep reviewing those phonograms. We are learning about analogies and synonyms/antonyms in class with the goal of aiding our writing. We are also continuing with capitalization and punctuation rules in grammar.

There will be a math test on Friday. It will encompass multiplication and division and of course word problems. We started a math facts program called Rocket Math today and I’m hoping this will help solidify those facts. Knowing their math facts is integral for the children to build upon what they already know. Please review multiplication facts regularly with your child.

The students did a good job forming the layers of the Earth with their playdough. It was also a fun activity. Today we made and put together a puzzle that represented Pangaea and will aid our study of the Continental Drift Theory. We will continue to learn more about plates and layers this week.

We are enjoying Robin Hood. You may have noticed there is more vocabulary this time. This book has more terms that we are unfamiliar with so that’s the reason. We also wanted to give more practice using these words in sentences. We will have our first test on Robin Hood on Tuesday next week. A study guide will go home with them over the weekend.

Our Middle Ages study consists of learning about the feudal system and we’ve had some good discussions about it. Ask your child to explain this system to you. Later in the week we will discuss the role of a serf and what life was like in the city at this time. We will have a test on Chapters 6,7, 10 and 11 on Monday of next week. They have the study guide already and have been filling it out for each chapter.

The students have an opportunity to do a presentation/report on a topic in the Middle Ages. This is optional, for extra credit. It is to be a 2 minute presentation on a topic that I have approved. It will be due the week of Thanksgiving but if they are ready before that, they can present it sooner.

Wednesday will be the last day to bring in boxtops!!!

With cold and flu season upon us, we could use some more tissues and antibacterial wipes.

Please clear out the “take home” folder as well as the Language Arts and History folders. Pollyanna and meteorology should be taken out.

I hope you had a good break! I was able to go to Virginia and visit my parents and see my oldest son which was a blessing.

As we gear up for our next quarter, there are a few things the students will need. Please have them bring in their Robin Hood books and their playdough. Also with cold season upon us, if anyone can bring in tissues and/or antibacterial wipes, that would be much appreciated.

Even though it is a short week, we will still have a spelling and phonogram test on Friday. It will just have 10 words though. The students will also be memorizing 2 sentences that will help them know when to use “ear” for the sound “er”. There will be a quiz on those sentences on Monday.

In math, we will study estimation in problem solving. We will focus on division again this week. We continue to incorporate the model method of teaching into each lesson. Knowing their math facts is integral for the children to build upon what they already know. Please review multiplication facts regularly with your child.

We will start Geology this week in Science and will use the playdough for a hands-on demonstration about the layers of the Earth.

In literature we will begin Robin Hood. We will be able to integrate this with our continued study in the Middle Ages. I’ve also given the students an opportunity to do a presentation/report on a topic in the Middle Ages. This is optional, for extra credit. It is to be a 2 minute presentation on a topic that I have approved. It will be due the week of Thanksgiving but if they are ready before that, they can present it sooner.

***Remember Robin Hood and playdough : )***

We are collecting box tops!!!

Please clear out the “take home” folder as well as the Language Arts and History folders. Pollyanna and meteorology should be taken out.

We are gearing up for the final week of the first quarter. I’ve been so impressed with how we’ve grown together as a class and am looking forward to the next 9 weeks. I have set up a volunteerspot link for you to sign up for Parent/Teacher conferences. It’s http://vols.pt/oF8oS2 .

In Language Arts, the students seem to like diagramming sentences and are looking forward to more challenging ones. They also enjoy coming up with derivatives for our Latin root words.

We have a spelling and phonogram test on Friday.

In math, we will study estimation in problem solving. We will focus on division this week. We continue to incorporate the model method of teaching into each lesson. Knowing their math facts is integral for the children to build upon what they already know. Please review multiplication facts regularly with your child.

We will study the Scientific Method this week in Science using experiments to get some hands-on knowledge about what it means.

We finish up Pollyanna with a quiz on Friday on chapters 16-end. There have been some twists and turns and it’s been fun predicting what will happen. When we come back from break, we will begin Robin Hood. It will be sad to leave Pollyanna but exciting times are around the corner.

We have a quiz on Chapters 1-5 in History on Thursday. The students have been working on their study guide and should have it all filled out.

I have begun tutoring after school on Tuesdays from 3:45-4:45. If you are interested, you must sign up on sign up genius (the link is provided below) with the child’s name and the specific topic you would like him/her to be tutored in. This way we can prepare meaningful sessions with the child. This is not a homework session but a time where we can work individually or in small groups on a concept the student is struggling with.

We are collecting box tops!!!

Please clear out the “take home” folder as well as the Language Arts and History folders.