I hope you enjoyed your weekend. It won't be too much longer until our wonderful Arizona weather kicks in!
For those of you who made it to the Singapore Math/ Spalding Night, I hope it was a benefit to you and helped answer any questions you may have had.
Important Date this week:
- Love and Logic by Larry Kerby - Tuesday, September 12th from 6:30-8 (This event will benefit all families.)
In ELA - Your child will recite "Afternoon on a Hill" on Wednesday. Adverbs will be introduced and we will work on classifying and diagramming sentences with these in them. As we finish up Pollyanna this week, we will use these final chapters to practice a summary, dictation, and character development. Our next literature book is Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis. I've placed the picture of the cover of the book we use in the margin. Please make sure your child brings this book in on Tuesday, September 19th. We continue to have our Spalding and phonogram tests on Fridays. The students are doing a good job on these. 20 people got 100% on the last test!
In math this week, we will continue to explore multiplication and division as well as working on word problems that involve all four operations. We will be starting a math facts program called Rocket Math this week. Rocket Math uses timed tests to help students improve their math fact fluency. We will practice facts in class, and it would be beneficial for your student to spend a few minutes a day reviewing multiplication facts as well. Please let me know if you have any questions about this program as we begin to implement it this week!
We continue in geology with discussions of convection currents and different types of plate boundaries. The study guide for the first assessment will go out this week. The assessment will be the following week.
In History this week we will finish us our study of world mountain ranges before turning our attention to the Geography of Europe. We will examine the major rivers, mountains, and countries of Europe. Finally, we will study fall of Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
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Your child will bring home some graded work this week, please make sure you are looking for it in their take home folder. Also make sure you are checking their agenda each night. If there is missing work, I try and write it in there.
**Math Facts, Math Facts, Math Facts**
Please take just 5-10 minutes a day to drill your child on math facts (addition and subtraction, as well as, multiplication and division). Let's make it a goal together, that they will have these down by the time they move on to 5th grade.
Thank you!
Mrs. Gore
