WEEK OF: October 7th - 11th, 2013

 

* In Spelling, our words include the vowel sounds that you hear in out and toy.  Our list words are: proud, shower, hour, amount, voyage, choice, avoid, thousand, prowl, employ, bounce, poison, annoy, appoint, broil, however, mountain, coward, turmoil, and chowder. Our final test will be on Tuesday 10/8/13. You can practice your list words at the following Spelling City link: http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=305481

* In Grammar, we are focusing on “Compound Sentences”. A compound sentence contains two sentences joined by a comma and a word such as and, but, or or. The two sentences that are joined make sense together. We will have a Grammar quiz on Wednesday 10/9/13.

 

* In Reading, we have started our new story “My Rows and Piles of Coins”.  In our story, our main character Saruni helps his mother sell her goods at the market every Saturday. After each day of sales, she gives him a few coins to spend on anything he wants. But Saruni has a dream of helping his mother by buying a bicycle to take her goods to market. He saves his coins each week while he learns to ride a bicycle. He saves for months, and, with the help of his mother and father, finally gets his bike. As soon as he has it, he comes up with a new plan to help her. Our Reading Strategies this week are Character and Setting.  You can listen to our story at the following link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30012488/READING%20STORIES/UNIT%201%20STORIES/My%20Rows%20and%20Piles%20of%20Coins.mp3

 

 

* In Math, we will have a Topic 2 test on Thursday 10/10. It will cover Lessons 2-1 to 2-9. We will review before the test and the students will bring home a review guide so they can prepare for the test. The review guide will come home Wednesday.  

 

* In Science, we continue to work on Investigation 2 (Hot and Cold) in our unit on Water.

 

 

Monday: (Day 4 Art)

Spelling – review for test on Tuesday

Grammar – Review Compound Sentences ~ Quiz Wed.  

Math – Lesson 2.7 HW and fact practice wkst (quiz Friday) ; Test Friday on Topic 2

Reading – Review vocabulary for quiz Thursday and read story “My Rows and Piles of Coins” – test Friday. .

 

Tuesday: (Day 5 Music)

Spelling – Test today - no homework

Grammar – Review new topic “Compound Sentences” – Quiz Wed.

Math – Lesson 2.8 HW and fact practice wkst. (quiz Fri); Test Friday of Topic 2

Reading – Review vocabulary for quiz Thursday and read story “My Rows and Piles of Coins” – test Friday. .

 

Wednesday: (Day 1 Computers)

Grammar – Quiz Today – no homework

Math – Lesson 2.9 HW and fact practice wkst. (quiz Fri); Test Friday of Topic 2

Reading – Review vocabulary for quiz Thursday and read story “My Rows and Piles of Coins” – test Friday. .

 

 

Thursday:  (Day 2 Library)

Math –Lesson 298 HW and fact practice wkst. (quiz Fri); Test Friday of Topic 2

Reading – Review vocabulary for quiz Thursday and read story “My Rows and Piles of Coins” – test Friday. .

 

 

Friday:

***Please remember to sign any papers marked “sign and Return” in Friday folders and return folder on Monday.