Week 9 (Nov. 2-6)

Reminders:
*Our virtue for the month is GRATITUDE.  Each Monday, we celebrate "Moral Focus Monday" with lessons devoted to our school virtue.  Vanderbilt will also be collecting food for those in need in our area over the coming weeks. 
*Spelling is now a part of our weekly routine.  Words are introduced each Monday and the students are tested on Fridays.  Please take time to review these ten words throughout the week for mastery.
*Agendas and Take-Home Folders should go home and back each day. Please sign daily. 

*Beginning Quarter 2 (November 10) we will no longer have a weekly homework packet.  Administration has asked our classroom to pilot a "no homework" option.  Therefore, I will give suggestions to parents that are looking for home activities, but they are not mandatory.  I do however, feel strongly in reading daily.   I truly believe that the more kids read (or are read to), the better readers they become.  Exposure to print, story elements, and spelling patterns are all so important at this level and help to create a love of reading and learning.  Please take time throughout the week to read with your child.  If your child is an independent reader, they may want to journal about what they are reading or discuss it with a family member to gain a deeper understanding. 

Here are some potential learning activities to replace homework time if you so choose:
1. mobymax.com (each student already has their own login to use this site to practice any subject area, please let me know if you need another login)
2. MAP Math/MAP Reading (these sites have activities and games geared to student individual RIT levels- I will share these at conferences in a couple weeks)
3. Spelling Practice (chalk, finger paint, shaving cream, computer practice, creative sentences using words...)
4. Visit a library and check out some new books
5. Read!  :)

Nov. 2-6 is the final week of the marking period, so our last Weekly homework packets will go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning Nov. 6.
*Big THANKS to Amber Shepard for copying for our classroom!
*Thanks to all the volunteers that are helping to make our VIP/Harvest a success! 
*Friday, Nov. 6: End of Quarter 1.  We will begin a new marking period on Tuesday, November 10. 
*Monday, Nov. 9: No School (Staff PD Day)

MATH
Addition and Subtraction Review/Interim 1 Test

READING
Interim 1 Test

Spelling for Nov. 2-6: hot, hop, pot, pop, ox, lock, mop, got, rock, mom

Amazing Words: past, produce, danger, snuggle, powerful, present, transportation, serve, enormous

Characters, Setting, Plot: The Big Blue Ox

Predicates of a Sentence

SCIENCE
We are wrapping up our Earth's Surface topic.  Quarter 2 will focus on Social Studies objectives.