October 18-22, 2010

I can't express to you how much I enjoyed our time together on Friday. You are all such a wonderful blessing and encouragement to me -- just like your children. Please see our plans for the week below! I hope you have a wonderful week!

Reading - This week we are reading "Trickster Tales." We will learn about the genre and practice the comprehension skills of predicting, inferring, and visualizing.

Spelling - Unit 11; Our extra words are erosion and weathering. The words have now been added to spellingcity.com. Our test will be Thursday as usual (all in cursive).

Language - We are writing our very own class book to be published!!! Look for details to come home soon! We are also continuing our study of nouns. This week we will focus on plural nouns and when to add -s or -es.

Bible - Proverbs 17:17 will be written in class Friday. We will look at beautiful examples of loyalty and friendship as we read about Ruth with Naomi and also David with Jonathan.

Social Studies - Test Tuesday on Chapter 4; Begin Ch. 5 "Community Environments"

Science - Chapter 7 Lessons 1 and 2 

Math - Test Wednesday on Time; Continue to practice ixl skills: O.1, O.2, O.3, O.4, O.8; Thursday and Friday will be review focusing mainly on addition and subtraction skills. Next week we will begin multiplication!!!