Feliz Navidad!

We dressed up in mustaches and sombreros to sing

Feliz Navidad during the school sing along Wednesday

morning.

Some of the kids got really creative while making

their mustaches!

Santa Clause popped into our class later on that day

to bring us a little holiday cheer and a candy cane!

December 21-23

This week we only have school Monday-Wednesday! Remember that Wednesday is a short day too!!
On Monday we have a math review on chapter 4 and the chapter 4 test is on Tuesday! Remember to save your chapter homework to study until after the test. If students review those homework pages they should do very well.
Students are finishing their persuasive letters to Santa this week so look forward to reading those on Wednesday!
Have a Merry Christmas! Remember, "Tis the Season to Be Jolly!" Do something to make someone else happy!
I love you all!

Christmas Art

Make a Smilebox slideshow

December 14-18

Important Things to Know

On Friday we have a test on Magnetism and Electricity. If students know the study guides they will do very well on the test. They also have a vocabulary test on Electricity.

We will not be doing any spelling this week.

We are continuing division in math, commas in language, and persuasive papers in writing.

Colonial Days

December 7-11

Friday we have a spelling test on the following words:

surrounded, skiing, swimming, loving, studied, traveling, carried, trading, bragged, worried, beginning, excited, finished, laughed, quickest, weaker, tiniest, and lonelier

We also have a vocabulary quiz. Students have a study guide that they can take home.

Book reports are due Friday!

November 30-December 4

Important News

Thursday: Chapter 3 Math Test (Make sure to study your past assignments)
Friday: Spelling Test and Colonial Days

Students need to bring a tin can with holes punched in the sides for Colonial Days on Friday. We need all the parent volunteers we can get! If you are interested write that in your child's planner.

On Wednesday we are starting a new science unit on Magnetism and Electricity!! It will be a lot of fun!

November 16-20

This week we are continuing our study of the English colonies in social studies.

Tuesday November 17 there is a test on the Early English Colonies. Make sure your students study for this using their yellow study guides.

On Friday there is a spelling test and a map test in social studies. Students will be making this map Monday and Tuesday and then will have two days to study and memorize it.

Students will begin reading their books for their first book report. Students can choose any book to read as long as it has at least 100 pages. They will have two weeks to read it and almost 2 weeks to do the book report. More information will come at the end of this week.

There is a food drive and so if you have any food items that you are able to donate, send them with your child this week!

What is going on November 9-13

We are still studying Early Colonization in social studies.
We are studying division in math. Remember to save all unit 3 math worksheets until your child has taken the unit 3 test.
On Friday there is a spelling test on the following words: spoil, choice, avoid, moisture, oyster, royal, employ, annoy, ground, house, sprout, mountain, allow, ourselves, somehow, ounce, amount, and boundary. Bonus words include: indentured servants, Spain, colony, and Chesapeake Bay.
If students turn in all of their homework throughout the week they receive fake money to use in fun activities throughout the year.

What's happening this week:

1. We are beginning a new Social Studies unit on the Early Colonies.

2. Parent Teacher Conference is Wednesday from 4:30-8pm. and Thursday from 3:30-7pm.

3. There is a spelling test on Thursday. The spelling words they will be tested on are: gloomy, school, choose, loose, route, clue, truth, duty, ruin, Tuesday, usually, threw, understood, neighborhood, rookie, could, should, and bulletin.

4. We are starting a unit on division in math.

5. We are writing persuasive papers that students will eventually have to present in class.

Dimple Dell Field Trip

Halloween Party!

Things you can do this week to help your child:

1. Help them study for their Physical Features science test. Students will be bringing home their science packet with a study guide. If they study and know the answers on the study guide, they will be successful on the test!

2. Look over chapter 2 corrected math assignments and help them review problems they had trouble with. Remember that students can always correct their mistakes and turn assignments in again for full points. In the future it would be a good idea for students to save their chapter assignments until after the test.

3. Quiz your child on their vocabulary words each night to help them prepare for the test on Thursday.

Okay it is finally time for me to begin updating the blog each week!

Upcoming events in our classroom

Tuesday: Tool Day 9-10:30a.m./Home Science Experiments Packet Due

Wednesday: Chapter 2 Math Test and Physical Features Test

Thursday: Halloween Parade and Party/Explorers Vocabulary Test

Friday: No School

Here are the Explorer vocabulary words:

1. hostile

2. continent

3. native

4. uncharted

5. wail

6. explorer

7. port

8. respect

9. anchor

10. lances

11. coast

12. previous