Week of 11/26

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and enjoyed the time off with your family and friends. Here are your reminders for the week:

- We are starting Unit 3 in reading this week. There will now be 12 Magic Words instead of 10. We will also being learning long vowel patterns. Please review with your child at home.

- Test folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please sign and return on Wednesday.

- If you would like to be a Mystery Reader on Thursday, 12/13 please let me know!


Have a great week!
Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 151

practice Magic Words

Math: page 34

Tuesday

Reading: page 150

practice Magic Words

Math: page 35

Wednesday

Reading: page 152

practice Magic Words

Math: page 36

Thursday

Reading: page 153

Math: page 37

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We start Chapter 13 this week and learn about the season of Advent.

Reading
Story: "At Home in the Ocean"
Target Skill: Author's Purpose (Persuade, inform, entertain)
Phonics Skill: Long A, digraph -th, endings (ed, ing, s, es)
Grammar: Proper Nouns
Magic Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, here, me, my, who
Spelling Words: that, them, then, with, this, bath, seven, and, here, she

Math

We will continue our unit on subtraction this week. We will practice it on a number line and also with 10 frames. 

Week of 11/12

Dear Parents,

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to meet with me at conferences. Communication between the teacher and parents is crucial to the success of your child and I appreciate you giving up your time :).
The kids have already grown so much since September and it is exciting to see their reading skills develop and grow. We will start learning long vowel patterns when we return from Thanksgiving break. Here are your reminders for the last full week before Thanksgiving break:

- Test folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please sign and return on Wednesday.

- Our Monthly Mass for November will be on Wednesday at 9:00 am. All are welcome!

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 4 on Thursday. A study guide will be sent home today.

- There will be a Reading test and a Spelling test on Friday.

- We will only have school on Monday and Tuesday of next week :)

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday
Religion: review for test

Reading: page 140

practice Magic Words

Math: page 31

Tuesday
Religion: review for test

Reading: page 143

practice Magic Words

Math: page 32

Wednesday
Religion: review for test tomorrow

Reading: page 145

practice Magic Words

Math: page 33

Thursday

Reading: review story for test tomorrow
study for spelling test tomorrow

Math: play First in Math for 15 minutes

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish up Chapter 4 and have a test on Thursday.

Reading

Story: "A Cupcake Party"

Target Skill: Story Structure (characters, setting, plot)

Phonics Skill: Short u sound and final blends -mp -nt, -nd, -st, -sk

Grammar: using a, an and the. Synonyms and antonyms

Magic Words: eat, give, one, put, small, take, sing, all does, they

Spelling Words: sun, bus, but, run, give, take, does, they, dust, jump

Math
This week we will start our subtraction unit. We will learn that subtracting means to "take away." We will learn how to write number sentences and use pictures to help us solve problems. We will also use number lines and ten frames to help us solve problems.