Week of Dec 8-12

Dear Parents, I apologize for my blogging absence. I was out yesterday dealing with a very persistent cough. But I am back today armed with an inhaler and some prescription cough medicine to help me sleep at night. Now if I could just figure out how to keep Olive asleep at night...?
Anyway, thanks to those of you who have contributed to the Taste the Northeast party we are having tomorrow. Please send your kiddos to school at least a little hungry.
Reading - We are continuing with lessons on compare and contrast this week. Students will have mini-lessons first thing in the morning, and then continue working on these skills in their Guided Reading lessons as well as at their literacy stations.
Math - In my math class we are finishing up our unit on Place Value and will soon move on to unit 7 on Patterns in Multiplication.
Social Studies - We are finishing up the Northeast Region this week with a test and then a small party. (See Taste of Northeast Blog entry)
Spelling - We will have one last list this week before break. Their test will be this week on Wednesday and then I will give the new list the same day. Here are the words for next week.
wiped
covered
mapped
pleasing
slipped
putting
traveled
seeking
visiting
mixed
shipped
phoning
offered
smelling
hiking
checking
fainted
landed
becoming
wandering

Challenge
• amusing
• entertained
• admitted
• stunning
• starving

Tuesday's Homework - One more night to study for Social Studies test. (See above blog entry).

Wednesday's Homework - Study for the spelling test, which has been moved to tomorrow due to the social studies test.

Thursday's Homework - My math class has page 182 in the book for homework if they did not finish it in class. They are working on order of operations. If they are struggling with the assignment remind them of PEMDAS - Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

Friday's Homework - Homework for the weekend is to finish up any work they did not finish during the week at their Literacy Stations. Also they need to be studying for their spelling test.Also, students need to take their Windcatcher packets home and edit their spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors. Windcatcher packets are due Monday. In my math class, we had some difficulty with rounding larger numbers ( like rounding to the nearest ten and hundred thousand), as well as place value behind the decimal point. These are things you can be practicing and working on at home.

Thanks and have a great weekend!