A huge thank you to parents for donating the pizza money at the beginning of the year and for parents who send in sides and desserts. The kids really enjoyed our pizza party!
Math Tests
The kids rocked their math review yesterday so we moved up our math test to today. We will be copying some of their explanations from the review and then will send them home next week. We will share the tests with you at conferences next week. If we already met with you, we will send it home on Monday. If it is sent home, please let us know that you have seen it (either via email or signing and returning it).
Progress Reports
Progress reports are coming home today. You do not need to sign and return them. Please look over them with your student. We tried to give very detailed comments about where your student is at right now.
Important Upcoming Events
- Veteran's Day Assembly: Monday, November 11
- Our assembly is at 8:30 a.m.
- Students are encouraged to wear red, white and blue.
- Book Fair
- The book fair is next week in the library.
- The students will be making wish lists on Monday. They will be available in the library at the book fair.
- Conferences
- We have enjoyed meeting with everyone we have met with so far and are excited to meet with more families next week.
- Thank you for taking the time to meet with us to discuss your student's progress. We truly feel that we are all a team for your student!
- Just a reminder, we will ask you to set a goal for your student when you come in for conferences. This can be an academic or behavior goal.
- No School: Friday, November 15 (Parent Teacher Conferences)
- TRYPS Play: Tuesday, November 19
- We will be going to see Frozen, Jr. at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 19.
- Thank you to PTA for providing the funding for the tickets and the transportation to the play.
- We will be eating lunch a bit later than normal this day so we have time to get back from the play. We will try to eat snack before we leave for the play.
- Thanksgiving Break: Wednesday, November 27-Friday, November 29
Math
- We will be setting goals and reflecting on goals on Monday.
- We will start Unit 4 on Tuesday. This unit covers time, place value and measurement.
- Our lessons next week will focus on telling time to the nearest 5 minutes and also determining if something is A.M. or P.M.
- Time can be a difficult concept for students, especially since many clocks are digital these days. Please practice telling time with your students at home.
Reading
- We will continue our study of fables next week.
- This week we learned the 3 main characteristics of a fable are they are made-up, often involve animals (who at times take on characteristics of a human) and teach a lesson.
- This week we read "Fox and Crane," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "Wolf! Wolf!" The students also read fables on Epic. They made some in depth connections between the different stories. They were able to make text-to-text connections between all 3 stories that we read.
Grammar
- We will continue learning about types of nouns next week. Students will learn about irregular plural nouns.
- We will also review proper, common and collective nouns.
Social Studies
- This week, we focused on identifying clothing, adult jobs and kid chores that we currently have. Next week, we will compare and contrast our current lives to those of colonial times.
Fundations
- We will continue working on suffixes and practicing these suffixes through dictation.
- We will also work on prefixes and identifying how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning.
- Our trick words are always, often, once, look, they're.
Have a fabulous weekend!
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