Monday, September 28, 2015

Hadden's Happenings

Reminders:
Tuesday, September 29
All day
 Individual Student Photos
Wednesday, October 7
All day
 International Bike and Walk to School Day
Monday, October 12
All day
 No School/Columbus Day
Thursday, October 15
6:00pm
 Science Night
Thursday, October 22
7:45am
 Coffee and Conversation
Saturday, October 24
4:00pm
 Harvest Festival

Language Arts:

Writing
·         Spelling/Voc words: league, polish, style, pronounce, stands, fans, score, slammed
·         Complete teaching and practicing skills from last week
  • Continue writing our personal narrative
  • Focus on learning how to show and not just tell with our words to describe the small moment
  • Add sensory details
  • How to end a personal narrative
  • Grammar: plural/singular nouns
Reading
  •  Read Roberto Clemente from our Journey’s book
  • Reading Strategy: Cause/Effect
  • Reading and responding to leveled readers
  • Continue BAS testing 
The yellow packet will go home with comprehension questions to answer for the story we are reading. These packets are due back to school on Friday and will count as a homework grade. Parents, please be sure to check over your child's work and sign the cover page.  In addition to the weekly story, an individual book related to the theme will be assigned to your child, in class, based on his/her reading level.  

Social Studies
  • Continue our unit of citizenship
  • Research a historical figure
  • Reflection on what citizenship means to me


Math

  • Complete rounding/estimating (place value)
  • Unit 3 Math Test
  • Begin unit on multiplication: Focus on 2’s and 4’s