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Monday, October 27, 2014

Oct. 27-31

This week is RED RIBBON WEEK!! We will have dress up days each day. Please look at your newsletter daily to see what your child needs to wear.


This week we are reading The Bremen Town Musicians. We will practice words with inflected endings/plurals. Our spelling skill is plurals (change y to i, add s, add es). We will continue with plural nouns in Grammar.

We will finish up chapter 3 in math this week. We will test on chapter 3 on Thursday.

Spelling Words:
baby
babies
story
stories
lunch
lunches
switch
switches
note
notes
tune
tunes

High Frequency Words:
bought
probably
scared
shall
sign
people
pleasant


Upcoming Events:

Oct. 27-31: Red Ribbon Week

Mon- Red day, Tue- Camo day, Wed- Sunglasses
Thurs- Favorite Team T-shirt, Fri- Super Hero  Day

Oct. 31: School is out at 1:00.
Nov. 11: Veteran’s Day No School

Monday, October 20, 2014

Oct. 20-24

Congratulations Aggies for the win on Homecoming! Whoo Hoo!!

This week we will learning all about those creepy, crawly, spiders. We will read about them during reading and write about them in writing. We will write a report (expository) writing about different kinds of spiders. This week is going to be jam packed with the creepy, crawly arachnids! 

Our phonics skill is er, ir, and ur (the er triplets!). We will have spelling words and phonics practice on this skill. 

Our comprehension skill is Facts and details. We will also learn about opinions. 

In math we will continue in chapter 3!

Spelling Words:
purse
dirt
person
curl
curb
birth
nurse
turtle
turn
skirt
serve
her

Vocabulary Words:
toward, whole, word
enough, above, ago

Upcoming Events:

October 24: Pumpkin Character Due
October 27-31: Red Ribbon Week

Mon- Red day, Tue- Camo day, Wed- Sunglasses
Thurs- Favorite Team T-shirt, Fri- Super Hero Day

October 31: School is out at 1:00. 

Monday, October 6, 2014

Oct. 6-10

This week we are reading "Abraham Lincoln". We will learn about Author's Purpose and contractions (can't, I'm). Our grammar skill will be Proper Nouns (special names, begins with capital letters). We will begin chapter 3 in Math (basic addition and subtraction).

Spelling:
hadn't
it's
she's
aren't
he's
I'm
isn't
I'll
didn't
who's
can't
haven't

Vocabulary Words:
worst
second
laugh
great
you're
either
certainly

Upcoming Events:
Oct. 13 and 14- No School= Fall Break
Oct. 23- Make-Up picture day
Oct. 24- Pumpkin Character Project due
Oct. 31- School is out at 1:00 (Albertville vs. Guntersville Game)