Week of 12/9/13

Greetings Parents and Students,

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  We have officially 10 school days until Winter Break and I encourage all my students come rested and ready to go each day.  We have some wonderful activities planned for our Winter Party as well, so Parents please stay tuned to the Blog for updated information I plan on posting this week.  Also, if any parents are feeling generous we are in desperate need of santitizing wipes, extra pencils, playdough, dry erase and regular markers for the classroom.  Your generosity is most appreciated.  Now let's get down to business!

What are we learning this week?

Reading-
This week we will be focusing on Cause and Effect relationships within a Fiction and Nonfiction Texts. Our phonics skill will be words with Schwa sound and Compound Words. Please remember to have your child read 20-30 minutes nightly and complete Spelling Choice Boards by Friday.  Also please remind your child that Literacy Centers/Station in class are worth 40% of their grade.  This is a time to be used productively and wisely!  Thanks for your support Parents?

Spelling Words for Week of 12/9/13

On-Level Words:
cannot, pancake, maybe, baseball, playground, someone, myself, classroom, sunshine, outside, upon, nothing

Challenge Words:
compassionate, patience, syllable, Sequoyah, communicate, property, texture, solid, matter, entertain, persuade.

Writing/Language Arts-
The students will continue creating "All About" books on their favorite topics and our grammar skill will be present tense verbs. The kids have been working hard on their All About Books! 

Social Studies-
We will continue our Unit on Native Georgians and we will once again focus on Sequoyah this week.  The children will be creating their very own alphabet as Sequoyah created his and it should be a fun week of activities!