November 29, 2010

Ok....everyone stuffed? Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We sure did. I am so thankful for my family.

Our Holiday Concert is Thursday, Dec. 2. Please have your child in the classroom by 5:40. The concert begins at 6:00. They may wear regular clothing in Christmas colors.

Some students have chess club permisison slips. They are due Wednesday, Dec. 1.


Test Schedule:

Tuesday, Language friendly letter
Friday, Math Chapter 11, Probability
Friday, Spelling
Friday, Reading, "Two Lands One Heart"

Vocabulary words for story: interpreter, overwhelm, hysterically, equivalent, appetizing, occasionly, and irrigation.

Spelling List:

tomato
sword
total
reveal
tomatoes
resign
arrive
often
sleeve
century
prisoner
improve
particular
soldier
sum
cent
summary
assist
supply
release
mention
difference
theater
motion
improvement

November 15, 2010

Wednesday, progress reports go home. Parents, please check with your child to sign and return them.

Test Schedule:

Tuesday
Language, Verbs

Friday
Math Chapter 10
Reading "Cricket in Times Square"
Vocabulary words for story: acquaintance, scrounging, eavesdropping, wistfully, sympathetically, logical, and excitable.
Spelling

Spelling List:

flew
hurry
gigantic
piano
excitement
forgotten
fly
excite
pianos
pickles
lawyer
know
knowledge
flies
paragraph
guide
patient
giant
pianist
pickle
hurried
exciting
patience
forgot
hurrying

November 8, 2010

Scholastic book orders are still being accepted on line through November 10. Go to scholasticbooks.com to order. Our class activation code is GXB6Q. All orders will be delivered to our classroom.

No school Thursday, November 11.

Test schedule:

Tuesday AZ History, Chapters 1 and 2
Wednesday Reading "Loser"
Friday Spelling
Friday Reading "Stealing Home"
Vocab: pastimes, bicker, grudge, irritably, tutor, impose, glumly, disposition

Spelling List:

beyond
interest
advise
collar
fierce
compare
enemy
example
cocoa
eager
controlled
American
broke
Christ
bargain
debts
disaster
America
comparison
beneath
break
control
advice
Christmas
broken