Mrs. Smith's Class Blog

Oct. 10th-Oct. 11th:

Memory: No Memory due this week

* Belize Bible Count for our class= 14

Spelling: Test Tuesday

Every quarter students will have a list of 25 High Frequency Words that they are expected to recognize by sight and spell properly. We will hit these words hard this week but I encourage your child to study them at home over the weekend.

High Frequency Word List #1

over, new, sound, take, only, little, work, know, place, years, live, me, back, give, most, very, after, thing, our, just, name, good, sentence, man, think

Grammar: Test Tuesday

Writing commas in dates

Reading:
We will continue to identify the setting, but we will also begin to discuss sequencing, retell, and visualization of short passages.

Math: No math homework this week

We will review first quarter math concepts with math centers.

Some key focus areas: time, money, temperature, shapes, and fractions.

Social Studies/Science:

We will continue to finish up Ch. 5 in our Science book.

Guiding questions: What is the Earth?

Specific focus: What is the difference between freshwater and saltwater?

Writing:

Writing lists

Important Information/Reminders:

Parent-teacher conference slips are in Friday folders. I did my best to accommodate special requests. Please let me know if you will attend by signing the form and sending it back to school as soon as possible.

No School 10/12/16-10/14/16

Zion's teachers will be traveling to Grand Rapids to attend a teaching conference.

Field trip permission slips are in Friday folders. Please sign and return by 10/17/16. Students will need to wear their red Zion t-shirts and bring a cold lunch that day (no peanut butter please). We will eat in our classroom when we return. A special thanks to our chaperones: Michelle M., Kari M., Abbey W., and Joe L.

We will have our Harvest party the afternoon we return from the Art Museum.

End of First Quarter is 10/21/16

Reflecting on our week:

Students enjoyed flying across America as we got a bird's eye view of landforms!