Weekly Update: November 12th-16th

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Hi Parents,

I hope you have been able to enjoy the wonderful weather this past week. I am looking forward to this coming week, being able to spend some quality time with my family. We will be heading up to Northeast Iowa to my parent's home in the big town of Garnavillo, Iowa. The boys love running around with their cousins and don't seem to stop moving from the time we get there. I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving break and some special time with your family.

Language Arts:

This past week students read the realistic text, The Science Fair. Students practiced the comprehensions skills of determining the story structure; naming the setting, characters, and plot of the story. They also practiced the comprehension strategy of visualizing, using text details to create a clear picture of what is happening in the story in their mind.

Grammar and Writing: Students worked on identifying more proper nouns within sentences. We reinforced that proper nouns always have a capital letter and name a specific person, place, or thing.

Common nouns- crayons, city, school, girl

Proper nouns- Crayola, Iowa City, Lemme Elementary, Grace

Spelling: This past weeks' spelling words were composed of homophones. Students not only had to be able to spell the words correctly, but also be able to use the context of the a sentence to understand the meaning of the spelling word. Please sign your child's spelling test on Monday and return it with your child on Tuesday.

Math: Students will be taking their Unit 4 Progress Check on Monday, November 19th. We have spent this past week going over multiplication and division and using a multiplication/division diagram to help organize the numbers from the word problems and solve them. Students should have brought home their review sheet on Friday. We went over the answers together as a class. I also gave them another review sheet to complete in class on Friday, they may have brought this home as well. Please be aware of circled problems as those were the ones that they missed.

I mentioned sending home math facts sheets in a previous email, but our copier was not making double sided copies. I wanted to create a packet so you didn't have loose papers everywhere so I promise I will work on getting these to you, let's hope the copier is fixed soon. I also tried to attach them here to my blog, but it doesn't seem to like PDF's so I will try to send a couple via email. I just am worried about the amount of space they will take up on your email so I will send a couple at a time. You may want to open and save them, then deleted them from your email.

Social Studies: This week students reviewed cardinal directions; north, south, east, and west. We also discussed intermediate directions; northeast, southwest, northwest, and southeast. We had fun singing a song and facing the direction the song told us to. Lastly, we located and labeled Iowa and Iowa City on a map.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving Break!