November 29 - December 3, 2010

Welcome back to school!  I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. 

**Please check back here during the week for news and updates :^)

Classroom Fundraiser continues.... Acrylic glasses: CES and SEHS Mustangs, Auburn and Alabama. Also includes Mustang car decal. $4.00 from each sale comes straight to our classroom!

**Holiday Project:  Due no later than Tuesday, December 7th. Students are bringing home a blue note that tells about this activity.  Please read directions carefully and help your child... Do not do the project for them, but help them find information and supplies.  Students will write a report and do a poster or shadowbox.  See directions sent home today, November 29th!


*Field Trip to see Peter Pan at Shakespeare Theater --- Tuesday, December 14
*Choir Concert --- 6:00--- Tuesday, December 14
*Christmas Vacation --- December 20, 2010 - January 3, 2011

*Good News Club --- Every Thursday afternoon

*Choir --- Wednesdays, from 7:30 to 8:00. Please be on time!

 

Student of the Week:  Erica Langford


**READING/SPELLING ---- Practice Spelling words every night. Absolutely NO capitalization unless it is at the beginning of a sentence. These are 5 points each. Dictation sentences must be written correctly, too.

Day One - Monday: Our new story is "Anansi Goes Fishing." Read story at home and practice spelling words.

Day Two - Tuesday: Read story at home and practice spelling at least 4 times each.

Day Three - Wednesday: Read story and prepare for Reading and Spelling tests

Day Four - Thursday:  Online and written selection test

Day Five  -  Friday:  Spelling and Language Tests

**LANGUAGE/HANDWRITING

We will learn how to use past, present, and future verbs.

**MATH

This week students are learning how to subtract one digit from a two-digit number and two digits from a two-digit number, with and without regrouping.

Students are now practicing subtraction facts each day. Daily timed drill will be 20 problems in one minute.

**Fact drill that counts for a grade this nine weeks is 100 addition facts, 5 minutes. Again, the best out of nine tests will be counted.

**SOCIAL SCIENCE

Students will learn about different holidays and customs in our country.  Holiday projects will be presented on Tuesday, December 7th.  Each project will include a short written report along with a poster or shadowbox.  Information will come home in apple binders today!