January 27 - 31, 2014

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS!

**Announced today!  Car riders will dismiss at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, and we will not have school on Wednesday, January 29th due to weather.


Parents!  Please remember us as you are shopping.  We need notebook paper and pencils.  We prefer NO "Dixon" pencils as the lead breaks easily.  Thank you for helping our class!


   ~~~INFORMATION FOR JANUARY~~~

 
Yearbook Sales--$24.00--Begin January 29

 



*STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Orenthal

*READING/SPELLING   We are learning how to find the theme and plot of a story.

Story for this week is, "I Like Where I Am."  Reading Test will be on Thursday (THIS MAY CHANGE DUE TO WEATHER....)

Spelling:  Words with "oi" and "oy".  Spelling Test will be on Friday.   

**IMPORTANT SPELLING INFORMATION:  Your child had received a green paper with ALL spelling words and  directions for dictation practice for this quarter.  This sheet replaces the old Spelling list we kept in the folder pocket.  Please do NOT take this out of the Apple Binder :)
  
  
READ your AR book at home with an adult every night! Some students are not taking their AR books home at night even when reminded....

**LANGUAGE/HANDWRITING   Students are continuing to write expanded sentences and will begin studying how to use commas and capitalization in the heading and closing of a letter.   Test will be on Friday.

 

**MATH   We are learning about counting money amounts up to $5.00 and telling time.  You certainly may begin practicing by counting money at home.  Take a handful of coins, put them in order from greatest to least, then "add on" to find the total amount.  Also practice telling time using an analog clock (with hands).  We will tell time to the nearest half hour and quarter hour first.

**SOCIAL SCIENCE
We are studying maps and globes, and will identify continents this week.