Week of October 25th-29th

A look at what we will be studying this week..........

• In Language Arts we will continue discussing nouns.  We will talk about using them in a series, and common and proper nouns.  We will also be comparing and contrasting the story of the Three Little Bears with a halloween version of The Three Little Bears.
• Exciting news!  We just received our new math books.  We will start working in the books this week.  We will be talking about "greater than" and "less than" and ordinal numbers.
• In Social Studies will be our unit on Thanksgiving.  We will start off with learning about the Native Americans.  We will have a quiz on Thursday over Pages 142-145 in the Social Studies book.  They will also need to study a "Pilgrim Story" handout.

Homework for the week..........

Spelling Words: These words have consonant blends.
slide, slips, dress, drop, skin, task, still, must, crisp, spell

Monday - No School
Tuesday - Daily Language Review (do Monday night and Tuesday night). Read for 10 minutes. Using the small journal use 5 of your spelling words in 5 sentences. Each sentence must be at least 8 words (or more) long.  Begin studying for Social Studies quiz on Thursday.  Use the "Pilgrim Story" and your Social Studies book pages 142-145. 
Wednesday - Daily Language Review and read for 15 minutes. Study for Social Studies quiz on Thursday.  Use the "Pilgrim Story" and your Social Studies book pages 142-145.  Math Homework Book pages 1 and 2.
Thursday - Daily Language Review and read for 15 minutes. Study Spelling words. Using your small journal write a paragraph about your halloween costume.  Cirle the nouns you used.
A Few Other Things.................

• Student's will get out of school at 11:15 on Monday, November 1st due to parent conferences.
• Parent confernce sign up sheet is available outside my door, please stop by and sign up for a time.  Conferences will be held on Monday, November 1st from 12:00-3:30.  Please be prompt for your conference time. 
• Don't forget about the October Book Project due on Nov. 1st. Don't wait until October 31st to finish the project, that would not be a very fun Halloween.
• Etiquette Club is on Tuesdays. The group of October is Rolando, Roberto, Carlos, Zarina, and Maria Jose. Please make sure you send a lunch from home on those days. Also send in a fork, knife (if needed) and a napkin.
• We will be celebrating Halloween on Friday, October 29th with at parade at 1:10 and a small party in our room following the parade. Get those costumes ready!  If your child is not dressing up then they may have a color's day.
• We would like to congratulate Diego Hernandez for being chosen for the lunch bunch with Ms. Martinez.  He will have lunch with her on Wednesday, October 27th.