Week of October 31st

Happy Halloween!! Thursday and Friday of last week were crazy!  I am sure everyone will be in full force Monday and Tuesday with lots of energy, and then will come off the sugar high by Wednesday!  Remember, we still have work to do!!

Reading
We will be reading A Turkey for Thanksgiving with the question of the week being about celebrations.  The focus this week is on drawing conclusions.  Feel free to offer examples to your child and assist them in drawing conclusions.  The Reading and Vocabulary/Amazing Words test will be Thursday!

Spelling
We will be discussing long a: a, ai, ay.

tail    main    wait    say    away    play    raise    brain    paint

stay    today    tray   holiday   daily   raisin

Grammer
The skill is possessive nouns.  We are going to be practicing this a lot!

Math


Science
Sound will be the focus this week.

Social Studies
We will continue our discussion on Indians. This week we will be focusing on The Sioux and The Intuit.

Reminders:

• I am in DESPERATE need of white copy paper! If you are able to donate some, that would be great!
• Read those AR books!
• Nancy's Italian Ice- $1 (Tuesday)
• Slush- $1 (Thursday)
• I will be sending a Scholastic Book Order form home later on this month!  Books make WONDERFUL gifts!