Week of November 5-9

This week students will read the selection, The Wolf, written by Becky Bloom.  This fantasy story is entertaining and humorous.  Students will distinguish between fantasy and reality by deciding if the settings or characters could exist in real life, and whether the plot events could actually happen.   In grammar, students will learn about suffixes and learn four suffix rules which will help them determine how to make nouns plural.  Most of the time students just add the letter -s.  This week they will learn to form the plural if a word ends in a consonant and y, they change the y to i and –es.  In spelling, students will learn that a consonant digraph is two or more letters that stand for one sound.  The consonant digraphs ch and tch stand for the /ch/ sound.  Words this week come from Unit 2/Week 2 and have the /ch/ sound.

We will have a math text on Tuesday, November 6, on Chapter 2 Represent and Interpret Data.  By mid-week, we will begin Chapter 3 Understanding Multiplication.  We will practice subtraction facts during the second marking period.  Please practice these facts with your child.  Flash cards are an inexpensive and quick way to review and develop math fluency.  Being able to recall the basic math facts is helpful in solving word problems on chapter tests and standardized tests.