Week of October 28-November 1

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.

In writing, we will write another Personal Narrative and use some of the sentence stretchers that have been learned--adverbs and prepositional phrases. It should be exciting to see the variety of sentences and voice come through.

We are still working in Chapter 1 of GOMath on addition and subtraction within 1,000. Students will have a chapter test the week of November 4.

A special thank you goes to out the Halloween Party Planners--Kelly Halstead, Josie Jubb, Courtney Wargo, and Katy White. They are busy this weekend making phone calls and planning fun for the class party on Thursday.

IMPORTANT DATES
October 31 Halloween Parade and Party --Students can get dressed for the parade beginning at 1:30. Parade at 2:00 PM.
November 1 Half Day for PD -- Students dismissed at 12:05 PM; End of the first marking period
November 8 Report Cards sent home