Mon 10/8 - No school (Columbus Day)
Fri 10/5-Northeast region celebration 1:30
Tues 10/23 - Parent/teacher conferences 3:00-8:00pm
Wed 10/24 - Parent/teacher conferences 3:00-6:00pm
Fri 10/26 - No school (Parent/teacher conference)
Mon 10/29 - No school (Teacher Institute)
Wed 10/31 - Halloween classroom parties 1:00-2:00pm
Wed 10/31 - Halloween parade - parents invited 1:55pm
Spelling - Unit 6 - "Suffixes "-ed" and "-ing"
This week's spelling/vocabulary list will include words with the suffixes -ed and -ing. We will study how adding these suffixes to base words changes their spelling. The final TEST is scheduled for Friday, 10/5.
Reading - Unit 1 - "Courage"
Students will close read the fiction piece titled, Happy Birthday Dr. King. They will work in small groups to answer text-dependent questions and to use context clues to find meanings of unknown words. They will also be creating a digital notebook of vocabulary words for the story.
The Happy Birthday Dr. King vocabulary QUIZ is scheduled for Friday, 10/5. Students should review the word work that they completed in Google Classroom to prepare for the quiz.
English - What is a Sentence?
The chapter 1 TEST is scheduled for Tues., 10/2. Students should prepare for the test by reviewing the textbook, practice pages, and workbook pages for the chapter. There is also a chapter review section in the textbook (p. 56-62) that covers all of the topics we have studied. They will be getting the study guide above tomorrow. This will be a great review.
Writing Fiction-Character Development
In writing, we have been discussing character development. We have talked about internal and external character traits for characters we create in a story. We practiced this as we drafted a story about a super dog named Rover.
Social Studies - The People of the Northeast
The students will continue to learn about the Narragansett People of the NE. We will have a quiz later this week to wrap-up our lesson and a "Northeast Feast" to conclude our study on the NE region of the U.S.
The students and I thought it would be fun to do a food celebration of the NE. We will discuss more on Tuesday. (I will be at a workshop Monday, 10/1). Please discuss if your child would like to make or buy something for our "Northeast Feast." The food item would need to be representative of the NE like a cranberry item (dried cranberries, cranberry bread/muffins, etc, grape item (grapes, grape juice, etc), seafood item (crab dip, lobster rolls, etc), potato item (potato chips, potato pancakes, potato buns, etc) or something with maple syrup, etc. See the resource page in their social studies book for help.
If an item is sent in, it would need to be ready-to-serve.
Sending in something for our NE Feast is totally optional.
The celebration will be on Fri., 10/5 at 1:30.
Please e-mail with ideas or questions and if your child has any food allergies.
tspakausky@ccsd66.org
Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class:
In math this week we will begin Module 4 in Unit One. This module provides hands-on experience with measurement as students explore linear measurement, mass, weight, and liquid volume. They will review the definitions and units of measure for each category.
