Week of May 15
Week of May 15, 2023
Announcements
Monday- Thursday- Half Days 8-11:30am
Friday- Awards Ceremony in Sanctuary 9am, please wear school uniform
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, May 16- Math Ch 11 Test
Wednesday, May 17- English Ch 12 Quiz
Homework
Math- study for test
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Ch 11 Decimals: use Ch 11 Review pg 329-330 in Take Home Folder; write fraction and decimal for picture, write fraction or decimal on place value chart, write the decimal for fractions or mixed number, write fractions for decimal, compare decimals as less than or greater than, round to the nearest whole number and estimate sum or difference, adding and subtracting decimals, reading graphs
English- Ch 12: use workbook pages 141-143 exercises 2-3 to review for quiz: identifying verb as action or linking verb, identify the sentence pattern: SN V, SN V-t DO, SN V-t IO DO, SN LV PrN, SN LV PA; and identifying double negatives and correcting them in a sentence
Weekly Focus:
Reading- Charlotte’s Web: in class activities
Math- Ch 12: telling time to the nearest 5 minutes and minute
English- Ch 12: identify action and linking verbs, identify and correcting double negatives
Social Studies- Ch 6: A Nation Divided, North and South, Civil War
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Week of May 8
Week of May 8, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday, May 10- Chapel
Friday, May 12- Christian T-shirt
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, May 10- Social Studies Ch 5 Test
Thursday, May 11- Math Speed Drill
Friday, May 12- Bible Test 33
Reading Comp Quiz
Spelling Test 34
Homework
Math- worksheet in homework folder due Thursday; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 34 – study these words for test:
- where
- cents
- weight
- peace
- wear
- piece
- wait
- road
- two
- rode
- too
- rowed
- to
- their
- sense
- there
- scents
- they’re
- once
- entire
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Matthew 28:19, “So go and make followers of all people in the world. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Speed Drill, students will have 3 minutes to divide by 9
Social Studies- Ch 5: Louisiana becomes a state; use summary handout to review for test and Compare Graphs pg 92-93 in textbook: identify and read pictographs, bar graphs, and circle graphs, drawing bar graphs; vocab- territory, legislature, industry, cash crop
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- Comprehension Quiz- students read a short story and answer questions about it using the story.
Weekly Focus:
Bible- the Great Commission- praying, giving, evangelizing, be a missionary: Billy Graham, Cam Townsend, Ida Scudder, Count Zinzendorf, Loren Cunningham; vocab: harvest, fund
Reading- Charlotte’s Web: in class activities
Math- Ch 11: add and subtract decimals (p 323-324), problem solving: decimals (p 325-326), graphs (p 327-328), review (p 329-330)
English- Ch 12: classify sentences with mixed patterns, identify action and linking verbs, identify double negatives
Social Studies- Ch 5: Compare Graphs; Review, vocab- territory, legislature, industry, cash crop
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Week of May 1, 2023
Announcements
Tuesday, May 2- Louisiana Industry Poster Project Due
Wednesday, May 3- Chapel
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, May 3- English Ch 11 Test
Thursday, May 4- Math Speed Drill
Friday, May 5- Bible Test 32
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Ch 19-22
Spelling Test 33
Homework
Math- worksheet in homework folder due Thursday; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 33 – study these words for test:
- title
- riddle
- jungle
- buckle
- people
- temple
- rumble
- trouble
- capable
- able
- settle
- handle
- double
- shuttle
- whistle
- sample
- sparkle
- vegetable
- planets
- history
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Galatians 6:9, “We must not become tired of doing good. We will receive our harvest of eternal life at the right time. We must not give up!”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Speed Drill, students will have 3 minutes to divide by 8
English- Ch 11: use workbook page 135 Chapter Checkup 56 to review for test, classifying sentences that are either pattern 1,2, or 3; editing sentences with quotes, vocab- generous and investigate
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 19-22, test will consist of comprehension questions (some multiple choice and short answer) and vocabulary (identifying definition and using the word in a sentence): languishing, carousing, gorge, trifle, desolation, forlorn
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Paul’s Journey to Rome: Shipwreck (Acts 27:9-12, 21-26, 33-38, 39-44), Ministry in Malta (Acts 28:1-10), Arrival in Rome(Acts 28:17-20,30-31)
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 21-22, vocab-languishing, carousing, gorge, trifle, desolation, forlorn
Math- Ch 11: relate fractions and decimals p313-314, compare and order decimals p315-316, read and write decimals p317-318, decimals with whole numbers p319-320, estimate sums and differences p321-322
English- Ch 12: classify sentences with mixed patterns, identify action and linking verbs, identify double negatives
Social Studies- Ch 5: King Cotton, Compare Graphs; Review, vocab- territory, legislature, industry, cash crop
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Week of April 24, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday, April 26- Chapel
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, April 26- Math Ch 10 Test
Friday, April 28- Bible Test 31
Reading- Comprehension Quiz
Spelling Test 32
Homework
Math- worksheet in homework folder due Thursday; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 31 – study these words for test:
- taken
- broken
- cousin
- open
- lessons
- bacon
- buttons
- gallons
- eleven
- robin
- human
- common
- glisten
- sunken
- heavens
- frozen
- person
- happens
- sight
- expect
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Hebrews 10:24, “Let us think about each other and help each other to show love and do good deeds.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Ch 10 Fractions: use Ch 10 Review pg 301-302 in Take Home Folder; vocab- fraction, numerator, denominator, equivalent fractions, mixed number; be able to match fraction with the model, compare fractions, write fraction or mixed number, equivalent fractions, add and subtract fractions, identify fractions on number line
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- Comprehension Quiz- students read a short story and answer questions about it using the story. No test on Charlotte’s Web this week.
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Paul’s Third Missionary Journey: strengthening churches (Acts 19:8-12), showing God’s power (Acts 19:17-29), power of encouragement (Acts 20:7-12,19-24), future persevering (Acts 21:10-15), vocab- endure, riot
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 19-20, vocab-languishing, carousing, gorge, trifle, desolation, forlorn
Math- Ch 8-10 review p303-304, Ch 11: decimal place value p307-308, tenths p309-310, hundredths p311-312
English- Ch 11: identify sentences with mixed sentence patterns, identify beginning and ending quotes, quotation rules, editing sentences with quotations, writing book review, vocab- generous, investigate
Social Studies- Ch 5 Louisiana becomes a state, territory and statehood, right to vote, changes in Louisiana, King Cotton; vocab- territory, legislature, industry, cash crop
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Week of April 17
Week of April 17, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday, April 19- Chapel, Purple up for military kids! Students may wear a purple shirt.
Thursday- 4-H picture and meeting
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, April 19- Math Speed Drill
Thursday, April 20- Social Studies Ch. 4 Test (open book)
Friday, April 21- Bible Test 30
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 16-18
Spelling Test 31
Homework
Math- worksheet in homework folder due Thursday; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 31 – study these words for test:
- rockets
- galaxies
- heroes
- glasses
- brushes
- switches
- sheep
- telescopes
- pennies
- mice
- women
- potatoes
- waltzes
- geese
- shelves
- knives
- moose
- indexes
- chapel
- famous
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Hebrews 10:36, “You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Speed Drill, students will have 3 minutes to divide by 7
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 16-18, test will consist of comprehension questions (some multiple choice and short answer) and vocabulary (identifying definition and using the word in a sentence): tussle, pummeled, lacerated, listless, detected, humble
Social Studies- Ch 4: Struggle in North America, it will be open book which means students may use their book and the summary hand out (that we highlight with important info) during the test, the test will cover the French and Indian war, and American Revolution, making a timeline, vocab- treaty, ancestor, declaration, independence
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Paul’s First 2 Missionary Journeys: Sharing the good news (Acts 14:8-14,19-20, 27-28), Equipping Others (Acts 16:1-15), Persevering (Acts 17:5-12), Giving and living (Acts 18:1-11), vocab- journey, persevere
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 16-18
Math- Ch 10 Fractions:Whole and Mixed Numbers pg 293-294, Fractions on Number Lines pg 295-296, Problem Solving pg 297-298, Probability pg 299-300, Review pg 301-302; vocabulary: numerator, denominator, equivalent fractions, fraction, mixed number.
English- Ch 11: identify sentences with mixed sentence patterns, identify beginning and ending quotes, quotation rules, vocab- generous, investigate
Social Studies- Ch 4 struggle in North America: making a timeline pg70-71, review
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Week of April 3, 2023
Announcements
Monday, April 3- Field Trip
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, April 5- Math Speed Drill
Thursday, April 6- Bible Test – only memory verse, and classwork will be graded
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet in homework folder due Thursday; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 30 Review – study these words for test:
- icicle
- cities
- ascend
- modern
- angle
- judge
- badge
- gasoline
- aglow
- preschool
- unthinkable
- rewrote
- gliding
- happier
- stopped
- tinier
- lazily
- careless
- forgetful
- soldiers
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: John 11:25, “Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will have life, even if he dies.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Speed Drill, students will have 3 minutes to divide by 6
Bible- test will only be the memory verse this week, and classwork will be collected for a grade
Reading- no test this week, we will be doing reading comprehension practice skills in class for a grade
Weekly Focus:
Bible-story of Easter: Passion week, Jesus’ death and resurrection, His ascension
Reading- we will be doing reading comprehension practice skills. We will continue Charlotte’s Web after the break
Math- Ch 10 Fractions: Equivalent fractions pg 287-288, Add fractions pg 289-290, Subtract fractions pg 291-292; vocabulary: Numerator- the number written above the fraction line. Denominator- the number written below the fraction line.
English- writing a descriptive paragraph assignment, and Ch 11: identify sentences with mixed sentence patterns, identify beginning and ending quotes, vocab- generous
Social Studies- Ch 4 struggle in North America: lesson 2- a new nation pg 66-69, making a timeline pg70-71
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Week of March 27
Week of March 27, 2023
Announcements
Tuesday, March 28- Field Trip
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, March 29- Social Studies Ch 3 Test
Reading Comprehension Quiz
Math Speed Drill
Thursday, March 30- Bible Test – only memory verse, and classwork will be graded
English Ch 10 Test
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet in homework folder due Friday; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 28 – study these words for test:
- mostly
- penniless
- beautiful
- happiness
- wavy
- shaky
- fearlessness
- quickly
- spotless
- darkness
- forgetful
- suddenly
- windy
- lazily
- careless
- graceful
- friendly
- peaceful
- away
- soldiers
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: 1 Chronicles 16:24, “Tell the nations about the Lord’s glory. Tell all peoples about his wonderful works.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Speed Drill, students will have 3 minutes to divide by 0-5
Bible- test will only be the memory verse this week, and classwork will be collected for a grade
Reading- Comprehension Quiz- students read a short story and answer questions about it, we will still read Charlotte’s Web Ch 13-15 in class, but we will not have a test on it this week.
Social Studies- Ch 3: First people of Louisiana, use summary hand out study guide to review, vocab: adapt, expedition, colony, barter; reading a timeline (example on pg 47&53, using a map grid pg 54-55
English- Ch 10: classifying sentences with indirect objects, sentence pattern 3 (SN Vt IO DO P3), making nouns plural, editing sentences; use workbook pg 121 to review, vocab words: stationary and hesitate.
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Paul’s Early Ministry: Saul transformed Acts 9:20-30; Called to Serve Acts 11: 19-26; ministry expands Acts 11:27-30; for God’s glory Galatians 1:11-14, 23-24
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Ch 13-15, vocab: noble, mercilessly, incessant, anxiety, modest, versatile
Math- Ch 10 Fractions: Parts of a whole pg 279-280, parts of a set pg281-282, identifying equivalent fractions pg283-284; vocabulary: Numerator- the number written above the fraction line. Denominator- the number written below the fraction line.
English- Ch 10: indirect objects, sentence pattern 3, making nouns plural, vocab- hesitate and stationary, descriptive writing
Social Studies- review Ch 3, and Ch 4 struggle in North America
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Week of March 20, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- We will be leading chapel!
Upcoming dates: Field Trip- March 28
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Thursday, March 24- Math Ch 9 Test
Friday, March 25- Bible Test – only memory verse, and classwork will be graded
Reading Test: Charlotte’s Web Chapters 10-12
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- no homework this week, study for test; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 28 – study these words for test:
- grabbing
- hopping
- biggest
- gliding
- happiest
- hoping
- largest
- stopping
- tiniest
- bigger
- glided
- grabbed
- happier
- hoped
- hopped
- larger
- stopped
- tinier
- underneath
- great
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Isaiah 1:18, “The Lord says, “Come, we will talk these things over. Your sins are red like deep red cloth. But they can be as white as snow. Your sins are bright red. But you can be white like wool.
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Ch 9 Measurement: use Ch 9 review pg 273-274 to review: vocab- meter, Celsius, Fahrenheit, volume, liter, pound, gram, area, gallon, foot; measurement equivalents; choosing the best units for measuring an item, using a ruler to measure in inches and centimeters; convert between measurements; determine temperature; choosing the better estimate; solving 2-step word problems
Bible- test will only be the memory verse this week, and classwork will be collected for a grade
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 10-12, test will consist of comprehension questions (some multiple choice and short answer) and vocabulary (identifying definition and using the word in a sentence): gullible, boasting, surly, solemnly, idiosyncrasy, sensational
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Saul’s Conversion, Acts 9:1-20; the road to Damascus, Saul believes, God’s grace, Paul’s testimony
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Ch 10-12
Math- Ch 9: Measurement- temperature: Celsius pg 269-270; Biblical units of measurement pg271-272; Ch review pg 273-274
English- Ch 10: indirect objects, sentence pattern 3, making nouns plural, vocab- hesitate and stationary, descriptive writing
Social Studies- Ch 3 Settling Louisiana: use a map grid, Ch Review questions, review
Read MoreWeek of March 13
Week of March 13, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Upcoming dates: Wednesday, March 22- we will be leading chapel!
Field Trip- March 28
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Thursday, March 16- Math speed drill
Friday, March 17- Bible Test – only memory verse
Reading Test: Charlotte’s Web Chapters 7-9
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet in Homework folder; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 27 – study these words for test:
- unthinkable
- unable
- removed
- rebuilt
- preschool
- preview
- incomplete
- invisible
- aglow
- unspoken
- aloft
- inactive
- incorrect
- prepay
- prewrite
- return
- rewrote
- unfair
- earth
- tied
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: 2 Chronicles 20:15b, “The Lord says this to you: ‘Don’t be afraid or discouraged because of this large army. The battle is not your battle. It is God’s battle.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 Division facts, dividing by 3 and 4.
Bible- test will only be the memory verse this week
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 7-9, test will consist of comprehension questions (some multiple choice and short answer) and vocabulary (identifying definition and using the word in a sentence): rigid, conspiracy, hysterics, neglected, sedentary, delectable
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Test will only be on memory verse, so No Bible story test this week, because we are practicing for our chapel, which will be for a grade.
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Ch 7-9
Math- Ch 9: Measurement- weight: metric pg259-260, capacity: customary pg 261-262, capacity: metric pg263-264, find volume pg 265-266, temperature: Fahrenheit pg267-268
English- Ch 10: indirect objects, sentence pattern 3, making nouns plural, vocab- hesitate and stationary
Social Studies- Ch 3 Settling Louisiana: the Columbian Exchange pg48-49, the Louisiana Colony pg50-53
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Week of March 6, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Thursday- Spirit Day; 4-H
Friday- no school
Upcoming dates: Monday, March 20- Field trip to Strawberry patch
Wednesday, March 22- we will be leading chapel!
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, March 8- Math quiz
Thursday, March 9- Bible Test Ch 26
Reading Test: Charlotte’s Web Chapters 4-6
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet in Homework folder; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 26 – study these words for test:
- guide
- angle
- courage
- edge
- gather
- hangar
- guard
- badge
- danger
- guest
- garage
- dodge
- cages
- guess
- giant
- gasoline
- village
- judge
- listen
- scared
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Romans 8:18, “We have sufferings now. But the sufferings we have now are nothing compared to the great glory that will be given us.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Quiz- review long division, and study what we have learned so far in Ch 9 measurement: using a ruler to measure to nearest half inch and measure in centimeters, know measurement equivalents: 12 inches=1 foot, 3 feet= 1 yard, 36 inches= 1 yard, 10 millimeters= 1 centimeter, 100 centimeters= 1 meter, 1,000 meters= 1 kilometer
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 4-6, test will consist of comprehension questions (some multiple choice and short answer) and vocabulary (identifying definition and using the word in a sentence): bitterly, frolic, glutton, meekly, gratified, scruples
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Stephen and the early church (Acts 6:5-15, 7:54-60, 8:1-4, Romans8:28); vocab- martyr, persecution
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Ch 4-6
Math- Ch 9: Measurement- length: meters and kilometers pg 253-254, Problem solving:2 steps pg 255-256, weight: customary pg 257-258
English- writing a how-to essay, Ch 10: indirect objects, sentence pattern 3, making nouns plural
Social Studies- Ch 3 Settling Louisiana: Early communities pg 40-43, Early Explorers pg 44-47
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Week of February 27
Week of February 27, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Our next field trip will be coming in March. More info coming soon.
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, March 1- Social Studies Ch 2 Test
Thursday, March 2- English Ch 9 Test
Speed Drill
Friday, March 3- Bible Test Ch 25
Reading Test: Charlotte’s Web Chapters 1-3
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet in Homework folder; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 25 – study these words for test:
- service
- advice
- score
- clothes
- scale
- colorful
- notice
- place
- balance
- cities
- circle
- close
- cabin
- pencil
- cycle
- ascend
- descend
- icicle
- airplane
- modern
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: 1 John 1:9, “But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. We can trust God. He does what is right. He will make us clean from all the wrongs we have done.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Social Studies- Ch 2 Land and water of Louisiana and Regions and Resources: use the summary handout to review, review reading a map pg 31, reading a diagram of oxbow lake pg 28-29, Important vocabulary- geography, landform, natural resources, climate
English Test- Chapter 9, use Chapter checkup 46 page 109 in workbook to review for test. vocab- defend, mystery; classify sentences with direct objects (DO) and verb transitive (V-t), classify sentences with either pattern 1 or 2, changing mixed tense verbs in a paragraph to the tense listed, editing sentences, identifying object pronouns, can use textbook 218 Verb Chart to become familiar with Irregular Past tense verbs
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 Division facts, dividing by 0 and 1.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- Charlotte’s Web Chapters 1-3, test will consist of comprehension questions (some multiple choice and short answer) and vocabulary (identifying definition and using the word in a sentence): runt, injustice, miserable, enchanted, captivity, appetizing
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Peter is transformed (Luke 22:54-62, John 21:1-25, Mt. 28:16-20, Acts 2:22-47, Acts 3:1-10); vocab- deny, restore, repentance, boldness
Reading- Excited to start reading Charlotte’s Web novel in class! Studying Ch 1-3 this week. We will be reading the book as a class. Students will have a book in class to read, but they may not bring it home. However, due to the school buying a new set of novels this year, they may borrow one of the older books to use at home, just let me know. Also, feel free to borrow it from the library or buy your own copy.
Math- Ch 9: Measurement- length: nonstandard units pg 243-244, length: inches and feet pg 245-246, length: nearest inch or half inch pg 247-248, yards and miles pg 249-250, metric units pg 251-252
English- Ch 9 identifying object pronouns, classify sentences with either pattern 1 or 2, identify mixed tenses in paragraphs, changing verbs to different tenses in paragraphs; vocab- defend, mystery, writing how-to essay
Social Studies- Ch 2: Land and water of Louisiana: the mighty Mississippi, reading a diagram, Lesson 2: Regions and Resources, review; vocab- geography, landform, natural resources, climate; begin Ch 3 Settling Louisiana
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Week of February 13
Week of February 13, 2023
Announcements
Tuesday- Valentine’s Day Party, students may wear Valentines Day or pink/red shirt and jeans
Wednesday- chapel, yellow day for school safety awareness: students may wear yellow shirt and jeans
Thursday- Raising Canes Lunch
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Feb. 15- Reading Comprehension Quiz
Thursday, Feb. 16- English Quiz
Friday, Feb 17- Bible Test Ch 24
Math Ch 8 Test
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet in Homework folder; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 24 Review- study these words for test:
- fourth
- careful
- forgotten
- mountain
- learn
- fearful
- thirteen
- symbol
- merry
- nature
- picture
- straight
- they’ll
- couldn’t
- direct
- captain
- himself
- everyone
- something
- business
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Acts 4:31, “After they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke God’s word without fear.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Reading Comp Quiz- students read a short story and answer questions using the story
English Quiz- changing present verbs in a paragraph to past tense verbs, use Exercise 2 on workbook pg 101, 103, 105, 107 to review, use textbook 218 Verb Chart to become familiar with Irregular Past tense verbs
Math -Chapter 8: Geometry, use Ch 8 Review workbook page 239-240 (will be in Take Home Folder) to review for test, identify plane figures and solid figures, identify acute angles, right angles, obtuse angles; identify congruent shapes, lines of symmetry, identify line segments and angles in plane figures; and faces and edges in solid figures; identify ordered pairs; identify and complete patterns with slides, flips and turns; make predictions, find perimeter and area.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- no test on the story or vocab, but we will read the story in class and complete the workbook pages in class. The workbook pages will be for a grade.
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Pentecost- the day believers received the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4; Acts 2:1-14,22,37-41); vocab- trinity, Pentecost, witness
Reading- No test on the story and vocab, but we will read the story The Naming of Olga da Polga in class and do workbook in class, skill-fantasy, and Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 68): considered, reassuring, temptingly, delicacies, inhabitants, unaccustomed, withdrawn, vanished
Math- Ch 8: Geometry- locate ordered pairs pg 233-234, mapping coordinates pg 235-236, make predictions pg 237-238, ch review pg 239-240, test
English- Ch 9 identifying object pronouns, classify sentences with either pattern 1 or 2, identify mixed tenses in paragraphs, changing verbs to different tenses in paragraphs; vocab- defend, mystery
Social Studies- Ch 2: Land and water of Louisiana: the mighty Mississippi, reading a diagram, Lesson 2: Regions and Resources, review; vocab- geography, landform, natural resources, climate
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Week of February 6, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Friday- 50s Day: students may wear 50s themed attire. Lunch will be hamburgers. Everyone gets a coke float. Cotton Candy and photos for 50 cents each.
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Feb. 8- Social Studies Ch 1 Test
Thursday, Feb. 9- Speed Drill
Friday, Feb 10- Bible Test Ch 23
Reading Test- Rocks in His Head
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet in Homework folder; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling List 23- study these words for test:
- without
- afternoon
- watercolors
- anybody
- underground
- anywhere
- throughout
- cannot
- suitcase
- downstairs
- something
- everyone
- roadblock
- herself
- proofread
- himself
- northwest
- landmark
- electric
- business
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Jeremiah 29:11, “I say this because I know what I have planned for you, says the Lord. I have good plans for you. I don’t plan to hurt you. I plan to give you hope and a good future.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Social Studies- Ch 1 Communities of Louisiana: use the summary handout to review, review reading a map pg 8-9, reading a pie graph, Important vocabulary- citizen, parish, population, suburb (choosing the correct voc. word in a sentence)
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 Division facts, dividing by 5.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible- The Transfiguration (Luke 9:18-36); vocab- transfiguration, mediator
Reading- Rocks in His Head, skill-purpose of biography, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 62): quarries, lift, garnets, mineralogist, admiration, confidence, hesitation, solemnly
Math- Ch 8: Geometry- perimeter p223-224, area p 225-226, transformations p227-228, lines of symmetry p229-230, geometry all around p231-232
English- Ch 9 identifying object pronouns, classify sentences with either pattern 1 or 2, identify mixed tenses in paragraphs, changing verbs to different tenses in paragraphs; vocab- defend, mystery
Social Studies- Chapter 1 Communities of Louisiana p1-18, begin Ch 2: Land and water of Louisiana
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Week of January 30, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Jan. 31- English Ch 8 Test
Thursday, Feb. 2- Speed Drill
Friday, Feb 3- Bible Test ch 22
Reading Test- The Gardener
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet in Homework folder; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- study these words for test:
- aren’t
- they’ll
- shouldn’t
- that’s
- I’m
- you’d
- it’s
- weren’t
- they’d
- wouldn’t
- we’ll
- let’s
- couldn’t
- there’s
- they’ve
- we’re
- you’re
- might’ve
- direct
- captain
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Jeremiah 32:27, “I am the Lord. I am the God of every person on the earth. You know that nothing is impossible for me.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 Division facts, dividing by 4.
English- Chapter 8, use Chapter checkup 40 page 95 in workbook to review for test. vocab- protest, massive, classify sentences with direct objects (DO) and verb transitive (V-t), new pattern- SN V-t DO P2, identifying verb tense- past, present, or future; identifying regular and irregular verbs, listing present tense and past tense helping verbs
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead; vocab- believe, glorify
Reading- The Gardener, skill-compare and contrast the characters in a story, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 56): correspond, efficiently, employed, gravely, nurture, sprouting, survived, vessel
Math- Ch 8: Geometry- angles p213-214; plane figures p215-216; congruent figures p217-218; solid figures p219-220; spatial geometry p221-222
English- Ch 8: finish writing a 3-paragraph persuasive essay pg 238; Ch 8 test; Ch 9 identifying object pronouns, classify sentences with either pattern 1 or 2, mixed tenses in paragraphs
Social Studies- Chapter 1 Communities of Louisiana p1-18
Important vocabulary- citizen, parish, population, suburb (choosing the correct voc. word in a sentence)
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Week of January 23
Week of January 23, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Friday- Christian T-shirt day
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Jan. 25- Math Ch 7 Test
Thursday, Jan. 26- Science Ch 11 Vocabulary Quiz
Friday, Jan 27- Bible Test
Reading Test- Beatrice’s Goat
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- study for test, and finish workbook pages for Chapter 7 pages 183-200 by Friday. I’ll be giving a completion grade for these workbook pages. Most of the pages should already be finished because they were given 20-30 minutes each day to work on them.
Spelling- study these words for test:
- nurse
- hurry
- cheerful
- curve
- turns
- deer
- nature
- steer
- error
- merry
- purpose
- pasture
- surprised
- errand
- adventure
- picture
- purse
- fracture
- bottom
- straight
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Isaiah 60:1, “Jerusalem, get up and shine. Your light has come. The glory of the Lord shines on you.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math – Ch 7 Division: use Ch 7 Review workbook page 203-204 to review (in their take home folder); modeling division problems with blocks, dividing multiples of 10, estimating the quotient, probability, long division up to 4-digit dividends with and without remainders, finding averages, word problems with division and averages
Science- Ch 11 Vocab Quiz study the vocabulary sheet in the take home folder, vocab: asteroid, comet, meteoroid, meteor, meteorite, star, galaxy, constellation
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Jesus heals a man who was blind from birth; vocab- spiritual blindness, spiritual sight
Reading- Beatrice’s Goat, skill- drawing conclusions from the details and the facts in a selection, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 50): sturdy, coarse, yearned, kindhearted, declared, lashed, produce, disbelief
Math- Ch 7 Long Division Test, Chapter 4-7 Review p205-206, begin Ch 8: Geometry- line segments p209-210, intersecting and parallel lines p211-212
English- Ch 8: writing a 3-paragraph persuasive essay pg 238; and review identifying direct objects, transitive verbs, Pattern 2 (SN V-t DO P2), simple verb tenses, regular and irregular verbs; vocab- protest and massive
Science/ Social Studies- the Science grades for this nine weeks will be counted as part of their social studies grade. We will start Social Studies after we finish Science Ch. 11. on Thursday
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Week of January 17, 2023
Announcements
Monday – no school
Wednesday- chapel
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Thursday, Jan. 12- Speed Drill
Friday, Jan 13- Bible Test- Bible Verse Only!
Reading Test- Claw Foot
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet, and finish workbook pages not finished in class; continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- study these words for test List 19 Review:
- airport
- skirts
- chair
- early
- answer
- upstairs
- heard
- fearful
- thirteen
- shepherd
- nearly
- together
- stir
- silver
- first
- learn
- stairs
- covered
- engine
- symbol
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Philippians 4:13,” I can do all things through Christ because he gives me strength.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 Division facts, dividing by 3.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Jesus walks on water, Jesus is omnipotent, connects people to God, is trustworthy, and understands fear; vocab- focus, trustworthy
Reading- Claw Foot, skill- identifying the implied theme, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 44): captives, dismounted, gnarled, disguise, awkwardly, uselessness, addressed, rigid
Math- Ch 7 Long Division: divide 3-and 4-digit dividends by 1-digit divisors, find average of multiple numbers, problem solving, probability
English- Ch 8: identifying direct objects, transitive verbs, Pattern 2 (SN V-t DO P2), simple verb tenses, regular and irregular verbs; vocab- protest and massive
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Week of January 9
Week of January 9, 2023
Announcements
No chapel this week
Jan 9-13 is Homecoming Week! Each day will have a dress up day which students MAY participate in but the dress up days are not mandatory! Please remember that we will call you to bring clothes for your child if they are dressed at all inappropriately!!
Monday–Pajama Day–students may wear appropriate pajamas. Please no slippers. Student will go outside for recess. Appropriate means that the graphics on the pj’s are appropriate for school and that the fit is appropriate.
Tuesday–Fictional Character Day–again, please make sure the fictional character is appropriate for school; No witches or wizards, etc.
Wednesday–Wacky Wednesday–mix it up! Don’t match/wear a wig/look ridiculous! (But appropriate!)
Thursday–Decades Day–dress in the style of your favorite decade!
Friday– Super Spirit Day (jeans and spirit shirts/free shoes/spray paint hair but no face paint please!) and Parade and Pep Rally
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Jan. 11- Science Ch 10 Vocabulary Quiz
Thursday, Jan. 12- Science Ch 10 Test
Speed Drill
Friday, Jan 13- Bible Ch 19 Test
Reading Test- A Gift for Tia Rosa
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- study these words for test List 19 Review:
- forgotten
- shortest
- market
- careful
- depart
- corner
- course
- worry
- share
- yours
- warm
- fourth
- report
- before
- storms
- worker
- warning
- seashore
- mountain
- noisy
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: Psalm 34:8, “Examine and see how good the Lord is. Happy is the person who trusts the Lord.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 Division facts, dividing by 2.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Science- Chapter 10 The Solar System; study Ch 10 vocabulary and chapter review page 159-160 in workbook; order of planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Helpful terms- moon (revolves around the Earth); sun (center of the solar system); the sun and all of the objects that revolve around it make up the solar system.
vocabulary: telescope, probe, satellite, solar system, planet, revolution, orbit, axis, rotation, moon phase
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Jesus satisfies, Jesus feeds 5,000; He is the Bread of Life and Good Shepherd; Jesus drives out demons; Armor of God; vocab- compassion, spiritual warfare
Reading- A Gift for Tia Rosa , skill- understanding the author’s purpose, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 32): flickered, fringe, confessed, fierce, frail, schedule, wisdom, determination
Math- Ch 7 Long Division: dividing with and without remainders, divide 3-and 4-digit dividends by 1-digit divisors, find average of multiple numbers
English- Ch 8: identifying direct objects, transitive verbs, Pattern 2 (SN V-t DO P2), simple verb tenses, regular and irregular verbs; vocab- protest and massive
Science- Chapter 10: Solar System-space exploration, sun and solar system, planets, earth’s moon; vocabulary: telescope, probe, satellite, solar system, planet, revolution, orbit, axis, rotation, moon phase
Social Studies- Coming Soon in the 3rd Nine Weeks
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Week of January 2
Week of January 2, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Thursday, Jan. 5- Speed Drill
Friday, Jan 6- Bible Ch 18 Test
Reading Test
Spelling Test
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- study these words for test List 18 Review:
- sign
- gnat
- whole
- directions
- fifth
- which
- children
- sandwich
- divided
- oily
- choice
- rejoice
- however
- surround
- outstanding
- probably
- also
- caught
- yawned
- awesome
Bible- memorize Memory Verse: John 2:11, “So in Cana of Galilee, Jesus did his first miracle. There he showed his glory, and his followers believed in him.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 multiplication facts with factors of 9.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Jesus’ first miracle-water into wine, growing in faith, power of a testimony; vocab- miracle and faith
Reading- Bear Mouse, skill- understanding setting as the most important element, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 26): telltale, intent, skimmed, talons, hibernation, burrowed, darted, dodge
Math- Ch 7 Long Division: review division strategies, divide by multiples of 10, estimate quotients, 2-digit quotients, dividing with and without remainders
English- Ch 7 Writing: Persuasive Paragraph, Ch 8: direct objects
Science- Chapter 10: Solar System-space exploration, sun and solar system, planets, earth’s moon; vocabulary: telescope, probe, satellite, solar system, planet, revolution, orbit, axis, rotation, moon phase
Social Studies- Coming Soon in the 3rd Nine Weeks
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Week of December 12, 2022
Announcements
Monday is a full day of school. Tuesday-Friday are half days.
Monday-Thursday: Christmas Bizarre
Wednesday- No chapel
Friday- Christmas Chapel, then Christmas Party
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Dec. 13- Science Ch 9 Vocabulary Quiz
Reading Comprehension Quiz
Wednesday, Dec. 14- English Ch 7 Test
Thursday, Dec 15- Math Ch 6 Test
Bible Ch 17 Test
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- No Spelling Test this week
But these will be our Spelling words after Christmas break:
- sign
- gnat
- whole
- directions
- fifth
- which
- children
- sandwich
- divided
- oily
- choice
- rejoice
- however
- surround
- outstanding
- probably
- also
- caught
- yawned
- awesome
Bible- memorize Memory Verse Due Thurs, Dec. 15- John 3:17, “God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through him.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Science- study Ch 9 vocabulary: erosion, landslide, avalanche, mudslide, volcano, earthquake, fault, tsunami
Math- Chapter 6 Multiplication- use Ch 6 Review workbook pg 177-178 to use to review; multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers with and without regrouping, multiplying by 10s and multiples of 10, reading a line graph, vocabulary: estimate, factor, product, regrouping
English- Ch 7, review chapter 7 check up in workbook page 83, vocab words- notify and demolish (know the definition, synonym, antonym) analogies, classifying sentences with compound subject nouns or compound verbs, helping verbs, conjunctions, preposition and object of preposition, possessive pronoun adjective, adjective, adverb, natural and inverted word order. Labeling sentences as either F, S, SCS, SCV, CD. new labels: interjections (I) and possessive noun adjective (PNA); homonyms and contractions
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Christmas: Prophecy, Jesus is born, God is omnipotent, wise men worship, vocab- prophet, prophecies
Reading- No reading test. Reading Comprehension quiz is a short story and questions about it.
Math- Ch 6: multiplication- multiply by 10s and 100s, multiply with and without regrouping, multiply 2-digit and 3-digit numbers, estimating an answer
English- Chapter 7: new classifications: Interjection (I) example: Wow!, and possessive noun adjective (PNA) example: Tommy’s house- Tommy’s PNA; homonyms, contractions
Important vocabulary: notify (pg. 189) and demolish (pg.194)
- Helpful pages in the textbook- pg. 504
- page 181- new classification (I) interjection PNA (possessive noun adjective)
- page 186- homonym chart
- page 189 vocabulary word- notify
- page 190 contraction chart
- page 194 vocabulary word-demolish
Science- Chapter 9: Changes in Earth’s Surface- gradual and sudden changes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis; vocabulary: erosion, landslide, avalanche, mudslide, volcano, earthquake, fault, tsunami
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Week of December 5, 2022
Announcements
Tuesday- Christmas Play 7:00 pm, students need to be there by 6:45 in choir room
Wednesday- No chapel
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Monday, Dec 5- Science Ch 8 Vocab Quiz
Tuesday, Dec. 6- Science Ch 8 Test
Thursday, Dec 8- Speed Drill
Friday, Dec 9- Spelling Test List 17
Reading Test: Patrick and the Great Molasses Explosion and vocabulary
No Bible test this week due to Christmas Play, which is for a Bible grade
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- thoughtful
- daughter
- naughty
- lawyer
- caught
- almost
- often
- haul
- also
- loss
- stall
- fault
- rainfall
- always
- bought
- authors
- yawned
- awesome
- distance
- beside
Bible- memorize Memory Verse Due Thurs, Dec. 15- John 3:17, God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through him.
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Science- Chapter 8 Earth’s Surface; study Ch 8 vocabulary and chapter review page 127-128 in workbook, and student’s highlighted parts in the workbook; vocabulary: mineral, sedimentary rock, igneous rock, metamorphic rock, rock cycle, humus, landform, elevation
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 multiplication facts with factors of 8.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Christmas: Prophecy, Jesus is born (we will start Ch 17 after the Christmas Play and finish next week)
Reading- Patrick and the Great Molasses Explosion, skill- understanding and recognizing historical fiction, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 20): molasses, craving, clattered, cobblestones, enormous, rivets, rumbling, chaos
Math- Ch 6: multiplication- multiply by 10s and 100s, multiply with and without regrouping
English- Chapter 7: new classifications: Interjection (I) example: Wow!, and possessive noun adjective (PNA) example: Tommy’s house- Tommy’s PNA; homonyms, contractions
Important vocabulary: notify (pg. 189) and demolish (pg.194)
- Helpful pages in the textbook- pg. 504
- page 181- new classification (I) interjection PNA (possessive noun adjective)
- page 186- homonym chart
- page 189 vocabulary word- notify
- page 190 contraction chart
- page 194 vocabulary word-demolish
Science- Chapter 9: Changes in Earth’s Surface- gradual and sudden changes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis; vocabulary: erosion, landslide, avalanche, mudslide, volcano, earthquake, fault, tsunami
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Week of November 28
Week of November 28, 2022
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel, eagle store
Friday- Spirit shirt, jeans
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Nov. 30- Math Ch. 5 Test
Thursday, Dec 1- Speed Drill
Friday, Nov 11- Spelling Test List 16
Bible Chapter 16 Test and memory verse
Reading Test: Heartland and vocabulary
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- towels
- browse
- surround
- cloudy
- sounded
- count
- louder
- crowd
- power
- frown
- pounds
- downtown
- playground
- drown
- outstanding
- outdoors
- household
- however
- different
- probably
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- 1 Corinthians 4:2, “A person who is trusted with something must show that he is worthy of that trust.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math- Ch 5: Division- use Chapter 5 Review pg 151-152 in take home folder to review, study division facts 0-9, study division strategies- arrays, repeated subtraction, count back on number line, fact families; word problems, vocabulary- dividend, divisor, quotient
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 multiplication facts with factors of 7.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Stewardship- parable of talents (Matthew 25:14-30) and parable of minas (Luke 19:15-24), stewardship builds God’s kingdom, honor God with faithfulness, choose faithful stewardship
Reading- Heartland, skill- recognize the images in a narrative poem, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 8): fertile, hues, etched, livestock, toil, weathered, define, stockyards, converge, merge, vital, descends, drought
Math- Ch 5: division facts and strategies
English- write essay about favorite animals; Chapter 7: new classifications: Interjection (I) example: Wow!, and possessive noun adjective (PNA) example: Tommy’s house- Tommy’s PNA;
helpful note: page 504 in the textbook (all of the classifications for sentences).
Important vocabulary: notify (pg. 189) and demolish (pg.194)
Science- Chapter 8: Earth’s Surface- rocks and minerals, three types of rocks, rock cycle; vocabulary: mineral, sedimentary rock, igneous rock, metamorphic rock, rock cycle, humus, landform, elevation
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Week of November 14, 2022
Announcements
Monday- Texas Roadhouse Fundraiser Money Due
Wednesday- no chapel
Friday- Christian T-shirt or Thanksgiving shirt and jeans, Thanksgiving Chapel 1:30pm and Thanksgiving Party afterwards
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Nov. 15- Science Ch 7 Test
Thursday, Nov 17- English Ch 6 Test
Speed Drill
Friday, Nov 11- Spelling Test List 15
Bible Chapter 15 Test and memory verse
Reading Test: The Town That Moved and vocabulary
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- rejoice
- understood
- voice
- looked
- oily
- enjoyed
- coins
- hood
- crooked
- choice
- royal
- joining
- destroy
- spoiled
- brook
- pointed
- annoy
- loyal
- divided
- exercise
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Ephesians 4:32, “Be kind and loving to each other. Forgive each other just as God forgave you in Christ.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set. This nine weeks, the AR grade is just based on reaching their point goal.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 multiplication facts with factors of 6.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Science- Ch 7 Magnets; study Ch 7 vocabulary and chapter review page 111-112 in workbook, and student’s highlighted parts in the workbook
English- Ch 6, review chapter 6 check up in workbook page 71, vocab words- decent and exaggerate (know the definition, synonym, antonym) analogies, classifying sentences with compound subject nouns or subject pronouns, helping verbs, conjunctions, preposition and object of preposition, possessive pronoun adjective, adjective, adverb, natural and inverted word order. Labeling sentences as either F, S, SCS, SCV, CD. new CD- compound sentence. Correcting run-on sentences and editing paragraph.
English Textbook pg 504 is helpful for classifying sentences.
To help learn 23 helping verbs, you can find Shurley English Jingle 17 on youtube. We have been singing it in class.
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Forgiveness- how to forgive, applying forgiveness, vocabulary- repent, forgiveness
Reading- The Town That Moved, skill- recognize the setting is critical to the story, and study Vocabulary (daisy side of reading workbook pg 2): cyclones, transport, ambition, briefly, enable, harsh, primary, theory
Math- Ch 5: division, divide by 6, 7, 8, 9, chapter review, line graph
English- helping verbs, natural and inverted word order, conjunctions, compound sentences, run-on sentences, New classification- helping verb (HV) and compound object of preposition (COP), editing a paragraph, vocab- decent, exaggerate
Science- Chapter 7: Magnets, magnetic force, what makes a magnet, magnetic fields, earth-a giant magnet, vocabulary- magnet, magnetism, attract, magnetic pole, repel, electromagnet, magnetic field
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Week of November 7
Week of November 7, 2022
Announcements
Monday- Veteran’s Lunch Forms Due in the Morning
Tuesday- No School
Wednesday- Veteran’s chapel 10 am; Operation Christmas Child Boxes due
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Nov. 9- Math Ch 5 Quiz
Thursday, Nov 10- Speed Drill
Friday, Nov 11- Science Ch 7 Vocab Quiz
Spelling Test List 14
Bible Chapter 14 Test and memory verse
Reading Test: NO Reading test this week (classwork will be collected for a grade)
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing division and multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- then
- which
- shelter
- catcher
- whether
- watched
- branches
- telephone
- photograph
- fifth
- than
- wheel
- kitchen
- children
- weather
- matches
- sandwich
- dashboard
- subject
- recess
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Luke 19:10, “The Son of Man came to find lost people and save them.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 multiplication facts with factors of 0-5.
Math Quiz- Division facts 0-5, writing fact families division and multiplication, and word problems with division
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Science- Ch 7 vocab quiz- magnet, magnetism, attract, magnetic pole, repel, electromagnet, magnetic field
Weekly Focus:
Bible-seeking the lost, parable of the lost sheep, parable of the lost coin, and parable of the lost son in Luke 15, vocabulary- lost, evangelism, reconcile
Reading- We will still read the story Mother to Tigers in class and complete classwork for a grade, but there will be no test on the story or vocabulary
Math- Ch 5: division, problem solving, divide by 6, 7, 8
English- helping verbs, natural and inverted word order, conjunctions, compound sentences, run-on sentences, New classification- helping verb (HV) and compound object of preposition (COP), editing a paragraph, vocab- decent, exaggerate
Science- Chapter 7: Magnets, magnetic force, what makes a magnet, magnetic fields, earth-a giant magnet, vocabulary- magnet, magnetism, attract, magnetic pole, repel, electromagnet, magnetic field
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Week of October 31
Week of October 31, 2022
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Nov. 1- Science Chapter 6 Vocab Quiz
Wednesday, Nov. 2- Science Chapter 6 Test
Thursday, Nov 3- Speed Drill
Friday, Nov 4- Spelling Test List 13
Bible Chapter 13 Test and memory verse
Reading Test: The Burning of the Rice Fields and vocabulary
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- whole
- kneel
- rack
- wrist
- whose
- knock
- wrench
- knotted
- wrecker
- slick
- wrong
- gnat
- whom
- sign
- writing
- knife
- checking
- unknown
- object
- directions
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Colossians 3:17, “Everything you say and everything you do should all be done for Jesus your Lord. And in all you do, give thanks to God the Father through Jesus.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set.
Study for upcoming tests:
Science- – Chapter 6 Electricity; study Ch 6 vocabulary and chapter review page 95-96 in workbook, and student’s highlighted parts in the workbook
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 multiplication facts with factors of 4, such as 4×1 up to 4×9.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Giving thanks in many ways, the 10 men with leprosy and only 1 gave thanks, musical thanks, sacrificial thanks, thanks for God’s mercy and grace, vocab- mercy, grace
Reading- The Burning of the Rice Fields, literature textbook pages 251-258, skill- character’s actions, and study Vocabulary (reading workbook pg 80): abundant, ancient, boldly, decisive, festive, generosity, panic, predict
Math- Ch 5: division, divide by 2, divide by 3, divide by 4, divide by 5, zero and one in division
English- writing an essay, helping verbs, natural and inverted word order, conjunctions, compound sentences, run-on sentences, New classification- helping verb (HV) and compound object of preposition (COP)
Science- Chapter 6: Electricity, static electricity, electric current, types of circuits, electricity in homes, electricity safety, vocabulary- electricity, static electricity, conductor, insulator, electric current, circuit, switch, resistor
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Week of October 24
Week of October 24, 2022
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Oct 26- English Chapter 5 Test
Speed Drill
Thursday, Oct 27- Math Chapter 4 Test
Friday, Oct 21- Spelling Test List 12
Bible Chapter 12 Test and memory verse
Reading Test: A Day When Frogs Wear Shoes and vocabulary
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- coach
- follow
- tomorrow
- pumpkin
- minutes
- usual
- choose
- truthful
- clasp
- except
- subtract
- finally
- lamb
- gulped
- Psalms
- climber
- halftime
- yourself
- Christian
- Christmas
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Luke 8:15, “And what is the seed that fell on the good ground? That is like those who hear God’s teaching with a good, honest heart. They obey God’s teaching and patiently produce good fruit.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set.
Study for upcoming tests:
English: Ch 5, review chapter 5 check up in workbook page 59, vocab words- trail and career (know the definition, synonym, antonym) analogies, editing, classifying sentences adding compound subject nouns (CSN), compound verbs (CV), conjunctions (C), subject pronouns (SP), possessive pronoun adjective (PPA), understood you subject pronoun. Also identifying types of sentences as simple (S), fragment (F), simple sentence with compound subjects (SCS), simple sentence with compound verbs (SCV). Also, correct run-on sentences by rewriting them according to the label.
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 multiplication facts with factors of 3, such as 3×1 up to 3×9.
Math test- chapter 4 Multiplication: study multiplication math facts, study concepts and vocabulary on chapter 4 review (workbook page 117-118)
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Parable of the Sower (Luke 8: 4-15), responding to the gospel, preparing the soil, growing in faith, vocab- gospel, reap, sow.
Reading- A Day When Frogs Wear Shoes, literature textbook pages 235-245, skill- connections and relationships between characters, and study Vocabulary (reading workbook pg 74): arctic, clammy, doze, explore, locate, pastime, puncture, scalding
Math- Ch 4: multiplication strategies (repeated addition, equal groups, and making an array), multiply by 8, multiply by 9, bar graphs, chapter review
English- Chapter 5: classifying sentences, pronouns, subject pronouns, understood subject pronouns, possessive pronoun, and possessive pronoun adjective; simple sentence, coordinate conjunctions, and compound subject, compound verb; identify fragments, run-ons, and types of sentences, vocabulary- trail, career (page 132, 136 in the textbook). They should have a sheet with all the vocabulary words in their folder.
Science- Chapter 6: Electricity, static electricity, electric current, types of circuits, electricity in homes, electricity safety, vocabulary- electricity, static electricity, conductor, insulator, electric current, circuit, switch, resistor
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Week of October 17
Week of October 17, 2022
Announcements
Monday- Field Trip! – leaving at 8; and Panda Express Lunch Money Due
Wednesday- chapel
Thursday- Panda Express Lunch, if not pre-bought, bring lunch from home
Friday- Spirit Shirt Day
Americanism Art Contest- drawings due Oct 20- drawing of a historical event, must be a free hand drawing (not traced) on paper no larger than 9×12
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Oct 19- Science Ch 5 Vocab Quiz
Thursday, Oct 20- Science Chapter 5 Test
Speed Drill
Friday, Oct 21- Spelling Test List 11
Bible Chapter 11 Test and memory verse
Reading Test: Lorenzo and Angelina and vocabulary
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- splinter
- squeak
- thrill
- scratch
- Christian
- splashed
- thread
- throat
- three
- Christmas
- strong
- sprinkle
- shrimp
- squall
- shrink
- struggle
- spray
- school
- special
- laugh
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- John 3:3, Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. Unless you are born again, you cannot be in God’s kingdom.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, new point goal has been set.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 multiplication facts with factors of 2, such as 2×1 up to 2×9.
Science- Chapter 5 Motion and Force; study Ch 5 vocabulary and chapter review page 79-80 in workbook, and student’s highlighted parts in the workbook
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Born again, Jesus and Nicodemus, spiritual birth, Romans road to salvation, salvation pictures, new creation; Important Vocabulary: salvation- being saved from the punishment of sin and receiving eternal life; and born again- having accepted Jesus as your Savior.
Reading- Lorenzo and Angelina, literature textbook pages 213-230, skill- point of view (the way you see things), and study Vocabulary (reading workbook pg 68): accuse, budge, craggy, eagerly, fatal, fortunately, loyal, thrilling
Math- Ch 4: multiplication strategies (repeated addition, equal groups, and making an array), multiply by 6, multiply by 7, multiply by 8.
Important math vocabulary:
factor-one of the two numbers that are multiplied
product- the result of multiplication (answer)
multiplication- repeated addition of the same number
multiplication sign (x)- the symbol for multiplication
English- Chapter 5: classifying sentences, pronouns, subject pronouns, understood subject pronouns, possessive pronoun, and possessive pronoun adjective; simple sentence, coordinate conjunctions, and compound subject, compound verb; identify fragments, run-ons, and types of sentences, vocabulary- trail, career (page 132, 136 in the textbook). They should have a sheet with all the vocabulary words in their folder. On Friday, students brought home English handouts in folder, which is optional extra practice to do at home.
Science- Chapter 5 Motion and Force: forces, Newton’s Laws of Motion, work and power, simple machines, vocabulary- compound machine, force, friction, gravity, motion, power, simple machine, work
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Week of October 10
Week of October 10, 2022
Announcements
Wednesday- Pastor appreciation chapel
Thursday- 4H meeting 3:10-4:10
Americanism Art Contest- drawings due Oct 20- drawing of a historical event, must be a free hand drawing (not traced) on paper no larger than 9×12
Save the Date: our 1st field trip will be October 17, chaperones are welcomed, permission slips went home last week, please fill out and return
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Thursday, Oct 13- Speed Drill
Friday, Oct 14- Spelling Test List 10
Bible Chapter 10 Test and memory verse
Reading Test: The Printer and vocabulary
Homework
Math- worksheet, and continue practicing multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- halftime
- silky
- helper
- lamb
- crumb
- yourself
- calf
- Psalms
- gulped
- fields
- building
- cornstalk
- melted
- world
- built
- climber
- palm
- calmed
- nothing
- machine
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- 1 John 4:21, And God gave us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, AR points due this week.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 missing parts with subtraction facts to 18, such as 13- ____=8.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Study Guides: For most of the curriculum, the students will bring home a study guide in the take home folder throughout the week. After I finish teaching a chapter, we complete a study guide. They will be sent home only a day or two before the test.
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Walking in love, a heart of love, love everyone, unselfish love, the fruit of love, vocabulary- motive and selfless
Reading- The Printer, literature textbook pages 193-199, skill- character attributes (describing a character’s physical traits and attributes), and study Vocabulary (in reading workbook pg 62): exchanged, fled, engulfed, spewing, shafts, numb, image, shuddered, midst
Math- Ch 4: multiplication strategies (repeated addition, equal groups, and making an array), multiply by 4, multiply by 3 & 4, multiply by 5, multiply by 0 & 1, problem solving
English- Chapter 5: classifying sentences, pronouns, subject pronouns, understood subject pronouns, possessive pronoun, and possessive pronoun adjective; simple sentence, coordinate conjunctions, and compound subject, compound verb; identify fragments, run-ons, and types of sentences, vocabulary- trail (page 132 in the textbook). They should have a sheet with all the vocabulary words in their folder.
Science- Chapter 5 Motion and Force: forces, Newton’s Laws of Motion, work and power, simple machines
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Week of October 3, 2022
Announcements
Monday- Book Fair begins!
Wednesday- no chapel
Thursday- Christian T-Shirt Day
Friday-no school
Save the Date: our 1st field trip will be October 17, chaperones are welcomed, more info coming later
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Oct 4 – Math Ch 3 Test
Wednesday, Oct 5- English Ch 4 Test
Thursday, Sept. 29- Speed Drill
Spelling Test List 9
Bible Chapter 9 Test and memory verse
Reading: No test this week (we will still read the story and learn the vocabulary)
Homework
Math- no worksheet this week; study Chapter 3 Review for Ch 3 test on subtraction, begin practicing multiplication facts (0-10) using flash cards, IPAD, phone, computer, games, etc.
Spelling- Study these words for test
- kept
- clasp
- craft
- asks
- behind
- drifted
- risk
- interesting
- subtract
- gifts
- facts
- actor
- meant
- except
- speech
- skipper
- present
- understand
- toward
- finally
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Proverbs 15:29, The Lord does not listen to the wicked. But he hears the prayers of those who do right.
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school, AR points due this week.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 missing part with subtraction facts to 18, such as 13- ____=8.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home or homework folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Math: Ch 3: Subtraction, study Ch 3 Review pg 81-82, in their Take home folder
English- Ch 4 Prepositions, use Chapter 4 checkup 20, Classroom Practices 17, 18, 19 to review for test, also know vocab words- adjust and sealed (know definition, synonym and antonym), be able to use A/An correctly, subject/verb agreement, analogies, correct capitalization and punctuation
Study Guides: For most of the curriculum, the students will bring home a study guide in the take home folder throughout the week. After I finish teaching a chapter, we complete a study guide. They will be sent home only a day or two before the test.
Weekly Focus:
Bible- The Lord’s Prayer, what prayer is, praise and thanksgiving, God’s plan through prayer, vocabulary- prayer and submission
Reading- Across the Wide Dark Sea, literature textbook pages 163-177, skill- main idea (what is the story about) and recounting details, and study Vocabulary (in reading workbook pg 56): scarcely, vast, desperate, raging, miraculously, hauling, plucked, beams, settlement
Math- Chapter 3 test, begin Ch 4: multiplication strategies, multiply by 2, multiply by 3
English- Chapter 4: classifying sentences, prepositions and prepositional phrases, subject-verb agreement, using a/an correctly, vocabulary- adjust, sealed
Science- Chapter 5 Motion and Force: Motion, speed, forces, Newton’s Laws of Motion
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Week of September 26
Week of September 26, 2022
Announcements
Christmas Play Auditions: All the music and lyrics, and info is on the school website under the “More” tab.
Drama Auditions- Monday, 3:15pm, audition form required
Solo Auditions- Tuesday during Recess, audition form and song prep required
Tuesday- class pictures redo
Wednesday- chapel and eagle store at lunch
Thursday- Spirit Shirt Day
Friday-no school
Save the Date: our 1st field trip will be October 17, chaperones are welcomed, more info coming later
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Monday, Sept. 26- Science Ch 4 Vocabulary Quiz
Tuesday, Sept. 27- Science Ch 4 Test
Wednesday, Sept. 28- Math Ch 3 Quiz
Thursday, Sept. 29- Speed Drill
Spelling Test List 8
Bible Chapter 8 Test and memory verse
Reading: Food’s on the Table, and Vocabulary
Homework
Homework is assigned on Monday in the Homework Folder, and due on Thursday this week in the homework folder. Math Homework will be graded.
Math- worksheet
Spelling- Study these words for test
- huge
- knew
- clue
- crew
- loose
- choose
- root
- fewer
- uniform
- usual
- cruise
- suit
- overdue
- tube
- foolish
- fruit
- useful
- truthful
- Mr.
- Mrs.
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way. And I am the truth and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 subtraction facts to 18.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home or homework folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Science- Ch 4 Matter, study Ch 4 vocabulary and chapter review page 63-64 in workbook, highlighted parts in the workbook (we started a review activity in class on Friday and will finish on Monday in which we highlighted important information in their workbook)
Math: Ch 3: Subtraction, quiz will be subtraction with 2 and 3 digit numbers with or without regrouping
Study Guides: For most of the curriculum, the students will bring home a study guide in the take home folder throughout the week. After I finish teaching a chapter, we complete a study guide. They will be sent home only a day or two before the test.
Weekly Focus:
Bible- “I Am” statements, filling and guiding believers, caring for His sheep, pointing to the Father, connecting to the source
Reading- Food’s on the Table, literature textbook pages 148-157; genre play or drama, skill- drama and make and confirm predictions, and study Vocabulary (in reading workbook pg 50): dismayed, dreadful, frankly, mystified, outcome, sibling, stunned, surveyed
Math- Chapter 3- Subtraction: estimate differences, problem solving, review subtraction
English- Chapter 4: classifying sentences, prepositions and prepositional phrases, subject-verb agreement, using a/an correctly, vocabulary- adjust, sealed
Science- Chapter 4 Test; Chapter 5 Motion and Force: Motion and speed
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Week of September 19, 2022
Announcements
Tuesday- class pictures
Wednesday- chapel and eagle store at lunch, and Fun Run money due
Friday-Fall Day Shirt
Save the Date: our 1st field trip will be October 17, chaperones are welcomed, more info coming later
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Thursday, Sept. 22- Speed Drill
Friday, Sept 23- Spelling Test List 7
Bible Chapter 7 Test and memory verse
Reading: Nothing Much Happened Today, and Vocabulary
Homework
Homework is assigned on Monday in the Homework Folder, and due on Friday in the homework folder. Math Homework will be graded.
Math- worksheet
Spelling- Study these words for test
- post
- coast
- toe
- cove
- below
- mold
- motor
- coach
- rope
- alone
- slowly
- throw
- chosen
- follow
- stroke
- rowboat
- tomorrow
- opening
- minutes
- pumpkin
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- 1 Corinthians 3:11, “The foundation has already been built. No one can build any other foundation. The foundation that has already been laid is Jesus Christ.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, students will have three minutes to solve 20 subtraction facts to 18.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home or homework folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Study Guides: For most of the curriculum, the students will bring home a study guide in the take home folder throughout the week. After I finish teaching a chapter, we complete a study guide. They will be sent home only a day or two before the test.
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Building on the Rock, parable about the wise and foolish builders (Matthew 7:24-27, Luke 6:47-49), set priorities when building, consider wise builders, studying God’s Word
Reading- Nothing Much Happened Today, literature textbook pages 134-143; skill- sequence (the order of events in a story), and study Vocabulary (in reading workbook pg 44): astounded, chaos, drifting, gasped, intended, pandemonium, remarked, revived
Math- Chapter 3- Subtraction: subtraction with regrouping hundreds, subtractions with regrouping tens and hundreds, subtract across zeros, subtracting 4-digit numbers, estimate differences
English- Chapter 3: finish writing and revising a 3-point paragraph on an assigned topic Chapter 4: classifying sentences, prepositions and prepositional phrases, subject-verb agreement, vocabulary- adjust
Science- Chapter 4 Matter: properties of matter, measuring matter, cycles of matter, states of matter, mixtures, and changing matter, Ch 4 Vocab- matter, mass, property, atom, conservation of matter, solid, liquid, gas, substance, mixture, solution, chemical change
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Week of September 12, 2022
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel- Grandparent’s Day and bake sale at lunch and Christian T-shirt Day
Thursday- Alfredo Lunch money due Tuesday
Friday- 3rd Grade Donuts with mom and dad (email with more info coming soon)
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Sept. 13- Science Ch 3 Vocab Quiz
Wednesday, Sept 14- Science Ch 3 Test
Thursday, Sept. 15- English Ch 3 Test
Speed Drill
Friday, Sept 16- Spelling Test List 6
Bible Chapter 6 Test and memory verse
Reading: Sybil Rides by Night, and Vocabulary
Homework
Homework is assigned on Monday in the Homework Folder, and due on Friday in the homework folder. Math Homework will be graded. Late homework will not be taken.
Math- worksheet
Spelling- Study these words for test
- stilts
- yellow
- address
- hundred
- they
- eighty
- safety
- mistake
- because
- eager
- receive
- deceive
- icy
- favorite
- snowy
- beyond
- tired
- pliers
- bicycle
- very
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Matthew 5:16, “In the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do. Live so that they will praise your Father in heaven.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- This week, the speed drill will be to fill in the missing addend with addition facts up to 18. They will have 3 minutes to solve 15 problems like 8+___=15
Science- Chapter 3 Plant Variety, study Ch 3 Vocabulary and chapter review page will be sent home in Take Home Folder, and may use workbook to review
English- For the Ch 3 Test, students need to know the 4 kinds of sentences; the definition, antonym, synonym, and use in a sentence for the vocab words- amused, serious. Also, students need to know classifying sentences, word analogies; singular/ plural nouns, common/ proper nouns, simple subject and simple predicate; 4 parts of speech; topics and paragraphs, supporting and non supporting ideas or sentences, capitalization and punctuation. Also, Chapter 3 Check Up 15 and Classroom Practice 14 in their workbook will be good pages to review for the test.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home or homework folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Study Guides: For most of the curriculum, the students will bring home a study guide in the take home folder throughout the week. After I finish teaching a chapter, we complete a study guide. They will be sent home only a day or two before the test.
Weekly Focus:
Bible-The Beatitudes (read Matthew 5:3-10), the Beatitudes- defined and living the Beatitudes, Being Salt and Light
Reading- Sybil Rides by Night, literature textbook pages 120-130; skill- conflict (the struggle in the story that must be resolved, internal or external), and study Vocabulary (in reading workbook pg 38): coaxed, independence, strained, volunteered, alerted, route, halted, liberty
Math- Chapter 3- Subtraction facts to 18, subtraction strategies, fact families, subtract without regrouping
English- Chapter 3: classifying sentences, word analogies; singular/ plural nouns, common/ proper nouns; topics and paragraphs, supporting and non supporting ideas or sentences, revising sentences; vocabulary- serious, amused; and writing a 3-point paragraph on an assigned topic
Science- Chapter 3 Plant Variety: different types of roots, stems, leaves and flowers, simple plants, science classification; Ch.3 vocabulary- root, stem, phloem tissue, xylem tissue, bulb, tuber, spore, simple plant, classify, scientific classification, pollinator, pollination (vocabulary list will be in their take home folder)
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Week of September 5, 2022
Announcements
Monday- Labor day-No school
Wednesday- chapel- Patriot Day (students may wear patriotic shirt with uniform bottoms) and Eagle store at lunch
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Sept. 6- Reading Comprehension Quiz
Thursday, Sept. 8-Speed Drill
Friday, Sept 9- Math Chapter 2 Test
Spelling Test List 5
Bible Chapter 5 Test only on memory verse
Reading: Shin Dang Dong, and Vocabulary
Homework
Homework is assigned on Monday in the Homework Folder, and due on Friday in the homework folder. Math Homework will be graded. Late homework will not be taken.
Please cover 4 hardback books with brown paper- Shurley English, Social Studies, Literature Opal- Daisy and Sunflower
Math- worksheet
Spelling- Study these words for test
- fright
- shine
- childhood
- buying
- tiny
- tried
- blind
- reply
- skyline
- mighty
- lies
- apply
- nearby
- tired
- bicycles
- brighter
- lives (long i sound) (ex: He saved many lives.)
- pliers
- shoes
- very
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Luke 6:40, “A student is not better than his teacher. But when the student has fully learned all that he has been taught then he will be like his teacher.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Reading Comprehension Quiz- nothing to study for this quiz. It is a short quiz in which students read a short story and then answer questions about that story and they can use the story to answer the questions
Math Speed Drill- This week, the speed drill will be to fill in the missing addend with addition facts up to 18. They will have 3 minutes to solve 15 problems like 8+___=15
Math Test- students may use Chapter 2 Review worksheet in their Take Home Folder on Wednesday to review and their math workbook
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home or homework folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Study Guides: For most of the curriculum, the students will bring home a study guide in the take home folder throughout the week. After I finish teaching a chapter, we complete a study guide. They will be sent home only a day or two before the test.
Weekly Focus:
Bible-Equipping the Disciples, Jesus calls eight more disciples, Holy Spirit helped equipped them to share the news about Jesus, God changed their lives, there are many ways we can grow in Christ
Reading- Good-bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong, literature textbook pages 99-114; skill- conflict (the struggle in the story that must be resolved), and study Vocabulary (in reading workbook pg 32): enthusiastic, aroma, correspond, despair, farewell, foreign, suggest, radiator
Math- Chapter 2- word problems, adding 3 addends, adding 2 to 4-digit numbers with or without regrouping, rounding addends to estimate a sum, adding 3 numbers with 2 or 3 digit numbers, pictograph, vocab: sum, addend, mental math, equation, fact family, estimate, Zero Property of Addition, Grouping Property of Addition, Order Property of Addition
English- Chapter 3: classifying sentences, word analogies; singular/ plural nouns, common/ proper nouns; topics and paragraphs, supporting and non supporting ideas or sentences, revising sentences; vocabulary- serious, amused,
Science- Chapter 3 Plant Variety: different types of roots, stems, leaves and flowers; Ch.3 vocabulary- root, stem, phloem tissue, xylem tissue, bulb, tuber, spore, simple plant, classify, scientific classification, pollinator, pollination (vocabulary list will be in their take home folder)
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Week of August 29
Week of August 29, 2023
Announcements
Wednesday- chapel and Eagle store at lunch
Friday- College Color Day
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Aug 30- Science Vocabulary Quiz
Wednesday, Aug 31- Science Chapter 2 Test
Thursday, Sept. 1- English Chapter 2 Test
Speed Drill
Friday, Sept 2- Spelling Test List 4
Bible Chapter 4 Test and memory verse
Reading: Taro and Tofu, and Vocabulary
Homework
Homework is assigned on Monday in the Homework Folder, and due on Friday in the homework folder. Math Homework will be graded. Late homework will not be taken.
Please cover 4 hardback books with brown paper- Shurley English, Social Studies, Literature Opal- Daisy and Sunflower
Math- worksheet
Spelling- Study these words for test
- brownie
- monkey
- secret
- pieces
- honey
- equal
- grief
- yield
- only
- icy
- keys
- busy
- chief
- valley
- sleepy
- snowy
- beyond
- believes
- favorite
- against
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Isaiah 6:8, “Then I heard the Lord’s voice. He said, ‘Whom can I send? Who will go for us?’ So I said, ‘Here I am. Send me!”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- starting this week, we will have a speed drill once a week. Students will have three minutes to solve 20 facts. This week, the speed drill will be addition facts to 18
Science- Chapter 2 Life of Plants, study Ch 2 Vocabulary and chapter review page will be sent home in Take Home Folder, and may use workbook to review
English- In Take home Folder, a Level 3 Vocabulary List was sent home- this a list of the vocabulary words we will be learning in English throughout the year. From that list, we have learned encourage, soothe, and urgent. For the Ch 2 Test, students need to know the definition, antonym, synonym, and use in a sentence for the vocab words. Also, Chapter 2 Check Up in their workbook will be a good page to review for the test.
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home or homework folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Study Guides: For most of the curriculum, the students will bring home a study guide in the take home folder throughout the week. After I finish teaching a chapter, we complete a study guide. They will be sent home only a day or two before the test.
Weekly Focus:
Bible- The first four disciples, Jesus calls Peter, Andrew, James and John to be his disciples, responding to God’s call, being equipped to be fishers of men, and growing in faith
Reading- Taro and the Tofu, literature textbook pages 75-89; skill-theme (the main idea of story), and study Vocabulary (in reading workbook pg 26): delicacy, dim, errand, linger, respectfully, responsible, struggled, triumph
Math- Chapter 2- word problems, adding 3 addends, adding 2-digit numbers with or without regrouping, vocabulary sum and addend
English- Chapter 2: classifying subject noun, verb, adverbs, adjectives, and article adjectives in sentences; sentence pattern 1: SN V P1, SN-subject noun, V-verb, P1-pattern 1; end marks, kinds of sentences, word analogies, vocabulary- encourage, soothe, urgent
Science- Chapter 2 Life of Plants: plant life cycle, flower parts, plant cells; Ch.2 vocabulary- carbon dioxide, chlorophyll, microscope, cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplast, pollination, stamen, pollen, pistil, germinate, heredity (vocabulary list was sent home in their homework folder)
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Week of August 22, 2023
Announcements
Monday- School Pictures
Wednesday- chapel and Eagle store at lunch
Thursday- Raising Cane’s Lunch
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Tuesday, Aug 23- Math Chapter 1 Test
Thursday, Aug 25- Math Speed Drill
Friday, Aug 26- Spelling Test List 3
Bible Chapter 3 Test and memory verse
Reading: Boom Town, and Vocabulary
Homework
Homework is assigned on Monday in the Homework Folder, and due on Friday in the homework folder. Math Homework will be graded. Late homework will not be taken.
Please cover 4 hardback books with brown paper- Shurley English, Social Studies, Literature Opal- Daisy and Sunflower
Math- worksheet
Spelling- Study these words for test
- street
- easy
- queen
- leaf
- between
- breeze
- jeans
- speed
- deceive
- eager
- steep
- beat
- receive
- cleaned
- please
- reach
- mean
- really
- said
- says
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Matthew 3:17 “And a voice spoke from heaven. The voice said, “This is my Son and I love him. I am very pleased with him.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Math Speed Drill- starting this week, we will have a speed drill once a week. Students will have one minute to solve 20 facts. This week, the speed drill will be addition facts to 18
Math- students may use Chapter 1 Review worksheet in their Take Home Folder to review and their math workbook
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and a study guide sheet in their take home or homework folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Study Guides: For most of the curriculum, the students will bring home a study guide in the take home folder throughout the week. After I finish teaching a chapter, we complete a study guide. They will be sent home only a day or two before the test.
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Jesus prepares for ministry, preaching of John the Baptist, baptism of Jesus, temptation of Jesus
Reading- Boom Town, skill- setting and main character (most important character), and study Vocabulary in reading workbook pg 20
Math- chapter 1 test- place value up to hundred thousand, ordinal numbers, rounding, writing numbers, Chapter 2- Addition facts to 18, word problems
English- Chapter 2: classifying subject noun and verb in sentences, sentence pattern 1: SN V P1, SN-subject noun, V-verb, P1-pattern 1, ADJ-adjectives, ADV-adverbs, word analogies, identify adjectives, word analogies, vocabulary- soothe, urgent
Science- Chapter 2 Life of Plants: Ch.2 vocabulary- carbon dioxide, chlorophyll, microscope, cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplast, pollination, stamen, pollen, pistil, germinate, heredity (vocabulary list will be in their homework folder)
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Week of Aug 15
Week of August 15, 2023
Announcements
Tuesday- Sports Night 6-7pm
Wednesday- chapel and Eagle store at lunch
Friday- Spirit T-shirt Day
Each week, I will send home the test folder with the past week’s test graded for you to see and sign the signature form. Please return the test with graded tests in the folder the next day.
Test Schedule
Wednesday, Aug 17- Science Vocabulary Quiz
Thursday, Aug 18- Science Chapter 1 Test
English Chapter 1 Test
Friday, Aug 19- Spelling Test List 2
Bible Chapter 2 Test and memory verse
Reading: The Story of the White Sombrero, and Vocabulary
Homework
Homework is assigned on Monday in the Homework Folder, and due on Friday in the homework folder. Math Homework will be graded. Late homework will not be taken.
Please cover 4 hardback books with brown paper- Shurley English, Social Studies, Literature Opal- Daisy and Sunflower
Math- review worksheet
Spelling- Study these words for test
- eighty
- playing
- acorn
- they
- safety
- mistake
- lady
- explain
- neighbor
- delay
- break
- skateboard
- afraid
- maybe
- forgave
- training
- steak
- weigh
- months
- because
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Luke 2:40 “The little child began to grow up. He became stronger and wiser, and God’s blessings were with him.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night. When they are finished reading it, they can take a test on it at school.
Study for upcoming tests:
Bible- students may use their workbook to study and for the 1st nine weeks, I will send a study guide sheet in their take home folder
Reading- students use their Reading book to review the story and skill, and use reading workbook to study vocabulary
Science- vocabulary quiz- vocabulary list to study will be in homework folder and Chapter 1 test- students may use workbook to study which has a chapter review at the end of the chapter
English- students can use English book and workbook to study
Study Guides- study guides will either be placed in the Take home folder or Homework Folder
Weekly Focus:
Bible- Jesus’ birth and childhood
Reading- The Story of the White Sombrero (pg 21-34), skill- plot (events that happen in the story), study reading book pg 18 What is Plot? And study Vocabulary in reading workbook pg 8
Math- Place Value up to hundred thousand, rounding, comparing numbers, ordinal numbers, making a graph
English- Chapter 1: capitalization and punctuation, synonyms and antonyms, word analogies, vocabulary- encourage, soothe
Science- Chapter 1 Ecosystems: Ch.1 vocabulary- prey, food chain, consumer, decomposer, scavenger, predator, animal survival (vocabulary list will be in their homework folder)
In case you are not familiar with AR reading, here is some information about it:
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a computer program that helps teachers and librarians manage and monitor children’s independent reading practice. Your child picks a book at his own level and reads it at his own pace. When finished, your child takes a short quiz on the computer. (Passing the quiz is an indication that your child understood what was read.) Accelerated Reader gives children, teachers, and librarians feedback based on the quiz results, which the teacher then uses to help your child set goals and direct ongoing reading practice.
Children using Accelerated Reader choose their own books to read, rather than having one assigned to them. This makes reading a much more enjoyable experience as they can choose books that are interesting to them.
Children’s reading level is determined by a Star Reading Test that children will take in computer class. Based on the test results, which I will send home, your child will receive a book level range. Their book level range will be a number range that your child uses to find a book to read. The purpose of reading a book within their assigned range level is so they do not read books that are too difficult but not too easy.
An AR book is any book that has a comprehension quiz in the AR computer database. To find out if a book is in the AR system, you can go to the AR website by googling AR bookfinder and it should be arbookfind.com and it should take you to a site where you can type in a title of a book and if there is a quiz for it, then it will give the book level, quiz number, and points value.
Every day in class, we will have 30 minutes of AR time in which students are to read a book and then record the book in a log in their AR folder and take a quiz on the iPad about the book. AR quizzes are only to taken at school. Depending on how well they do on the quiz, they earn points and accuracy percentage. Each 9 weeks grading period, the students have a points goal. They will earn a grade for AR for each 9 weeks as a part of their Reading grade. Their grade in AR is an average of achieving their points goal and their accuracy percentage.
If you would like keep track of your child’s AR progress, you can look on the FBCS webpage under library, click on the AR Home Connect Link, and sign up so that you can receive an email every time your child takes an AR quiz. Your child’s username should be the first letter of his/her first name and the first four letters of his/her last name. The password is abc.
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Week of August 8
Week of August 8, 2023
Announcements
Monday- School dismissal 11:30
Wednesday- no chapel
Friday- Christian T-shirt Day
Test Schedule
Spelling: List 1 -Friday
Bible: Chapter 1- Friday (Open book to learn the format)
Reading: The Jar of Tassai- Friday (Open book to learn the format)
Homework
Homework is assigned on Monday in the Homework Folder, and due on Friday. Math Homework will be graded. Late homework will not be taken.
Please cover 4 hardback books- Shurley English, Social Studies, Literature Opal- Daisy and Sunflower (please make sure no tape is on the book)
Math- All About Me math assignment
Spelling- Study these words for test
- led
- legs
- skill
- sniff
- stilts
- stick
- crush
- never
- block
- jacket
- tennis
- gutter
- yellow
- matter
- wobble
- address
- hundred
- eye
- during
Bible- memorize Memory Verse- Deuteronomy 6:4 “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”
Reading- read an A.R. book for 15 minutes each night
Study for upcoming tests
Study Guides- There are no study guides provided by FBCS curriculum for Bible, reading, or English. I will occasionally make study guides as needed. Science, Social Studies, and Math have study guides provided with the curriculum.
Weekly Focus:
Bible- the Trinity, Jesus, the Son of God, the Humble Servant, and God’s Holy Word
Reading- The Jar of Tassai, story elements (characters, plot, and setting)
Math- Place Value: Hundreds place, counting patterns, compare hundreds, ordinal numbers, round to tens and hundreds
English- Chapter 1: Journal writing, capitalization and punctuation, synonyms and antonyms, word analogies
Science- Chapter 1 Ecosystems: Ch.1 vocabulary- prey, food chain, consumer, decomposer, scavenger, predator
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Third Grade Information
Ms. Danielle Roberts
Room 402
Introduction
Welcome to Third Grade! I am very excited about this year, and I am looking forward to working with and getting to know each one of your children. Your child’s academic and spiritual growth will be a wonderful thing to see throughout the year.
I grew up in a loving, Christian family. I attended FBCS starting in first grade and graduated high school here in 2005. I graduated from William Carey University in May 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in elementary education. I have been a substitute teacher at FBCS, First Baptist Child Development Center, and public schools. I have also worked with Homebound teaching, tutored students in math, and worked in aftercare at CDC. From 2012-2014, I taught first grade here at FBCS. Then I had the opportunity to teach in China. I taught English in China at a Chinese Kindergarten for six years. Due to Covid, I have been unable to return to China. Last year, I had the wonderful opportunity to teach first grade at FBCS again.
God has called me to be a teacher and I am eager to follow His will and do my best as your child’s third grade teacher. I believe God has great plans for your children. I am completely devoted and excited to see what God has in store for us this year!
Communication
Please feel free to contact me whenever you have a question or concern. You can contact me by either enclosing a note in your child’s Take Home Folder or emailing me at [email protected].
Your child’s Take Home Folder is used to transport notices, money, etc, back and forth. Check this folder daily and help your child return it each day in his/her backpack.
Your child’s Conduct Folder is used to record his or her daily grade in conduct. Also, check this folder daily and help your child return it each day.
The Test Folder is sent home weekly with the tests inside for you to review and sign. Your child must return the Test Folder each week with the tests.
Your child’s Homework folder will go home each Monday with assigned homework for the week and will be due on Friday.
FBCS sends many notices and information home via email, rather than on paper that can get lost along the way. Our First Baptist Christian School web site is fbcseagles.com, which includes links to Headmaster, my webpage, our Student Handbook, our school calendar, Accelerated Reading, and the lunch menu.
Please check my Teacher update page on the school website every week. I will update it weekly to include announcements, test and homework schedules.
Headmaster (Grades)
You may see your child’s grades on Headmaster. This allows you to keep up-to-date on your child’s progress. I will have each week’s grade posted on Headmaster by Monday. You can also see the test papers each week in your child’s Test folder. Please return the test papers in the Test folder promptly.
Snacks
Students will have a snack in the afternoon, in which students need to bring their own snack each day. Please try to bring a healthy, low sugar snack that is not messy. Students may bring a water bottle to school, but it must be only water in a clear, see-through bottle.
Birthdays
If your child wants to bring a special snack, such as cake or cupcakes or cookies, for his/her birthday, that is perfectly fine. If you bring any type of cake, please bring it pre-cut. Students may pass out birthday party invitations to classmates, only if they bring one for all students in our class.
Class Rules
- Be kind to others.
- Obey your teachers
- Respect others’ property
- Stay in your seat, unless given permission to do otherwise
- Raise your hand according to the signals.
Students will earn a daily conduct grade. Their grade will be posted on the Conduct Calendar in the Take Home folder. Each day students who earn an A in conduct will earn a sticker for their sticker ticket. After students complete their ticket, they can turn it in to choose a prize from the Prize Box on Friday.
If a student disobeys the class rules, this is the procedure. We have a conduct chart with letters A, B, C, D, F. Each student has a clothespin that starts on A every day. If a student disobeys a rule, then the student will have to move his or her clothespin down a letter grade. The consequences for not following the class rules are:
1st offense- Verbal warning (no pin moved, no consequence)
2nd offense- Student moves their clothespin on chart, and has a B in conduct
3rd offense- Student moves pin to C in conduct and lunch detention
4th offense- Student moves pin to D in conduct, and recess detention
5th offense- Student moves pin to F in conduct and sent to office.
Student Handbook
The Student Handbook is your reference guide to the school policies. Please see the Handbook for policies concerning make-up work, absences, uniform, attendance, etc.
I look forward to having a great year and I am excited to see your child grow in every way. I am committed to be the best teacher I can be and to help your child learn in a positive, encouraging, and nurturing environment. Let’s work together! If you need help with anything, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Thank you!
Ms. Roberts
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