Update!

Dear Parents,

I hope you all are enjoying the touch of fall weather we have had the past few days.

We've started a new reading section called Celebrating Traditions. Our story for this week is called The Keeping Quilt. It is about about a family quilt made by Russian immigrants that was passed down many generations. We are focusing on the FCAT skill of author's purpose. Over the next two weeks will will be doing a theme study on Thanksgiving and Fall books. If you child has any books at home that might be applicable, please have them bring them in for me to look at by Wednesday, Nov. 10th. Please don't forget to have your student ready 100 minutes a week. You can split that up however you need to, but they need to be doing 100 minutes a week. If you would like to have them read on the weekends to leave more time during the week for other activities, that is fine.

We had a practice spelling test today, and if your child scored a 100% they will not have to retake the test tomorrow. We will plan on doing this most weeks when time allows. For any spelling or vocab words they missed, they will need to break the word into phonic sounds. For example, paint would be /p/ /ai/ /n/ /t/.

In math we are working on adding and subtracting numbers in the ten and hundred thousand range. Some of the terminology like regrouping instead of carrying may be unfamiliar to you, so please encourage your child to being home their books if they need your help on homework. We will be testing on this math chapter later next week depending on how long we spending getting through the material. They need to complete workbook pages 29 to 32 for homework. They had about 25 minutes to work on it during class today, so they should be close to finished with that.

We are wrapping up our study of Egypt in social studies. Next week will start a two week lesson on Thanksgiving history.

You child should have brought their report card home to yesterday and today they have instruction on how to access ProgressBook with them today. I have started posting the homework on ProgressBook instead of the blog so we'll see how that works for you all. I like feedback, so let me know what you think.

I enjoyed meeting with many of you last night and I am looking forward to the next few weeks as we prepare for our Thanksgiving celebrations through our reading and social studies lessons.

Kindest Regards,
Mrs. Plumblee