Tuesday, November 30

Congratulations to Tiani, Jaydon, Savannah, and Jamal for earning Pizza Hut coupons for having 3 or more AR points this month. Savannah also earned a Chick-fil-A kid's meal for having more than 6 AR points. The contest starts over tomorrow and runs through Dec. 22.

The bake sale is this Friday starting at 1:00.

Book orders are due Friday. This will allow enough time for the order to arrive before Christmas holidays.

We started the First in Math program today. Your child has his/her log in information on an index card. They may use this program from home as well as here at school.

Math-worksheet
Spelling-worksheet
Reading-read story
Science-get Safety Contract signed (Your child cannot participate in the hands-on parts of the electricity kit until this paper is signed.)

Monday, November 29

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving break. We will have a busy 3 and a 1/2 weeks before Christmas break. This week our story is "Adelina's Whales." We are working on helping and main verbs in English. In science we will be starting our electricity unit Wednesday. For math we will be moving into geometry concepts.

Reading-read story
Math-page 116-117 (1-12)
Spelling-worksheet (word unscramble)
English-worksheet

Monday, November 22

Don't forget the Academic Assembly tomorrow morning at 8:30.

Book orders came home today. They are due Friday, December 3rd so I can send the order off and get it back before Christmas break. Please order online or send a check in with your child.

No spelling words or reading story this week.

Math-worksheet on division
English-Linking Verb worksheet

Friday, November 19

Don't forget school is only in session Monday and Tuesday next week. Due to having a short week we will not have a reading story or spelling words next week. Also, if your child is going to be out either Monday or Tuesday, please send in a note or email me at jmichael@hsv.k12.al.us. The academic success assembly will be Tuesday morning.

Thursday, November 18

Reading-read story tonight, Pearson test tomorrow
Spelling-worksheet, test tomorrow
Math-page 115 (31-48)
Social Studies-Those students who did not finish looking up the vocabulary in class need to finish it tonight. The words are:

1. adapt
2. agriculture
3. archaeologist
4. artifact
5. council
6. folklore
7. fossil
8. government
9. migrate
10. paleontologist

Wednesday, November 16

Math-page 114-115 (1-30)--some students finished this in class
Spelling-worksheet
Social Studies-page 304 Vocabulary & Terms, Students should write the sentences and underline the answer. This should be done in their social studies notebook.

Tuesday, November 16

Reading-read story
Spelling-worksheet
Math-worksheet (both sides)
Social Studies-read pages 296-300

Monday, November 15

Today was an excellent day in the classroom. The students were introduced to a new website. They had an amazing time playing on http://www.mathplayground.com/. A few students figured out how to enter the multi-player rooms and soon the entire class was racing jet skis. Ask your child to show you this amazing site. Our reading story for the week is "The Stranger." Please make sure your child is reading it each night. We have started a unit on verbs in English. In Social Studies we are still talking about government. We will pick up science right after Thanksgiving with a unit on electricity.

Don't forget: Tomorrow is Thanksgiving lunch. We eat at 11:00 and invite each of you to come eat with us.

If your child is going to miss the Monday & Tuesday prior to Thanksgiving, please send in a note some time this week so the absence will be excused.

Spelling-worksheet
English-worksheet
Reading-read story
Social Studies-workbook page 69 (Please do not tear it out.)

Wednesday, November 10

REMINDER: Tomorrow is Veterans Day. There is no school tomorrow.

Math-worksheet
Spelling-study
Reading-read chapters 11 & 12 of Shiloh
English-worksheet (both sides)
Social Studies-Veterans Day worksheet

Tuesday, November 9

Spelling-study
English-worksheet
Math-worksheet
Reading-read chapters 5 & 6 of Shiloh

I want to praise all my students for their excellent behavior today during the Veterans Day Assembly.

Monday, November 8

Spelling-study, Unit 2 review words
English-worksheet
Math-worksheet (only do the first three rows)

Tomorrow is our Veterans Day Assembly. It begins at 9:00 a.m. and we are encouraging students to wear red, white, or blue tomorrow to show support for our Veterans.

Thursday, November 4

Make-Up Picture Day Tomorrow!

Math-worksheet
Reading-read story, test tomorrow
Spelling-worksheet
English-worksheet

Wednesday, November 3

Math-pg 293 (37-43)
Spelling-pg 39
Social Studies-read pages 284-288 and take notes about the three branches of government in the tri-fold made in class

Tuesday, November 2

Spelling-pg 38
English-worksheet
Reading-read story, AR test tomorrow
Math-page 293 (22-36)

Upcoming Events
Friday, November 5th-Make--Up Picture Day
Tuesday, November 9th--PTA meeting, Veteran's Day Program presented by 1st grade--6:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 11th--Veteran's Day Holiday (school's out)

Monday, November 1

Math-page 292 (1-18)
English & Spelling-pg 37
Reading-read story, "So You Want to Be President?"