Oct. 26, 2012

WEEKEND NEWS

OCTOBER 26, 2012

ELLIS MOTTO:   “I AM RESPONSIBLE AND ALWAYS LEARNING!!!”

ROOM 5 MOTTO:  “DO YOUR BEST!!!”

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

·         Please read the attached Veteran’s Day information.  We would love to honor your family’s veterans!

·         Red Ribbon Week (Drug Awareness Week) Oct. 29 – Nov. 2

Monday:  Pajama Day

Tuesday:  Crazy Hair Day

Wednesday:  Red Day: Wear as much red as possible!

Thursday:  Inside Out Day (wear clothes inside out)

Friday:  Extreme Ellis Spirit Day (wear lots of Ellis colors: pink, gray, blue)

·         Donation of Candy:  If you would like to donate a bag of candy for classroom rewards/prizes for reading, homework, good behavior, etc. I would greatly appreciate it.  All of the Halloween candy will be on clearance soon. J

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK

•   Language:  Drops In The Bucket C9

•   Math:  Subtraction Sheet 20

•   Math:  Drops In The Bucket #33

•   Reading:  read nightly and fill out your reading log.

                        

TECHNOLOGY AND IDAHO HISTORY

Our class has started creating our Power Point slide show project.  We are making slides for each chapter we are studying in Idaho History.  This is an on-going project, and students will share their finished projects with you in the spring.

READING & LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR NEXT WEEK’S STORY

STORY:  Tanya’s Reunion

COMPREHENSION SKILLS & STRATEGIES:

Making Inferences:  Readers use clues from the author and experiences from their own lives to make inferences about story characters.

To make inferences, think about your own experiences and relate it to what you have read about the character.

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS/VOCABULARY:  A word root is part of a word that has meaning but cannot stand alone. Prefixes and suffixes are added to word roots.

spect means "to look at"

sign means "a sign or mark"

LANGUAGE:  Singular and Plural Nouns

VOCABULARY WORDS:  gathering, homestead, arrangements, reunion, persisted, pitches in, satisfaction, great-uncle

WRITING:  character sketch and run-on sentences

MATH SKILLS ADDRESS NEXT WEEK

TABLES, CHARTS, GRAPHS

•   answer and write comparison questions about a pictograph and bar graph

•   use a table to create horizontal and vertical bar graphs

MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION

·         solve multiplication and division comparison word problems

·         practice multiplication and division facts

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Thanks for all you do to help our students succeed!

Denise Thompson