Week of December 3, 2018

Please Note

The next three weeks are busy and full of holiday fun!  Here are the reminders for this week:

- Please help your child fill out the letter that we will be sending to Santa at the end of the week. Please make sure their handwriting is neat. This is due on Wednesday. Thanks for your help.

- We will have a short subtraction quiz on Thursday this week.  It will only be basic subtraction, subtraction with a number line, and subtraction patterns.  The rest of the subtraction skills will be assessed the week of the 19th.

- We will have a reading and spelling test on the story At Home in the Ocean on Friday. The spelling words are harder for this story so please make sure you are reviewing at home.

- We will be going to Santa's Secret Shop on Wednesday at 10:30am. Please send your child's envelope in by Wednesday marked with who they are buying for and approximately how much to spend on each person. You are welcome to meet us there and help your child shop.

- We will be going on our bowling field trip with our 8th grade buddies at Sproul Lanes on Friday, December 21st. We will need 4 chaperones (no siblings please). Chaperones will meet us at the bowling alley at 9:30.  We will be finished by 11:30.  If you would like to be in the drawing please email me and let me know. You must have all of your clearances up to date. A pizza lunch will be provided back at school that day so you do not have to order hot lunch for your child on the 21st.

- Next Wednesday, December 12th is the K-4 Christmas Concert. It begins at 7:00pm in the Church. Students are to wear their "Christmas" best and you are asked to drop them off at the Parish Center at 6:30pm.

- Please ask your child to check their art supplies and pencil cases. Many kids are in need of new markers, crayons, and colored pencils.  These make great stocking stuffers!

- The second trimester ends this Friday. Report cards will be sent home on the 18th.

Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Homework

Monday
Read At Home in the Ocean
Reading: page 158
Begin Letter to Santa
Practice Words
Math: page 39

Tuesday
Reading: page 159
Letter to Santa due tomorrow
Practice Words
Math: worksheet

Wednesday
Reading: page 154 and 160
Practice Words
Math: worksheet

Thursday
Reread At Home in the Ocean
Reading - 162
Practice Words


Our Week

Religion
We start Chapter 5 - Jesus Teaches Us About Love

Reading
Story: "At Home in the Ocean"
Target Skill: Author's Purpose (Persuade, inform, entertain)
Phonics Skill: Long A, digraph -th, endings (ed, ing, s, es)
Grammar: Proper Nouns
Sight Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, here, me, my, who
Spelling Words: that, them, then, this, thick, think, bath, with

Math
We will continue our unit on subtraction this week. We will learn how to check subtraction by using addition. We will also start working with Fact Families. There will be a short quiz on Thursday on basic subtraction, subtraction with a number line, and subtraction patterns.