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This upcoming week, we will review Monday then have our Unit 1 Test Tuesday. Students have their test reviews. If they are returned completed and signed, students will recieve an extra 5 points on their test. hen, we will be focusing on preparing for our first personal narrative.

Topics for the Unit 1 Test: 

1. Sentences vs. Fragments

2. Types of Sentences (interrogative, declarative, imperative, exclamatory)

3. Simple Subjects & Predicates

4. Simple & Compound Sentences

5. Prepositional Phrases
   I will send the test review home Thursday. If you would like extra practice on these topics, I have assigned IXL lessons to help students review. On IXL, go to teacher recommendations to view these. 

Writing-

This upcoming week, we will learn about using show, don't tell language in our writing to prepare for our first personal narrative. We will do a whole group example, a partner work example, and then an independent example. The independent work will be taken as a quiz grade.

Spelling-

Spelling packets will be sent home this Friday and are due next Friday for an other grade. We will go over the spelling rules and instructions in class, but the packet is homework.

Week 5 Spelling Words:

group discuss raccoon grew suffer proof value puppet

suit unit salute summit nephew rescue scuba youth

Review Words:

problem

suppose

Challenge Words:

canoe

shoes

Reading - 

This week, we will  begin our novel study on Frindle! Please ensure your child has a copy on Monday! We will be discussing character traits, context clues, problem and solution, and point of view. I am so excited to see students apply these skills in our novel study!

We will have a quiz over the first few chapters on Friday.

Students will also continue their independent reading novel that was chosen Friday. Each day, students will complete a stop and jot in their reading journal. There are stop and jot topics and sentence stems in their journals that they will follow!

Here is a link to the anchor charts we will be using in class. These will be updated as we learn new skills!

⭐ We are accepting lightly used chapter books for the classroom library! 

If you have any books that your child has already read just sitting around the house, we will gladly take them! 

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Frindle by Andrew Clements

ISBN: 0689818769

**Please purchase the paperback version of each book. It is challenging to have class discussions with different page numbers. These books will belong to the student. Click on the Amazon links above. Please do NOT have your student read ahead.**

Math-Topic 2 Add and Subtract Multi-Digit Whole Numbers Math-Topic 3 Multiplication

Monday-Review Stations for Topic 2 

A review will go home on Monday.  If it is completed and signed by a parent they will get 5 points on their test.

Tuesday-Topic 2 Test

Wednesday-Topic 3 Multiply by 10's and 100's

Thursday-Mental Multiplication and Distributive Property

Friday-Distributive Property and Estimate with Multiplication

• Skip Counting Songs (Click Here)

• Free multiplication Games (Click here)

• Prodigygame.com (Click here)

Please study the songs above to practice your math facts. These are the songs we use in class.

Math at Home: On average, 10 minutes of math practice at home each night is encouraged, either on their math facts fluency practice, sent-home worksheets, or IXL/Prodigy/Boddle. We will be setting up our online class accounts this week! 

          IXL Click HERE            Prodigy Click HERE         

Bible

Memory Verse: 1 Peter 3:15. "But in your hearts reverse Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect."

Chapel Leaders

Block 1 - Roy

  Block 2 - Bryce

  Block 3 - Cash

 Bible Verse Quiz September 16th.  

***Every Wednesday, students receive their new Bible verse, which will be updated on the website every Friday. 

Deep Roots Student Login - Students can use this link and their Deep Roots logins to access the Unit we are studying or to access content for makeup work. Students have log in information in their planners. 

Science

We will be studying Mixtures and Solutions

Thursday - Monday - Trail Mix Investigation Lab CER

Tuesday - What is a mixture? CER

Wednesday - Separating mixtures. CER

Thursday - Mixture Vocabulary

Friday - Review notebook and Vocabulary Quiz

CER. stands for Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning

Cursive-

The students will be practicing letters in class everyday.  

Students will only write in cursive for Texas History.

Texas History

Texas Locations

Monday - History Test Week 3-4

Tuesday - The first people of the Americas/Orgins of Texas Tribes

Wednesday - Respect for the land/American Indians and the environment

Thursday - Life in Texas before European Colonization

Friday - Review vocab crossword/blooket

History Test Monday, September 14th 

Studing Blooket Week 3: LINK  Pass with a 90% or better.

Blooket Week 3-4: LINK  Start when finish with Week 3

Mrs. Davila has a phone call in with the link below (Texas Studies Weekly). They are trying to fix the link below. I will let you know as soon as it works!

Texas Studies Weekly Login - Students have log in information in their planners for Texas Studies Weekly to review at anytime or to complete make up work if they do not have their newspapers with them.