English- 

This week, we will begin our Grammar unit with sentence types and sentences versus fragments.

Spelling-

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

Week 1 Spelling Words:

past sprain weight today talent waist basketball passed   waste   master

vein relay escape     magnet   crayon remain

Challenge Words:

tomorrow

yesterday

Reading - 

This week, we will begin our Introduction to Literature unit. We will be discussing main idea, character traits, and theme using different books in our classroom library.

Students will also begin 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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Novel Studies:

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 1 Place Value

Monday- Place Value Review

Tuesday-Place Value to the Billions

Wednesday-The Power of 10s Moving Place Value

Thursday-Comparing and Ordering Numbers

Friday-Comparing and Ordering Numbers

• 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          Boddle Click HERE 

Bible

Who is Jesus?

 Memory Verse: Acts 1:8. "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the Earth."

Chapel Leaders

Block 1 - Timothy

  Block 2 - Lucy

  Block 3 - Cooper

Memory Verse Check: August 19th

Verse Leaders at Chapel:

***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 Matter and Magnets

Monday - Setting Up Science Notebook.

Tuesday - Science safety/measurements. Experiment

Wednesday - Types of scales/physical properties of matter.Cont. Exper

Thursday - Changes in matter

Friday - Physical states of matter

Cursive-

The students will be practicing letters in class everyday.  

Students will only write in cursive for Texas History.

Texas History

Monday - What Is Geography?/Location/Place.      

Tuesday - Human-Environment/Regions.                 

Wednesday - Geographic Factors of Texas               

Thursday - Models of the World/Types of Maps.    

Friday - Location/Grid Systems.                               

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.