Miss Nolte

Good Morning! I hope you all had a wonderful 3 day weekend with your family!

This Week In Mrs. R’s Super Stars:

Bible: This week we will learn about Samson

Memory Verse: 

Help me to do your will, for you are my God. Lead me in good paths.

Psalm 143:10 (19pts.)

* We have begun writing our Bible verses. The kids will not miss points for words not spelled correctly. In 2nd grade they are required to write their Bible verse rather than recite them by memory. I want to make sure they are prepared for this.

Language Arts: In our reading groups this week we are focusing on reading comprehension and fluency. By using our phonics phones I am having the kids listen to their own voices while they read and focus on reading like we talk. We check for comprehension by asking questions related to the story as well as completing working sheets that go along with each book. We are also looking at the setting as well as who the main characters are. In some of our groups we have been working on comparisons in stories and looking for words such as ‘like’ and ‘as’. For writing we have started on keyword outlines. I am teaching the students how to read a short story or paragraph and pull the most important words from the story and make an outline. Soon we will take our outline and rewrite the story using our own notes.

Math: we are starting a new unit on numbers and patterns to 100. I have completed a preassessment with the class to see what they already know. I am now able to start the unit and get going!!

SocialStudies: We will continue our unit on “All the people.”

Science: Health and Wellness

Spelling Words:

boys

came

rain

coach

hope

find

bike

feel

week

told

made

day

time

Sight Words:

once

next

long

around

bat

cold

four

name

fell

every

1-27-State of the School Address. 7-8:30 in G.L. Johnson Chapel

1-28: EL Chapel

2/3-2/7 – Parent Teacher Conferences

2-10 – Lincoln’s Birthday. NO SCHOOL

2-17 – Washington’s Birthday. NO SCHOOL

2-26 – HALF DAY. School dismissed at 12

REMEMBER TO WEAR YOUR SCHOOL SHIRTS EVERY FRIDAY!

Well, we had a successful first week back to school after our wonderful Christmas vacation. The kids are jumping right back into everything very easily. Please remember we will be working on our poems during the week for the Peach Blossom Festival. Make sure to send a copy to school for me. Please be sure to work on these each night with your child. The students must have these poems memorized.

This week in Mrs. R’s Super Stars:

Bible: We will continue learning about Gideon

Memory Verse: I will sing to the Lord because He has blessed me so richly.

Psalm 13:6 (16pts.)

Chapel: On Tuesday our class will be leading worship in chapel! Parents are welcome to come see!! The kids will sing about 4 or 5 songs to open up or time, I have then brought in a guest speaker who will be speaking on seeing opportunities around us!

Language Arts: This week we will be working on the long ‘e’ sound. Our spelling words will all focus on the long ‘e’, as well as doing other activities throughout the week to enforce the long ‘e’ sound. For reading we are continuing to work on fluency, comprehension, setting, and main characters. Some are also starting to look at comparisons in our short stories that we read in our reading. We are looking at words that compare such as “like” and “as”.  For writing we are continuing to focus on the writing steps and rules. We are learning how to brainstorm together to give supporting details of main ideas.

Spelling Words:

be

me

we

see

seed

feel

meat

meet

weak

week

come

other

January

Math: This week we will finish up our unit on time and calendar. This is a very hard concept for kids to grasp. Being able to tell time is not something they are going to master just yet. We will take our test on Wednesday. Last week I sent home a chapter review for your child to work on. This does not have to be turned in. Although we will be moving on to Numbers and Patterns to 100, we will still continue to do activities that involve telling time.

Social Science: We will be focusing on All the People.

Health and Nutrition: Last week we had a great time introducing kids to various types of foods that we eat. We talked about which foods give you strong muscles (like protein), which foods give you BIG energy (like fruits and vegetables), and foods that give very little energy (like soda and candy). The kids also had a chance to learn the food pyramid and the different groups of foods that are required for a healthy diet.

Peach Blossom Festival: REMEMBER TO PRACTICE YOUR CHILDS POEM EVERY NIGHT!

Once again Fresno Christian School will be participating in the Peach Blossom Festival to be held at California State University of Fresno.

The selection procedure is as follows:

1. All first and second grade children will memorize a poem. I must have a copy of their poem here with me at school.
2. Students will be given opportunities to work on their poems in class, but must also work on them at home if they wish to have them memorized.
3. Classroom evaluations will take place at the end of January. Three or four children from each class will be chosen to participate in the Oral Interpretation Assembly. No parents will attend on this day.
4. Campus Oral Interpretation Assembly will be at school (location TBA). At this time two children will be chosen to participate in Peach Blossom at Fresno State. Parents are welcome to attend.

Chocolate sales: Our candy bar sales have begun.There are lots of prizes and activities for the class to win. Our goal is to sell the most boxes in first grade!!!!!!! Boxes will be available for pick up after school. Please make sure that when the kids are selling the candy they do not go door to door on their own. A wonderful/easy way to sell lots of candy is for mom or dad to take the box of candy to work. Lets SELL! SELL! SELL!

Observation: As part of my training and development as a teacher I have the opportunity to go into another first grade classroom all day on Monday January 13th. I will be using this time to observe an experienced teacher! I love when I get the opportunity to see how other teachers run their classrooms and get new ideas for curriculum! Because of this training, I will not be in class on Monday.

1-14- EL Chapel (Mrs. Raymundo’s class in charge)

1-15-HALF DAY. School Dismissed at 12

1-20-Martin Luther King day-NO SCHOOL

1-27-State of the School Address. 7-8:30 in G.L. Johnson Chapel

1-28: EL Chapel

2/3-2/7 – Parent Teacher Conferences

2-10 – Lincoln’s Birthday. NO SCHOOL

2-17 – Washington’s Birthday. NO SCHOOL

2-26 – HALF DAY. School dismissed at 12

REMEMBER TO WEAR YOUR SPIRIT WEAR EVERY FRIDAY!

WELCOME BACK!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

I trust everyone had an enjoyable blessed 3 week vacation! I had a wonderful relaxing time with friends and family! I want to give a big thank you to all the parents for the wonderful gifts I was blessed with before Christmas break. I am happy to be back and tackle the second half of our year. By God’s grace I think we will have great improvement just like we did in the first semester.

This week in Mrs. R’s Super Stars:

Bible: This week we will be focusing on Gideon

Bible Verse: God blesses those who obey Him, happy is the man who puts his trust in the Lord. Proverbs 16:20 (20 pts)

Language Arts: This week we will pick up right where we left off. In our reading groups the students will be working on fluency, comprehension, setting, and main character. We will also be focusing on phonics work with blending words, sight word practice, and sentence structure. In spelling we will be focusing on the long “i” sound. Please be sure to review the spelling words with your child during the week.

Spelling Words

by

my

ride

bike

like

time

nine

dive

find

kind

them

would

winter

*Important Information*:  The grading on our spelling tests will change. During the first semester no points were taken off if a student reverses letters such a “b, d” or “p, q”. However, now that we are getting into the 2nd half of our year that will change. If a student reverses a letter on their spelling test they will not get credit for that word, even if it is spelled correctly. This is to help the students remember which ways our letters go. We will also work on this in writing.In writing we will continue working on proper writing rules. We will also work on expanding our sentences and forming clear coherent sentences independently.

Math: This week we will be looking at telling time!

Social Science: We will be reading “All about people.”

health and nutrition: This week the students will also be learning about health and nutrition. We will be looking at the 4 food groups, and the importance of a healthy lifestyle. If you or any family members are in the health profession and would be willing to come speak to our kids about your career and the importance of nutrition please let me know! The kids love having their family come in!

Peach Blossom Festival

Once again Fresno Christian School will be participating in the Peach Blossom Festival to be held at California State University of Fresno. Please refer to the handout sent home before vacation for information.

The selection procedure is as follows:

1. All first and second grade children will memorize a poem. Please bring me a copy of the poem your child has selected.
2. Students will be given opportunities to work on their poems in class, but must also work on them at home if they wish to have them memorized.
3. Classroom evaluations will take place in January. Three or four children from each class will be chosen to participate in the Oral Interpretation Assembly. No parents will attend on this day.
4. Campus Oral Interpretation Assembly will be in January. At this time two children will be chosen to participate in Peach Blossom at Fresno State. Parents are welcome to attend.

The poem will be a minimum of 2 stanzas or 8 lines long. I can’t wait to hear them in January!

1- 6– School resumes  – Happy New Year

1-14- EL Chapel (Mrs. Raymundo’s class in charge)

1-15-HALF DAY. School Dismissed at 12

1-20-Martin Luther King day-NO SCHOOL

1-27-State of the School Address. 7-8:30 in G.L. Johnson Chapel

1-28: EL Chapel

2/3-2/7 – Parent Teacher Conferences

2-10 – Lincoln’s Birthday. NO SCHOOL

2-17 – Washington’s Birthday. NO SCHOOL

2-26 – HALF DAY. School dismissed at 12

Hello Parents,

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend! This is our last week until Christmas break, and a busy week we have! We have lots of fun activities planned for the kids. Last week we had our benchmark testing. I will be making up any testing that was missed last week.

*Important Information*: When we return from our Christmas vacation the grading on our spelling tests will change. As of now I have not taken any points off if a student reverses letters such a “b, d” or “p, q”. However, now that we are getting into the 2nd half of our year that will change. If a student reverses a letter on their spelling test they will not get credit for that word, even if it is spelled correctly. This is to help the students remember which ways our letters go. We will also work on this in writing.

*Peach Blossom Festival*: Fresno Christian will be participating in the Peach Blossom Festival held at Fresno State. 2 Students grades 1-2 will be chosen to represent our school. Please be sure to check the note sent home on Monday for more detailed information. If stduents wish to  participate they must submit a poem by January 10th.

This week in Mrs. R’s Super Stars:

This week will be a fun and easy week for our class.

Monday December 9th & Tuesday December 10th: Monday and Tuesday  will be a normal schedule. We will work in our reading groups and continue on in our math packet! In the afternoon students will practice writing in their writing journals.

Wednesday December 11th: Wednesday is a half day due to teacher inservice. School will be dismissed @ 12 We also have our kids Christmas concert!!

Fresno Christian Music Department Presents: 

“A Candlelight Christmas”

Kindergarten through Fourth Grades

Elementary Choir

Junior High Choir

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

5:30 pm

Fresno Christian Gym

Please drop your child off in the music suite prior to the performance. I will be in there waiting. When the kids are done performing they will go back to the music suite. You can pick them up there when the concert is over.

Thursday December 12th Class Christmas Party: We will be celebrating our class party on Thursday December 12th. The party will begin at 11:00am with lunch for the kiddos. There was an invite sent out in regards to items needed for our class party. If you have not gotten a chance to see it please do so! The kids will be having pizza that day. If your child does not want pizza you must send them with a lunch. After lunch we will begin our party. We will be doing various crafts for the kids after lunch!!

Friday December 13th Skate Party:

IMPORTANT DATES:

12-10: EL Chapel

12-11 – Christmas Program – FC Gym @ 5:30

12-11 – School dismissed @ 12:00 PM – Teacher Inservice

12-12 – Report cards go home

12-13 – End of 1st Semester – School dismissed at 12:00 PM

12-13: Skating party @ Cal Skate 8:15-9:55

12-16– 1-3 – Christmas Vacation – Happy Birthday Jesus!!! 

1- 6– School resumes  – Happy New Year

1-14- EL Chapel (Mrs. Raymundo’s class in charge)

1-20-Martin Luther King day-NO SCHOOL

1-27-State of the School Address. 7-8:30 in G.L. Johnson Chapel

1-28: EL Chapel

Can you believe it’s December!!!! Wow, the time has gone by so fast! I trust everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving vacation with their family and friends. The Thanksgiving program was adorable! Our little Pilgrims looked so cute on stage! If any parents took pictures please send them my way! I hope everyone enjoyed listening to our Thanksgiving Story. Now we get to move on the birth of our Lord and Savior! Praise Jesus who saves from sins!

This week in class will be benchmark week. The students will be tested on their reading levels. In writing they will be tested on writing an expository text about a place. In math they will be tested on graphing, skip counting, adding and subtracting, and word problems. Over the break please be sure to keep the kiddos reading, writing, and doing math. This was they wont become too rusty over the break.

Since I will be assessing the students reading 1-on-1 I will not be doing reading groups this week.

Other News This Week:

Bible: The next two weeks we will be learning about the Christmas story 🙂

Language Arts: This week in spelling we will focus on the long O sound. Students will be able to accurately spell and write long ) words, high frequency words, and challenge words. In phonics the students will be reviewing the consonant pairs “sh, ch, th, wh”. We will continue to practice our writing and expanding our sentences.

Math: This week we will be practicing subtracting from 12 and less, and fact families. We will then be moving on to Chapter 11 on time and calendar

Social Science: We will be learning about Christmas traditions. This week the students will be sharing their Christmas traditions poster in class 🙂

P.E: Students have PE every Wednesday with Mrs. Whipple!

Bible Verse:

For today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.  Luke 2:11(23pts.)

Spelling Words this week:

go

no

so

boat

coat

rode

home

hope

old

told

give

said

angel

Sight Words:

three

play

take

want

us

wall

uncle

sleep

pick

toy

Christmas Traditions Poster – We will be celebrating Christmas around the world in December. Students will be making a poster depicting their family Christmas traditions. This can be magazine cut outs, pictures, or drawings from your child. You can find poster boards at stores such as Walmart, Target, Longs, Dollar Tree, and Rite-Aid. The children will be making their traditions poster at home and sharing it at school.  It will be due during the week of Dec. 2-6.  Your child can bring it on any of those days and we will share in the afternoons.  Be looking for a note in their take home folders in regards to this assignment.

OUR CHRISTMAS PROGRAM IS NOT UNTIL DECEMBER 11TH! I KNOW MY CALENDAR SAID THE 5TH, I MADE A MISTAKE. IT WILL BE THE 11TH 🙂

 Dress Up Days

Hello Families!!! I hope everyone day a good weekend! I just love spending time with my family! Since this week is a short week we have a short news letter 🙂

Please note that the week we come back from Thanksgiving break is Benchmark week. Students will be tested on reading, writing, and math. Please continue to keep up on these things over the break.

Thank you to those who are helping bring food for our Thanksgiving feast! Our feast will take place Monday starting around 11. Parents may come after recess to help set up if you would like. Please remember that this feast is for the students only. We are only asking enough food for the class.

Language Arts: I will still do my reading groups on Monday focusing on fluency, comprehension, setting, and main characters. Please continue to have your child read everywhere you go! Ask them questions about the stories they read to help with comprehension.

Math: We are continuing on in chapter 6 with addition and subtraction concepts.

Social Science: We will be learning about pilgrims and Indians to prepare for our thanksgiving program.

Spelling Words: NO SPELLING

Bible Verse: NO BIBLE VERSE

Thanksgiving Unit  – We are learning about immigrants in Social Science and the contributions they have made to America.  Among the immigrants we study are the Pilgrims who sailed from England.  We will culminate our studies with a Thanksgiving Program with the Kindergartners. First Graders are the Pilgrims and the Kindergartners are the Indians.The boys should wear white shirts and dark pants and the girls should wear a dark dress or a skirt with a white blouse or shirt. Second Graders will be Americans. If you do not have these clothing items, please do not go out and buy anything. Just wear the closest thing you have. It will be just fine. The program will be on Tuesday, November 2rth at 10:45 A.M. at Student Ministries Center. Please do not enter the building until 10:30 because the high school students will be in there cleaning up. There is school in the afternoon, however, your child is free to go after the program to begin their Thanksgiving vacation.  For those who stay, we will be having a fun friday afternoon. If you know your child will not be here for the program, please let me know, as that will be helpful in preparing the groups for our program.  Thanks!

Christmas Traditions Poster – We will be celebrating Christmas around the world in December. Students will be making a poster depicting their family Christmas traditions. This can be magazine cut outs, pictures, or drawings from your child. You can find poster boards at stores such as Walmart, Target, Longs, Dollar Tree, and Rite-Aid. The children will be making their traditions poster at home and sharing it at school.  It will be due during the week of Dec. 2-6.  Your child can bring it on any of those days and we will share in the afternoons.  Be looking for a note in their take home folders in regards to this assignment.

      Operation Christmas Child – Grades K-6 were able to help deliver the operation Christmas child boxes and pray over them before they were sent off. It was so great for the little ones and the high school students to come together!!

Hello Families! It is almost thanksgiving! I love this time of year when the weather starts to cool and spending time with our families is priorities. Lets remember to give thanks to the Lord in ALL circumstances!!

Language Arts: We continue in our reading groups focusing on fluency, comprehension, setting, and main characters.

Math: This week we will be focusing on adding 3 numbers, finding the missing adden, and problem solving

Bible: This week we will be focusing on Thanksgiving

Spelling Words:

ate

late

made

cake

came

name

rain

sail

day

may

out

more

Christmas

Bible Verse:

In everything give thanks for this is the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Sight Words:

after

bit

apple

fat

just

like

mad

took

over

then

Important Dates

11-26: Thanksgiving program – Peoples Church @ 10:45

11-27-29: Happy Thanksgiving!!! No school

12-11: Christmas program – FC Gym

Hello Parents,

I hope you all had a great 3 day weekend, spending time with your families! Thanksgiving is right around the corner! I can’t believe how fast these holidays are coming.

This week in Mrs. Super Stars:

Bible: We will continue focusing on Thankfulness for the Thanksgiving season. We will discuss as a class all the things we have to be thankful for, and learn that everything we have is because of the graciousness of our Lord.

Memory verse

I will extol the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.

Psalm 34:1 (20pts.)

Language Arts: This week the students will be learning about plural words with -s and -es. Students will practice writing singular and plural words in their spelling book. In our guided reading groups we are continuing to cover the setting of a story and main characters. Students are also working on retelling the story in their own words. They are practicing telling me what happens first, next, and last in a story. We will continue going over all of these during our guided reading groups. In our writing we are focusing on writing about a place. The students are practicing making complete sentences. They are focusing on editing their own paper. This means making sure all their sentences start with a capital letter, all the rest are lower case, they are finger spacing between each word, and they end all their sentences with a period.

Spelling Words: (To be tested Friday)

1. boy     2. boys

3. box      4. boxes

5. dog    6. dogs

7. tent    8. tents

9. about    10. how

11. good    12. Pilgrim

13. Indian

Math:  we are moving on to chapter 6 in our math books. Chapter 6 focuses on adding and subtracting facts to 12. We are skipping chapter 5 for now, and will come back to it at a later time. This chapter should be a review for the students, but they will be learning some new concepts such as adding 3 numbers together, finding the missing addend, subtracting from 12 and less, and fact families.

Social Science: We will be learning about pilgrims and Indians to prepare for our thanksgiving program.

Thanksgiving Unit  – We are learning about immigrants in Social Science and the contributions they have made to America.  Among the immigrants we study are the Pilgrims who sailed from England.  We will culminate our studies with a Thanksgiving Program with the Kindergartners. First Graders are the Pilgrims and the Kindergartners are the Indians.The boys should wear white shirts and dark pants and the girls should wear a dark dress or a skirt with a white blouse or shirt. Second Graders will be Americans. If you do not have these clothing items, please do not go out and buy anything. Just wear the closest thing you have. It will be just fine. The program will be on Tuesday, November 2rth at 10:45 A.M. at Student Ministries Center. Please do not enter the building until 10:30 because the high school students will be in there cleaning up. There is school in the afternoon, however, your child is free to go after the program to begin their Thanksgiving vacation.  For those who stay, we will be having a fun friday afternoon. If you know your child will not be here for the program, please let me know, as that will be helpful in preparing the groups for our program.  Thanks!

Christmas Traditions Poster – We will be celebrating Christmas around the world in December. Students will be making a poster depicting their family Christmas traditions. This can be magazine cut outs, pictures, or drawings from your child. You can find poster boards at stores such as Walmart, Target, Longs, Dollar Tree, and Rite-Aid. The children will be making their traditions poster at home and sharing it at school.  It will be due during the week of Dec. 2-6.  Your child can bring it on any of those days and we will share in the afternoons.  Be looking for a note in their take home folders in regards to this assignment.

      Operation Christmas Child – Thank you to all of you who participated in operation Christmas child. There are many families who are less fortunate than we are, and the Lord gives us many opportunities to bless these families with necessities that they need.

IMPORTANT DATES:

11-11 – Veteran’s Day Holiday – No School

11-26 – Thanksgiving Program  (Kdg-2nd)- Location: SMC. 10:45am

11-27-29 – Happy Thanksgiving – No School

12-5 – Christmas Program – FC Gym @ 5:30

12-6 – Stripes Day. Wear stripes to school

12-11 – School dismissed @ 12:00 PM – Teacher Inservice

12-13 – End of 1st Semester – School dismissed at 12:00 PM

12-16– 1-3 – Christmas Vacation – Happy Birthday Jesus!!! 

1- 6– School resumes  – Happy New Year

DON’T FORGET YOUR SPIRIT WEAR EVERY FRIIDAY

Happy November! I still can’t believe how fast this year is flying by! This is a wonderful time of the year in which we can remember and be thankful for  all the Lord has blessed us with. We know that every good gift is from God. It also reminds me that we need to be thankful at ALL times for the things that we have. This month the theme for our class is thankfulness. As a class we will be discussing through the month what we are thankful for, and to know that these things come from God.

We had a great time this month learning about harvesting and pumpkins! On Friday we did pumpkin tasting! The kids were able to taste pumpkin cake, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin seeds, and pumpkin bars!! We also made a class graph to see which one everyone liked the best!

Language Arts: This week students will be going over a review of all the spelling rules we have learned this far. This is a great time to review with them. We will be reviewing double consonants and various word endings. We are continuing to learn the beginning, middle, and end of a story as well as main characters and settings. When reading at home with them this is a great reinforcement for you to do with them as well. We are also continuing to practice our sight words each day in our reading groups.

Writing: We will be working on writing an expository text about a real place.

Math: This week we will be working on chapter 4 with data and graphing.

Thanksgiving Unit  – We are learning about immigrants in Social Science and the contributions they have made to America.  Among the immigrants we study are the Pilgrims who sailed from England.  We will culminate our studies with a Thanksgiving Program with the Kindergartners. First Graders are the Pilgrims and the Kindergartners are the Indians.The boys should wear white shirts and dark pants and the girls should wear a dark dress or a skirt with a white blouse or shirt. The program will be on Tuesday, November 26th at 10:45 A.M. Location is TBA. There is school in the afternoon, however, your child is free to go after the program to begin their Thanksgiving vacation.  For those who stay, we will be watching a movie. If you know your child will not be here for the program, please let me know, as that will be helpful in preparing the groups for our program.  Thanks!

Bible –  We will not be studying a Bible character these next two weeks, but we will be focusing on our theme of Thankfulness and what God’s Word says about being thankful.

Operation Christmas Child -We are collecting  Samaritan’s Purse shoe boxes. Shoe boxes are due by Thursday, November 7th. If you need a box, there are still some available in the office. Thank you for participating in this worthwhile program as we share the love of Christ to those less fortunate.

IMPORTANT DATES:

11-6 – School dismissed @ 12:00 PM – Teacher Inservice

11-7 – Operation Christmas child boxes are due

11-8-13 – Principal appreciation dress up K-6

11-11 – Veteran’s Day Holiday – No School

11-26 – Thanksgiving Program  (Kdg-2nd)- Location: SMC. 10:45am

11-27-29 – Happy Thanksgiving – No School

12-5 – Christmas Program – FC Gym @ 5:30

12-6 – Stripes Day. Wear stripes to school

12-11 – School dismissed @ 12:00 PM – Teacher Inservice

12-13 – End of 1st Semester – School dismissed at 12:00 PM

12-16– 1-3 – Christmas Vacation – Happy Birthday Jesus!!! 

1- 6– School resumes  – Happy New Year

Happy Fall Everyone!! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend! I dont know about you but I am ready for some cool weather with camp fires and hot chocolate!!

We are so sorry about the pumpkin patch last week! I know the kids were disapointed, but I am glad most of them got to enjoy another pumpkin patch. Mr. Bennett, Mrs. Tally and I will be discussing what we can do in its place.

IMPORTANT: Mrs. Raymundo’s computer has been sick since last week. This weeks homework coming home will not have a newsletter on the top. I do not have all my files on this loaner computer and I do not have access to everyones email!

This week in Mrs. R’s Super Stars

Language Arts: This week our class will be looking at words ending with -all and -alk. We will continue on in our reading groups focusing on reading strategies, sight word practice, the job of an author and illustrator, setting, and main characters. Our groups are doing really well. The students will continue doing their word builders, and boy have we seen improvements!! For writing the kiddos will begin learning about writing about a place while still focusing on using all their writing rules. We are really practicing having them self edit their own paper to see if they can catch any mistakes.

Math: This week we will be taking our chapter 3 test on Tuesday. I will send home a review on Monday to do Monday night as homework. We will then move into chapter 4 learning about graphing and data

Bible: We will be learning about Gods Law

Science: We will continue on with our harvest theme and learning more about pumpkins.

Social Studies: We will be finishing up our changing world and comparing the past with the present. Then we will be moving into “We love our country”.

Operation Christmas Child: The shoe boxes are due November 7th. This is a wonderful opportunity to show the spirit of giving during the Christmas season. You can pack a shoe box with your child full of toys and necessities to send overseas to a child in need. You may include only brand new items. Suggested things to pack are toys, stuffed animals, school supplies, tooth brush and tooth paste, socks, and underwear. You may see more suggestions are samartianspurse.org. Please be sure to include an envelope with $7 for shipping and handling.