November 19th-November 30th

With next week being a short week, I am including a description of our curriculum for the next two weeks in this blog!

*Week of November 19th-November 23rd
-Language Arts: Punctuation and Capitalization Review
-Reading: Thanksgiving Scholastic Reader and Thanksgiving essay
-Math: Time review (hour and half-hour) and Thanksgiving math packets (addition and subtraction)
-Science: Squanto and the Pilgrims voyage on the Mayflower
-Life Skills: Discussing "What does it mean to be thankful?"
*Week of November 26th-November 30th
-Language Arts: We will be learning about the four types of sentences: declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative.  There will be a quiz over the types of sentences the following Wednesday (December 5th).
-Reading: We will be finishing up Jigsaw Jones: The Case of the Food Fight.  In continuing with our mystery unit, the students will be reading an independent mystery novel.  The novel choices are Cam Jansen: Snowy Day Mystery, Boxcar Children: The Castle Mystery, and Horrible Harry's Secret.
-Math: This week, we will continue to practice time, more specifically focusing on time to the quarter hour and minute.
-Science: Our body unit focus for the week will be on the Circulatory System and Respiratory System.  We will conduct an experiment for each system and them color, cut-out, and paste the system organs onto our body diagrams hanging in the classroom.
-Social Skills: This week, we are reading a story, Gliding Stars, and relating the story to our own lives, as well as, discussing the various parts of a newspaper.


*Dates to Remember*
-No School: November 21st-23rd

Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!!!!  Enjoy the time with your families!