ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:
There is no school on Wednesday as we observe Veterans Day. I, for one, will be spending the day thanking my sister (navy), uncle (marine corps), and grandad (navy) for their service!
I will have a substitute teacher in the classroom on Thursday. I will be involved in a school tour for several teachers from Scarborough and Biddeford, showing them all of the great things we do here at Russell School! If you have any notes regarding your child’s dismissal plans for the day, please send either a hand-written note or be sure to send an email to Connie Holland at cholland@sad15.org notifying the school of the change. While I will still be in the school on Thursday, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to check my email throughout the day.
Mrs. Thibodeau will be visiting with us on Friday!
Very soon this week, you will be receiving a paper from me requesting the name and address of someone out of state who would be willing to participate in our flat kid exchange. Please send the paper back ASAP! We will be mailing our letters and flat kids before Thanksgiving.
This week in...
Spelling: This is our challenge/review week. Any words your child missed on last week’s summative spelling test automatically become words to practice for this week’s spelling test. This week, students will practice a total of 10 words. So, any remaining spaces after their words to review were filled by challenge words from the third grade priority word list. Each student will be assessed on all 10 words on Friday.
Phonics: We are working with the long and short /u/ sound. Our focus words are: sun, bud, duck, bump, cup rude, rude, fume, dude, and cube.
Vocabulary: Our new focus words are: drowns, drifts, desert, gently, burst, and neighbor. We’ll define these words and build connections to them. Then, we’ll search for them in the short story called “Plant Power!” by Bradley Roberts.
Comprehension: This week we will work on drawing conclusions. When we draw conclusions we think about what we know, clues in the story, and picture clues. This helps us better understand the story. We’ll practice this skill while we read The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.
Grammar: This week, we will work on adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe a noun. We’ll practice identifying the adjectives in a sentence as well as brainstorming adjectives for items found around the classroom.
Writing: Continuing on our letter writing journey, we’ll read the story called The Day the Crayons Came Home. This week, we’ll be writing woeful postcards as the crayons that were lost by Duncan. We’ll tell him where we are and ask him kindly to come get us!
For some added festive fun, we’ll also be reading the book called Turkey Trouble where poor Turkey knows what is going to happen soon so he tries to dress like other animals to throw the farmer off his trail. To go along with the book, we’ll be creating our very own turkeys in disguise and writing all about how we are not, in fact, turkeys. Instead, we might be ninjas or pirates, or ballerinas! Anything but a turkey.
Read Aloud: This week, we join Stanley again in Stanley, Flat Again! Poor Stanley is flat again but he is sure to go on some wonderful adventures!
Math: We are continuing to learn about the wonderful world of geometry. Lessons this week will focus mainly on counting sides, angles, and faces. We’ll also work on naming some 3D shapes. As students show that they are ready to meet their goals, they will be given our final check-in. Once they pass that check-in, they’ll participate in some geometry challenges. Most of our challenge work will be with 3D shapes. A popular choice is building a tower out of geoblocks and creating a 3D drawing of our creation.
Scholastic News: We’ll be reading an article this week called “My Mom, the Veteran”. We’ll meet Kayla who is a mom who served in the armed forces. We’ll read about her life as a solider and also as a veteran. Then, we’ll use a diagram of a Humvee to answer questions.
Science: This week, we’ll be using “Shape It Up” to help us make inferences about how a landform could have changed over time. We’ll have to use our schema to help us decide what caused the change and how long the change may have taken. Want to check it out? Here is the link:
We’ll also be watching the episode of The Magic School Bus all about volcanoes! In this episode, the class is trying to put together a giant globe of the world. However, there is an island so new that it hasn’t been discovered yet! The class will dive under the ocean’s surface and explore an underwater volcano.
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