What S Happening This Week in ?

October 24th, 2016

What’s happening this week in…?

Science:

-Earth surfaces

-Rock Cycle

-Types of Rocks

Social Studies:

-5th grade: Understanding the Election

VS.3/4Jamestown

Math:

Adding and subtracting whole numbers and decimals.

Reading:

-Spelling sorts

-Halloween grammar games!

Upcoming events:

-Pumpkin Book Reports due 10/27/16

-Spirit Week

PBL: Out of Eden Learn-

We have completed our first three footstep! Students will be starting footstep 4 this week. Please make sure they have completed footstep 2 and 3!

Halloween Spirit week

Monday 10/24- Halloween colors day! Wear something with Purple, Black, Orange and/or Green!

Tuesday 10/25- Crazy Socks day and Hallway Decorating! Each Class will make some decorations for their hallway while students wear CrAzY socks!

Wednesday 10/26- Crazy Hair and Door Decorating! Each Class will decorate their door for Halloween while sporting their funniest hair styles!

Thursday 10/27- Sports Day and Pumpkin Decorating! Each class will decorate their pumpkin based on their favorite book(s) while representing their favorite sports team!

Friday 10/28-Literacy Parade! Each student is asked to dress like their favorite story book character, we will have a short parade at the end of the day for the school to see our amazingly decorated school, pumpkins and MCCS students and faculty!

Monday 10/31-Halloween Student may wear their costumes to school on Monday but please no mask, weapons or gore!

Homework:

Now Optional. Suggested practice:

-20 Minutes of any reading

-20 Minutes of Moby Max Math

-3 spelling assignments

-60 minutes of MobyMax of Reading Stories

The best form of communication is via email.

Miss Brennen or

Mrs. Drawdy:

This week’s Spelling Categories:

Lions:

Short –a and Long –a (CVCe and CVVC)

-CVC

Black

Rash

Flash

camp

-CVCe

Space

Frame

Place

Blame

Tale

Mane

-CVVC

Rain

Brain

Paint

Train

Tail

Main

Chain

Faint

Oddball

Said

Want

Tigers:

Adding –ing to words

Double

Setting

Cutting

Stopping

Begging

Grinning

Jogging

humming

e-drop

hiking

moving

living

coming

having

taking

nothing

reading

adding

spelling

floating

feeling

talking

pushing

fixing

working

going

snowing

Bears:

Prefixes: Changes base words to tell time

re-

replay

reappear

reclaim

reconsider

reruns

research

reaction

in-

inflate

interior

inhabit

inmate

install

inhale

ex-

exhale

exile

explore

excess

exhaust

exterior

de-

deflate

defrost

deprive

decrease

delete