Oct. 28th- Nov. 1st

Literacy- 

   The question of the week is "What can we learn by exploring the desert?"  Students will understand that the desert gets very little rain, is home to many animals and has plants that need little water.
   We will continue building our oral vocabulary with the words: arid, haven, dunes, ledge, precipitation, forbidding, landform and extinct. 
   We will also be able to recognize and use our high frequency words-animals, early, eyes, full, warm and water. 
    Our selection vocabulary this week is- cactus, climate, coyote, desert and harsh. 
     Our focus this week in phonics will include inflected endings, review of consonant blends, and VCe words.
    Your children this week will also be to identify declarative (statement) and interrogative (question) sentences. We will be writing brief reports this week and next. 
     We will also be covering the letter h in handwriting this week.

Religion-

     This week we will continue learning about the Ten Commandments by learning how we were given them. We will also reflect on how we can live them out in our own lives. We will then continue by learning ways in which we love God, including worship through mass and prayer. 
     Mass will be celebrated on Friday at 8:00am in celebration of All Saint's Day. 

Math-
     The goal for topic 5 is to understand place value. We will be identifying even and odd numbers and we will use data to solve from a chart to solve a problem. We will also have a math test on Thursday. 
Please have your child practice with tens and ones. This website is extremely helpful and has great games. Click here to access it.

Science-
     We finished our unit on life cycles. The kids really seemed to enjoy exploring different animals and their various life cycles. 

Social Studies-
    We are going to travel back in time for the next two weeks. We will be exploring Ancient Greece. You student will discover how life in Ancient Greece would be different than life today. They will gain understanding of important people such as Socrates and Alexander the Great during their trip back in time. 
     
Spelling-
     We have a very interesting week this week and will not have a spelling test this week. 



Reminders-

I have updated grades, you may have noticed that some assignments are missing, I had quite a few assignments that had no names. Once we go over that in class, those assignments will be updated.

Our class Halloween Party is on Thursday Oct. 31st at 1:40pm. Students are allowed to wear a Halloween shirt and uniform bottoms. 


November 1st will be a very exciting day. We are asking students to dress up as their favorite saint. We will have mass at 8am and it is also a noon dismissal day. I, unfortunately, will not be at school that day. 

Our school calender of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me. 

Have a fabulous week!
Mary, Jesus, Joseph, pray for us!