Nov. 11th- Nov.

Literacy-

The question of the week is "What does exploration help us find answers?" Students will understand that we can explore questions by exploring new places, reading books and asking others for help. We will be reading a story called "The Strongest One."
We will learn 8 more amazing words that will build oral vocabulary- delicate, stun, exhibit, resist, sturdy, satisfaction, inquire and genius
We will also be able to recognize and use our high frequency words-gone, learn, often, pieces, though, together, very
Our selection vocabulary this week is- narrative, relatives, gnaws, dangerous.
Students are also going to continue working with synonyms.
Our focus this week in phonics will include consonant blends including, tch, wh, th, sh, ch

Your children this week will also be to identify imperative and exclamatory sentences.

We will also be covering the letter i in handwriting this week.

Religion-

     Advent is just around the corner and we are going to be studying Advent, the different symbols and traditions associated with it. We are also going to focus the next few weeks on reconciliation. Why we confess and how reconciliation cleanses our souls.
The school wide reconciliation service will be on December 11th.
Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday at 1:45pm.

Math-
  We are going to continue working with Topic 6 and mental addition. This week we will be completeing the unit with adding multiples of ten and problem solving. The students will also be taking  test on the topic. 
Please continue to have your child practice with tens and ones. This website is extremely helpful and has great games. Click here to access it.

Social Studies-
We will continuing to explore 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 are focusing on consonant digraphs this week, so our spelling words will be- that, wish, patch, when, what, math, them, shape, whale, itch, chsae, bunch

Reminders-

There will be a school wide Veterans Day program Monday at 1:40pm in the gym.

The Scholastic Book fair opens this week, be sure to stop by!
Our school calender of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

If you are looking to volunteer in the classroom, I would love to have you. Centers are being run from 9am-10am most Tuesdays and Thursdays ad some Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. If you are not able to come in at that time, I am looking for help with hole punching, pulling apart and making books or copies. Please let me know if you are interested in helping and when you would be available.
If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.

May God bless you!
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us!