Nov. 18th- Nov. 22nd

Literacy- 

The question of the week is "What can we learn from exploring new places and things?" We will be reviewing the past five units and the information covered.
We will review our amazing words- investigate  rural, urban, downy, perch, founders, muttered, unanimous, ascend, descend, orbit, universe, enormous  journey, launch, meteorite, tranquil, wildlife, fledglings, secure  detective, fascinating, slimy, arid, landform, precipitation, dunes, ledge, haven, extinct, forbidding, delicate, stun, exhibit, resist, sturdy, satisfaction, inquire and genius
We will also review our high frequency words- beautiful, country, friend, front, someone, somewhere, everywhere, live, machines, move, woman, work, world, bear, build, couldn't, father, love, mother, straight, animals, early, eyes, full, warm, water, gone, learn, often, pieces, though, together, very
Students will be reviewing alphabetizing and synonyms
We will be reviewing short vowels, consonant blends, inflected endings and consonant diagraphs

Your children this week will also be reviewing sentences, identifying subjects, predicates and determining if a sentences is declarative, interrogative, exclamatory or imperative.

We will also be covering the letter J and j in handwriting this week.

Religion-

     With our reconciliation service just around the corner we are going to begin talking about forgiveness and how God calls us to Him. We will be discussing sin and how we ask for forgiveness and and are given it freely.
According to the workshop schedule for reconciliation, the last workshop is on December 15th. If your child is receiving the sacrament of reconciliation through Corpus Christi, they will miss the last workshop. In lieu of the workshop, Mrs. Ortiz and I have invited Fr. Joe to come and talk to each of our classes about the same thing that would be presented in the workshop.The school wide reconciliation service will be on December 11th. 
Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday at 1:45pm. 

Math-
  We are now moving into mental subtraction. We will be discussing subtracting tens, finding parts of 100, subtracting on a hundred chart and subtracting multiples of 100.
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.
Your students are LOVING learning about Ancient Greece (at least from what I am seeing in class) I would love to continue this unit, however after Thanksgiving we will be moving onto the water cycle. 

I will be showing this website to your kiddos, but feel free to continue your exploration of Ancient Greece here. 

Spelling-


We are reviewing all of the phonics units from the past five units. We will be reviewing all of the spelling words. Please use the lists from Spelling City to review our words.

Reminders-

I will be inputting grades throughout the week. I apologize for not getting them in the weekend, there was a lot we accomplished this past week! 

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

Next week we do not have school because of Thanksgiving Break! I hope that you have a wonderful week! 

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

May God bless you!
St. Cecila, pray for us!