Our "12 Days of Christmas" begins on Tuesday! If you would like to participate, the calendar is below.
Also, as we practice for the Christmas play, from this point forward the students will practice with their shoes off, so everyone needs to be sure to wear socks each day. For the actual
Test/Quiz update: The Language Test scheduled for Wednesday will be on Thursday instead.
There will be a History Quiz Friday over sections 8.1-8.3 and p. 539
Study Guide for Language:
Capitalization and Punctuation rules that gave them some trouble
*Seasons do not get capitalized.
*Each word in a title gets capitalized with the exception of small words like "the" and conjunctions "for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so".
**On today's quiz, several of the students lost points for missing capitals in titles. Here is an example: In the poem "The Frost is on the Punkin", the words "is", "on", and "the" are not capitalized, but the rest are capitalized. This can be a little confusing for them, you may want to remind them to keep their eyes open.
*Punctuation in dates looks like this: Thursday, November 30, 2023
It is very easy for them to leave out the commas.
*The colon between the book and verse in scripture is easy to miss as well. Isaiah 9:6
Nouns
Abstract nouns such as, "love" and "ideas" can be difficult because they are still considered to be nouns even though we cannot actually touch them.
Compound nouns are nouns that have two nouns together such as, "baseball" or "Pacific Ocean".
Lastly, proper nouns are our specific nouns such as, "Andrew" or "New Life Christian Academy" rather than "boy" or "school" which are common nouns and do not get capitalized.
Here is the quizlet link for the entire chapter 8 for History. Friday's quiz is only over sections 8.1-8.3 and the bodies of water on p. 539.
https://quizlet.com/817359511/history-test-5-ch-8-and-map-on-p-539-flash-cards/?i=4yarg3&x=1jqt
I hope these little tid-bits will help you to help your child be prepared.
Thank you for all of your dedication to their education!
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
The next few weeks will be fun and exciting for us at school as we practice for the Christmas program and have our class party. Also, I am trying to set up a little Christmas caroling day for our class. I will send details asap.
November 27-December 1
You will notice that homework assignments will include rereading things that we have already read. I am working on the class becoming more fluent in their reading skills. This helps them to understand what they read in all areas of study. Have them read aloud a few times a week to you, but they can read most of it on their own.
Continue practicing multiplication. We are working on the 8 and 9 families this week.
*** We begin homework in class each day and usually have at least a 15-minute study hall. Encourage your child to take advantage of this time in school. ***
Monday: Homework- Math P. 333 L. 55
Science Reread pp 172-180
Tuesday: Homework- Copy Spelling List 12 twice. Vocab only needs to be copied once.
History Reread pp195-197
Reading Reread In His Hands pp 6-16
Wednesday: Language test today
Thursday: Trial Spelling Test today
Homework- Reread in In His Hands--Choose your favorite story.
Science Answer questions on pp 251-252.
Copy missed Spelling words 3 times.
Friday: Spelling Test
Homework- Math P. 335 L. 58
November 13-17
Things to Remember:
~~~Please remind your child to bring Song of the Brook to class every day this week. ~~~~
~Our class Thanksgiving party will be on Tuesday the 14th. The kids need to bring their favorite drink and $5. I will be getting a special lunch for our class to enjoy together and have games and a Thanksgiving movie planned.
~There is no school on Thursday and Friday, as well as the week of the 20th for Thanksgiving break.
~ There will not be a Spelling list or test this week.
Tests for the week: Tuesday- Math Wednesday- Language and Science- Study link below
Homework for the week- Monday- Language p. 222 and History-Read pages 190-193 Tuesday- Finish the final copy of the book report on Song of the Brook. We will begin in class.
https://quizlet.com/815757176/science-test-4-ch-4-flash-cards/?i=4yarg3&x=1jqt
November 6-9 Continue reading in Song of the Brook. Also, study multiplication facts when you have time, most of the class has up to the 6 family memorized. I would like them to have them memorized up to the 12 family by Christmas break.
We will not have a Spelling trial test this week. We will have one normal test on Thursday.
Reminders: There is no school Nov. 10th
There is no school on Nov. 16th and 17th.
Our Thanksgiving party will be on Nov. 14th, details later. :)
***Please let us know if you are joining your child for lunch on the 15th.***
Homework:
Monday
Math p. 331 Lesson 46
Study History Chapter 7 for the test on Tuesday. Here is the quizlet link.
https://quizlet.com/816779446/history-test-4-ch-7-and-map-on-p-523-flash-cards/?i=4yarg3&x=1jqt
Tuesday
Copy Spelling List 11 twice. Don't forget the vocabulary!
Math p. 332 Lesson 50
Study for Science quiz tomorrow over sections 4.5-4.7
Thursday
History p. 185 8.2 on paper
