Monday, November 14, 2011

Week of November 14 - 18

WELLS' HOMEROOM

**Thanksgiving lunch - Thursday, November 17th - 12:20 p.m.

**Family Literacy Night - Thursday, November 17th   Food will be served from 5:00 - 5:30 with Bingo to follow.


WELLS' LANGUAGE ARTS

**The Family Turkey Projects look beautiful!!!  We have received many compliments on these gorgeous gobblers!

**November Book-It is due Tuesday, November 29.  The reading goal is 250 minutes.

SPELLING - We will have a test over these words on Friday, 11/18.
goat         hold         show         most         bowl         float         toast         ago         open
told         toad         slow         almost         throat       hollow     BONUS WORDS:  faraway, parents, answer, picture, company

ENGLISH - We will learn how to use verbs with singular and plural nouns.

READING - We will read the story "Dear Juno".  We will do related comprehension, vocabulary, and skills activities.

WRITING - We will write about ways to communicate.

HOMEWORK - We will have a take home reader on Tuesday.  Your child will bring home a story that should be read to an adult.  The story booklet should be signed by the person listening to the story and returned to school on Wednesday.

THURSDAY BOOK STUDY - The boys will read with Mr. Harper, and the girls will read with Mrs. Wells.  Each group has and assignment that is due Thursday.

THANKSGIVING BOOK STUDY - We will be reading The First Thanksgiving.  In addition to learning about the Pilgrims' voyage, we will focus on restating the question to write each answer in a complete sentence.

CURSIVE - We will learn these lower case letters:  f, h, j, and k.


     WELLS' MATH

We will learn the following concepts this week:
*add two-digit and three-digit numbers
*problem solving practice
*chapter 5 test
*subtract tens

We will continue to review the 2's, 5's, and 10's multiplication tables.







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