WEEK OF JANUARY 2 - 6

WELLS' LANGUAGE ARTS

**Spelling – We will have a test over these words on Friday, 1/6.
sooner, soonest, hotter, hottest, busier, busiest, happier, happiest, smaller, smallest, fatter, fattest, angrier, angriest, straighter, straightest  BONUS:  question, popular, neighbor, taught, research
 


**English
We will learn how to correctly use am, is, are, was, and were.

** Reading
  We will read the story “A Weed Is a Flower”.  We will do related comprehension, vocabulary, and skills activities.  Our focus will be cause and effect.

**Writing
We will write about ideas we have had and about tools that can be used for research.


**HOMEWORK
We will have a take home reader on Tuesday this week.  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.



**BOOK IT – JANUARY GOAL – 250 MINUTES  - DUE 1/30.
For the next few months we will be participating in the Book It at-home reading program sponsored by Pizza Hut.  At the beginning of each month your child will be given a calendar with that month’s reading goal.  Your child will read the specified number of minutes, have the calendar signed by an adult, and return the calendar to school by the due date.  When the calendar is returned to school, I will give your child a coupon for a FREE personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut.  Your child will also receive a 100% as a Book It reading grade.  Failure to complete this assignment will result in a 0% as a Book It reading grade. 

WELLS' MATH

We will learn the following new concepts this week:

*  determine the value of money

*  pennies, nickels, and dimes

*  quarters and half-dollars

*  counting coins

*  problem solving strategy

*  dollar

* addition and subtraction with regrouping

SOCIAL STUDIES

We will learn the following concepts this week:

*  mountains

*  glaciers and volcanoes

*  valleys and plains

*  islands and peninsulas

*  oceans and streams of water

*  lakes and ponds

WEEK OF DECEMBER 12 - 16

12 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!!!!



**CHRISTMAS PARTY - Thursday, December 15, 1:15 p.m.

WELLS' LANGUAGE ARTS

We will not begin a new story this week.  We will use these days to review previously learned skills.

READING - We will read these Christmas books and do related skills:  Wild Christmas Reindeer, Night Tree, Mrs, Santa Claus, and the Polar Express.  I will also share some of my favorite Christmas books with the students.

ENGLISH - We will review sentences, nouns, verbs, compound words, ABC order, prefixes, and synonyms. 

CURSIVE - We will learn these lower case cursive letters:  c, g, and q.

WRITING - We will follow the writing process from brainstorming through the final copy on a Christmas topic.

SPELLING - We will have daily spelling bees.

WELLS' MATH

We will review addition and subtraction with regrouping.  We will review the 2, 3, 5, and 10 multiplication tables.  We will play multiplication football with the 3's table in order.

I HOPE YOUR FAMILY HAS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

WEEK OF DECEMBER 5 - 9

PER MS. FLOWERS......THERE WILL NO BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS HANDED OUT AT SCHOOL. 

WELLS' LANGUAGE ARTS

BOOK IT IS DUE DECEMBER 14.  The reading goal for December is 100 minutes.

SPELLING.... We will have a test over these words Friday, Dec. 9.

find        child        sky        bright        wild        fly        right        flight        spider        cry        blind

myself    frighten    arrival    identify        BONUS WORDS:  generous, assist, abundant, daughter, youngest

ENGLISH.....We will learn more about verbs.

READING.....We will read the story "Rosa and Blanca".  We will will do related comprehension, vocabulary, and skills activities.  Our focus will be theme/plot and predicting.

WRITING.....We will write about solving problems and being generous.

CURSIVE.....We will learn these lower case letters:  y, z, a, d, and x.

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 Wednesday.

THURSDAY BOOK STUDY.....  The boys will continue to read with Mr. Harper, and the girls will read with Mrs. Wells. Assignments are due on Thursday.

WELLS' MATH

We will learn the following concepts this week:

* estimate differences

* take chapter 6 tests

* learn the 3's multiplication table

* review the 2's, 5's, and 10's multiplication tables