A few announcements.
- This Thursday is Curriculum Night. Please join us from 7pm-8pm to learn more details about our curriculum.
- Picture day is this Friday! Please send back the picture form that was sent home this Monday if you would like your student's pictures.
- A heads up that this weekend is an R&R weekend so there will be no homework. Remind your student to work hard this week so that they can really enjoy the upcoming weekend knowing that they "earned" it!
- If you haven't already please send in Little House on the Prairie! This is our next book in Literature and we hope to start by the end of the week.
Language Arts
Composition: This week we will be finishing up our study of nouns in Grammar and then finishing up the week with composition lessons focused on summarizing and vocabulary.
Spalding: We will continue to move quickly through the words introducing new rules and markings as they appear. Please encourage your student to write in the Spalding manner we have been practicing in class. This is necessary before we move on to learning to write in cursive. I have been getting a lot of questions about how to study the phonograms at home. Hopefully, this will help. An adult or responsible older sibling should hold the cards up one at a time and your student should say the sounds that are found on the back of the card. The words written back there are to help the quizzer know whether they used the correct sound.
Singapore: We will review this week and quiz on Thursday. Review problems will be sent home.
Science: We will begin our study of Astronomy with a short history of astronomers. Next we will move from our galaxy, solar system, planet and learn how rotation and revolutions effect our life on Earth.
After this week ask your student to explain the difference between rotation and revolutions.
Poetry: We finished our study of Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson this Monday. Our scholars worked really hard on this poem and I was impressed by the rhythm and expression heard today. Please watch for the graded rubric in the yellow take home folder this weekend!
Warmly,
Miss Elfelt
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