This week in math we are reviewing for the math benchmark. Our beginning of the year benchmark will be this Thursday, November 17th. I am sending home a review for the students to complete at home this week and to be returned on Thursday. We also did a review today in class that is coming home today. Please go over any question your student missed. Discuss strategies and ways to solve the problem.

*The concepts we have covered that will be on the benchmark are:
place value (hundreds, tens, and ones)
basic addition and subtraction facts
fact families
odd and even numbers
skip counting and patterns
ordering numbers
recognizing points on a number line
reading number words
comparing numbers (> < =)
counting pennies and dimes
word problems
measurement (length and temperature)
graphing
probability
shapes—2D and 3D Shapes

This week in social studies we are discussing Colonial days. We will compare a day in the life of a child in Colonial times vs. today. You can go to http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/ to explore! We used this website in class today!

This week in science we are going to learn about all about sound. We will do a few different experiments with sound this week in our classroom. Explore different sounds around your house this week!

In Reading we will be reading stories about Sarah Morton and Colonial Life, the Native Americans, and Arthur's Thanksgiving. We will work on vocabulary development, comprehension, looking for details, and fluency.

In Writing we will be created WANTED posters for Tom the Turkey. We will be writing what we are thankful for and other fun Thanksgiving stories throughout the week!

In Word Study/Spelling we will be working with words that have the oa pattern. Be sure and check out SpellingCity.com so your child can take a practice test and play games throughout the week.

Check out the pictures below of our Fables Reader's Theater that the students performed last Friday! We had so much fun acting out the fable, "The Foolish Little Hare".