Sept. 6th-9th

Team Urban,

Woohoo!  Happy 3 day weekend!  I hope you all have a relaxing weekend and I look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday.

Picture day is this Friday, September 9th. Envelopes will go home Tuesday for Picture Day.  Please bring the envelope filled out with your child's name even if you are not purchasing pictures. It helps with the organization of yearbook pictures and identification of each student.


Our focus this week:
ELA:

-Case of the Gaspign Garbage test 9/9-Friday
-Respond to reading questions with RACE-Continue reading The Case of the Gasping Garbage while focusing on character actions and motivations, the sequence of events, citing textual evidence, temporal words, setting, plot, and theme.
-Spelling: base words and endings -ed, -ing, -er, -est

1. pennies
2. inches
3. plants
4. families
5. bodies
6. glasses
7. wishes
8. pockets
9. lists
10. copies
11. parties
12. bunches
13. crashes
14. supplies
15. pencils
16. accidents*
17. libraries*
18. mysteries*
19. carpenters*
20. merchants*

* = Challenge Words

Conventions: irregular plurals, verbs, and irregular verbs

Math: Continue Topic 4: Relating Multiplication to Division

Homework:Students have been progressing nicely on their one minute timed test.  Remember, it is imperative students study these at home for successful mastery of their multiplication facts.

-20 min. of nightly reading. Put on reading log/sign Due Friday

-Spelling words (according to Pretest brought home)

-Math fact practice (due next day)