Plays of Week #14

Reminders for the Upcoming Week

Monday 11/17 = Chapter 4 Math Test and New spelling words get sent home

Tuesday 11/18 = Library Check-out

Thursday 11/20 = Chili Supper

Friday 11/21 = Spelling Test

Reading = We began our Unit #4 this past week where we are looking at the structure of stories we read: character, setting, and plot.  We looked at the books Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco and the Princess and the Pizza by Mary Jane Auch.  This week we continue to look at the Princess and the Pizza as well as Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco.

Writing = Early this week we are going to wrap up our unit of looking at the six traits of writing.  What are the six traits? 1. Ideas 2. Organization 3.Voice 4. Conventions  5. Sentence Fluency and 6. Word Choice.  Then we will begin our next writing unit which will be a "Real Narrative"  which is a about a time in their life.

Math =  We reviewed at the end of last week and we will be testing over Chapter 4 on Monday.  Please have Team Meyer practice multiplication facts at home as well as look over the practice test we did on Friday.  On Tuesday, we will begin to turn our focus on Chapter 5 - Multiply with Two-digit Numbers.  We will be multiplying by 10s, estimating, using the distributive property and partial products with two-digit numbers.  This is a shorter chapter than the ones we have been working in lately so we will most likely be testing shortly after Thanksgiving break.

Spelling = New lists will be sent home on Monday and we plan on testing on Friday.

Content = Social Studies - Later last week, we began to look at Missouri's Government.  We thought about the three branches of government within it and compared it to the United States of America.  This week we will look at amendments, the Bill of Rights, and compare the government to the way our school and community works.

Highlights of the Week

Parkview Cares came for a visit on Thursday to help out with Team Portland and Team Meyer!  They were a huge help and were even related to our teammates :)

Ms. Dutton helped us think through Story Elements within our Reading Unit.  She helped us she the sequence in the Plot for our stories we are reading.