Friday, August 31, 2012

Newsletter Week 4 9/3-9/7

This coming Friday, 9/7/2012 is our unit performance. It will be held right after school at 1:45 p.m. Children are to wear their uniforms. 

Math: In math we will continue doing place-value and number sense of 4 digit numbers. We will have a test Monday, 9/10/12.

Reading: On Tuesday, 9/4/12 we will have our multiple choice comprehensive test over "Summer of the Sea Serpent." 

Language Arts- We will keep learning about verbs, helping verbs and modal verbs since we did not get to study them as much as needed due to the storms.

Social Studies- We will study U.S. symbols and their meanings.

Spelling and Vocabulary:


Spelling words and sentences:
  • things
  • our
  • just
  • girl
  • dirt
  • shirt
  • third
  • thirst
  • birth
  • produce
  • The girl got dirt on her shirt and had to change. 
  • He has the strength to push the big car out of the way. 
Vocabulary Words and Definitions 
  • appearance- the way something or someone looks
  • attempt- to try to do something
  • blame- to claim someone or something is responsible for it; it is someone/something's fault
  • clever- smart; intelligent 
  • consider- to think of someone or something else
  • destroy- to ruin something completely, to make something worthless and broken 
  • govern- to rule
  • mount- to get on something
  • pleasure- to be happy about something
  • squirm- to wiggle or move around  

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