Friday, November 6, 2015

November 6, 2015

Important Dates
Nov 9-13 - BOOK FAIR!
Tuesday, November 10 - Veteran’s Day Assembly
Wednesday, November 11 - Veteran’s Day Lunch
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What Are We Learning?
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Reading
Fiction vs. Nonfiction
Nonfiction Text Features
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Language
Writing and identifying complete sentences
Prefixes un- re- and pre-
The best practice is to read with your child and find words that have those prefixes and identify the types of sentences that you are reading as a family.

Practice Links
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Math
On Tuesday we will be testing out of
Then starting our next unit:
We will focus our attention first on “Time”
Begin talking with your child about how long it takes to complete activities. Discuss start times and stop times. Use different strategies to figure out how much time elapsed between those times. Use stop watches! Introduce both analog and digital clocks.

While we are working on this new unit, we will also begin practicing our multiplication fluency. Students will start taking timed multiplication tests on facts 0-10. We recommend making flash cards and using different online resources to practice, practice, practice!

Practice Links
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Social Studies
Native Americans in South Carolina: Cherokee, Catawba, and Yemassee
This is Chapter 3 in our textbook.  Students must be able to identify the characteristics of each tribe including culture, government, and daily life.

After Native Americans we will begin our new unit on Explorers, specifically those explorers who traveled and explored South Carolina.

Practice Links

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Science
Finishing up Animal and Plant Adaptations
Starting our new unit on Food Chains

Practice Links
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Report Cards!
Report cards went home yesterday. Please sign and return the envelope. You may keep everything inside the envelope.
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For the 2015-16 academic year, The State will post online nine weeks’ honor rolls for elementary, middle and high schools students for the first nine weeks during Thanksgiving week.
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