November 12 - 16

Reading Skill: Author's Purpose (P.I.E. - Persuade, Inform, Entertain)

Reading Story: Pushing Up the Sky (Test Friday)

Language:  Helping  Verbs (Test Friday)  We will be learning about main and helping verbs.  The main verb shows action.  A helping verb shows the time of the action. Examples: 
-She will talk to you. (will is the helping verb that tells that the action (talk) will happen in the future)
-She is talking to you. (is is the helping verb that tells that the action is happening right now in the present tense.  "-ing" and "-s" are often needed at the end of action verbs to show that the action is happening right now.)
-She has talked to you. (has is the helping verb that tells that the action happened in the past.  An "-ed" was added to the end of the main verb which also shows past tense.
-Because helping verbs are hard for children to identify, we're singing this song in class: (sung to the tune of "Jingle Bells.")

Helping Verbs! Helping Verbs!

There are 23...

am, is, are! was and were! being, been and be!

have, has, had! do, does, did!

shall, should, will, and would!

There are 5 more helping verbs:

may, might, must, can, could!

Spelling: (Test Friday) Our spelling words will be words with prefixes un, re, mis, and dis.  The spelling words are: unhappy, recall, disappear, unload, mistake, misspell, dislike, replace, mislead, disagree, rewrite, unroll, unknown, dishonest, react.  The challenge words are: unfortunate, discourage, uncomfortable, recycle, mispronounce.

Math: Topic 6: Multiplication  PLEASE START HAVING MULTIPLICATION DRILLS NIGHTLY.  Your child should know 0s, 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, and 10s.  There are many different strategies that can be used in order to figure out the product of a multiplication problem, however, the fastest way is to memorize them. :)

Science: Types of Environments, Adaptations, and Populations

Homework:
Monday: Read AR and complete reading log. Study multiplication facts.
Tuesday: Read Pushing Up the Sky and complete reading log - Due Thursday. Study multiplication facts.
Wednesday: Study multiplication facts.
Thursday: Read AR for 20 minutes complete reading log. Study for tests. Study multiplication facts.

Dates to Remember:
November 22 & 23: Thanksgiving Break