Upcoming Week 11/18-11/22

For just a four day week, last week felt longer than normal. We took STAR reading and math tests last week. Hopefully your student brought home his or her scores on them. Overall, the kids did great on the assessments and almost everyone made progress in both areas. Our literacy this week will span over the course of this week and the next, due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Here's what's coming up.

Important Dates:

• Thursday - PTA meeting in the Eastgate library
• November 28-29 - No School - Thanksgiving holiday break

Curriculum Coming Up:

Reading

• Conclusions
• Using Commas
• Silent letters kn, wr
• Unexpected Consonant Spellings

Writing

• Publishing Character Analysis
• Continue learning about paragraphs

Math

• Building Fluency with 5s, 2s, 10s, 9s, 3s, 4s, 1 and 0
• Multiply and Divide with 1 and 0
• Solve and Create Word Problems

      *Note - Please help your student practice multiplication facts often - every day is best.

Social Studies

• Scale
• Cardinal Directions
• Finding Landmarks on a US map

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Time is going by so quickly and I really want it to slow down so I can enjoy the kiddos! They are so great and I just adore them!