Week 14- November 13-November 16

I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend! Don't forget that it's concert week! It will be at Higley Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday November 14^th.  Students’ attire for our performances is NOT school uniform. 

                 -Gentlemen are expected to wear a plain white dress shirt, black pants,       black socks and black closed toed shoes. Solid dark colored vests and ties are optional for gentlemen. 

               -Ladies are expected to wear a white top, black skirt, black tights and black closed toed shoes. 

Please have your kindergartners at Higley Center for the Performing Arts by 4:45pm.

Congratulations to our October Virtue Award Winner! Claire, thanks for
being a great example of the virtue of Honesty.  

Happy 6th Birthday to Kiersen!

Spalding: 

Last week we learned the Er’s (er, ir, ur, wor, ear). In order to tell these phonograms apart we use our cues and the sentence “Her first nurse works early.” We will spend this week reviewing the er’s and learning two partner phonograms ai/ay and oi/oy. 

Sight Words: 

We will continue to review list 3. These words should reviewed each night during reading time with your child. 

Literature: We will explore King Midas and the Golden Touch in Literature this week.  We will read the story and discuss the characters, setting, and plot.  It’s a good idea to ask these questions of your child while reading their books at home, too.  We will discuss the consequences of being greedy by comparing King Midas and the book “The Magic Fish.” Old King Cole will be our poem.

Math: We will continue our unit on size.  We will be measuring items, using vocabulary like “bigger, smaller, longer, shorter”.  On Friday, we will have an assessment on length and size.

History: We will continue to learn about the events that lead to the First Thanksgiving. Students will learn that the Mayflower was a large ship that the pilgrims rode to this new land. We will talk about the Native people, the Wampanoag who helped the pilgrims survive. Later in the week we will learn all about the Wright Brothers and their invention of flight! Our kiddos will get to practice perseverance and make their own flying paper airplanes.