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tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><strong>READING:</strong></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We'll be starting narrative book groups this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Students will be placed in one of four different reading groups for the rest of this nine weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Books we'll be reading include:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><u>Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing</u>, <u>Island of the Blue Dolphins</u>, <u>Skinny Bones</u>, and <u>Frindle</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is extremely important that students keep up with their reading assignments and homework NIGHTLY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Within book groups, students will work on specific reading strategies, including cause & effect relationships, sequencing, self-questioning strategies, making inferences and predictions, analysis of character traits, and story elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><strong>SPELLING:</strong></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""> Students will be working on Word Sort #14, which focuses on spelling patterns for the <em>-le, -el, -il, </em></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed"">and <em>-al</em></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""> words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Spelling lists were taped into each child's planner on Monday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please make sure students are following their nightly spelling homework assignments.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><strong>WRITING:</strong></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""> In writing we'll be beginning a study of writing realistic short stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Although short stories may only be 1-2 pages in length, they do include a clear beginning, middle, and end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Similar to the realistic fiction we've studied in class, our short stories will include clear characters, setting, problems, and solutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We'll work on identifying the traits of good realistic short stories and then begin to brainstorm ideas for our own short stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><strong>GRAMMAR:</strong></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Students will study possessive nouns this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We'll only be spending a few days on this skill, but we'll examine the spelling patterns for singular and plural possessive nouns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><strong>SCIENCE:</strong></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""> In science, students will finish their unit on Fire Safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The field trip prior to the Thanksgiving Break to the Cobb Fire Safety Village was both fun and informative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Students will be reviewing what they learned during this unit with our Fire Fighter on Wednesday and will then take a summative post-test over the material.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This post-test will count as a major part of this quarter's Health grade, so please help students prepare and study Monday and Tuesday night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><strong>SOCIAL STUDIES:</strong></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""> Students will continue their study of early colonies this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We'll spend Monday reviewing what we learned about Jamestown, Roanoke, and Plymouth before the break.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We'll then move into an investigation of how geography and climate affected the lives of colonists in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial regions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We will then focus on life in the New England colonies.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><strong>MATH:</strong></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We will focus on classifying triangles this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There are two different ways to sort or classify triangles 1.) by their sides (equilateral, scalene, isosceles) and 2.) by their angles (acute, right, and obtuse).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Students will be practicing how to sort and classify triangles all week, but keep practicing those multiplication and division facts nightly!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed";text-transform: uppercase"><strong><u>Additional Class News:</u></strong></span><span style="font-family: "Futura Condensed""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops:list .75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Futura Condensed"">Jingle Jog Participation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please remember to register for the Jingle Jog--which is THIS Saturday, December 5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We want EVERYONE to support the PE Department so we can earn a 100% registration participation party!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We would love to see you ALL there jogging together!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ms. Agnew and Ms. Mattocks will both be there to see all our favorite runners and walkers Saturday morning!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings; 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