It is Red Ribbon Week! Each evening you will be getting a text from Remind 101 about what your child should wear the next day. Each day has something to do with being healthy!
The kids are enjoying selling the Owl Update each morning and looking very forward to the 4th Grade Store that we will have on Friday morning!
Reading: This week we are focusing again on making inferences about characters based on their actions, words and thoughts. Talk with your child about the book he/she is reading and see if he/she can think "deeper" about the characters. Many of our vocabulary words coincide with the story about the collage artist that we read today. The words for the week are: studio, smeared, glorious, model, ruined, streak, concerned, yanked, feast, and schedule. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Friday.
Spelling: We are focusing on words with the " 'ow' that hurts" sound and the " 'aw' that's cute" sounds.
Math: The fact focus this week is on the number 8. We are almost through the times tables, but some of the hardest ones are yet to come: 7 and 12! We have started talking about multiplication; we started by reading a fun story about Amanda Bean. Ask your child to tell you more about what this young girl learned about multiplication. Our focus this week will be on arrays.
Language: The students will be learning all about pronouns and possessives this week. There will be a quiz on these early next week.
AL History: We are continuing to discuss those first people in Alabama and what life was like for them.
Science: Our focus has been on the parts of the ear and how the ear works. Today, we had a real treat as Mrs. Mooresmith, a first grade teacher, came to tell us more about her daughter's cochlear implant. We learned more about how the ear works and how scientists have been able to give people born with significant hearing loss, the ability to hear. On Friday, the students will have a test on the ear. They will need to be able to label major parts of the ear such as the pinna (outer ear), ear canal, eardrum, the middle ear (made up of the three smallest bones in your body), cochlea and the Eustachian tube. They will also need to be able to explain how sound moves through the ear and how our brains help to interpret the sound. Instruments, along with the written information, are due on Thursday!
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