Week 3, Second Nine Weeks

This week is Red Ribbon Week which means we are reminding kids to live healthy life-styles and stay drug free.  Each day has a different theme and you should receive text messages to remind you about how your child should dress the next day.  Tuesday, the high school peer helpers will be here to teach the kids more about making good choices.

Reading: This week we will be doing a variety of reading activities that all have a little "Halloween spirit" involved.  We will be trying to make sense of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" as well as reading The Spider and the Fly and determining who's fault it is that the Fly was eaten.  On Halloween we will read an unsolved mystery from history about the Salem Witch Trials and let the students draw their own conclusions about what really happened.

Language: We are now discussing what it takes to make a complete sentence. We are talking about subject and predicate.  School House Rock is still a great teaching tool.  Treat yourself to this wonderful video about subjects and predicates:

Math: The students will be investigating multiplication this week by looking at multiplication tables and patterns that appear on them as well as investigating prime, composite and square numbers.  Students should be practicing their multiplication facts.  There are lots of wonderful apps out there to help with this: Times Table, HyperBlast, Mad Math, Match-Up, Code Squad, Math Slicer and Factor Pop!  

Science: We are learning more about how the ear works this week and will have our test on Thursday.

Alabama History: We will be continuing (and hopefully finishing) our discussions about the explorers as well as the French and Indian War.