Gonzales Weekly 11/05

Welcome to the last week before mid-quarter!

Please remember that next Monday is Veteran's Day and there is no school!  Starting next week, LPA will be doing a penny war to raise money for schools affected by Hurricane Sandy.  Save your spare change, because anything you can give will help!

Mid-quarter grades will come out next Tuesday.  Make sure your child is doing their homework every night!  At conferences, I made sure to emphasize just how important homework was to their grades.

Again, please do not hesitate to call or email me if you have any concerns going on in the class.

In math, we will do a review of what we have learned so far with fractions and then begin to compare them to decimals and percentages.  In reading, we will continue to read Esperanza Rising.  There will be an emphasis on finding the main idea in each paragraph.  In writing, we will work on different verb tenses and also keep our word counts up for NaNoWriMo (remember, if your child writes 15,000 words by November 30^th in a story, they will receive an automatic A in writing, an enriched curriculum status, and a pizza party at the start of December)!  In social studies, we will begin learning about the American Revolution.

Spelling words this week:

1.      mirror

2.      powder

3.      humor

4.      major

5.      thunder

6.      flavor

7.      mayor

8.      clover

9.      burglar

10.  matter

11.  quarter

12.  clamor

13.  tremor

14.  scholar

15.  chamber

16.  kneel

17.  knuckle

18.  kettle

19.  knapsack

20.  knowledge

Have a great week!

Ms. Gonzales

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