SPELLING ENRICHMENT

We will be having a class spelling bee coming up in the future. Winners will compete against other classes. The winners of Glenwood will then compete against other schools in Enid. Enrichment words from now on will mostly consist of words that come from the Spelling Bee Study Guide. This will help provide some good practice if your child is interested in competing! This week we will have "a" words.

abdicate abhor accentuate acclamation accumulate acknowledge adjacent advocate aggravate algae amnesia anchovy apathy arctic audience

Week of 11/26/07

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! My family sure did! Here is what's ahead for this week:

Math: Multiplication- station rotations and timed tests
English: Pronouns, prepositions, daily language review
Reading: Owls in the Family Literature Unit
Spelling: Owls in the Family Vocabulary words
Social Studies: Coastal Indians, George Washington, American Revolution- Boston Tea Party
Spanish: Test on Wednesday - I sent home a review page for this unit today.

Don't forget to do your 100 minutes of reading homework and fluency book this week. We will have reading homework for 2 more weeks after this week. Then we will take a break until after Christmas.

Polar Pajama Day is coming up on Tuesday, December 18th. I will need parent volunteers for polar stations. Our stations will be from 8:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. If you can help with running a station, please comment or send me a note. Thanks a lot!!

The 2 days of this week!!! 11/19 & 11/20

Thanks to all who sent food/drink donations for our Cowboy/girl day! It was a fun day.

These 2 days will be fun too! We will do some Thanksgiving work, such as a simulation activity of the first Thanksgiving, as well as learn some other historical information about that time period. We will have a bedlam day on Tuesday!! So kids, wear your crimson, .......................okay, you can wear orange too. On bedlam day, we will graph whether we are more OU or OSU! We will also learn about the history of football and make a "turkey gobbler touchdown noise maker"!! It will also be payday on Tuesday! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!! Practice your times tables and be ready for speed tests when we get back from break!!


GO SOONERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Centennial Day Donations!

So far we have marshmellows, pretzels, M&M's, peanut butter chips, Cheerios, gingerale, and green punch! Thanks so much to all who have donated. We could probably use one more punch, and one more gingerale, if anyone else wants to send something. Thanks again!!

Week of 11/12/07

Thanks Rhonda and Lori for donating food/drink items for our Centennial Celebration!! If anyone else can help out, please post a message or send me a note to school telling what you can donate, so that we can figure out what we have and don't have. Centennial Day should be lots of fun!

This week:

Math: We are starting multiplication! We will first start out practicing the basic facts and taking timed tests, then we will move on to big multiplication problems. Please practice, practice, practice at home with your child. I can't tell you enough how important knowing the times tables are. It is the foundation of so many math concepts ahead, both in 4th grade and beyond!

Spelling: Thanksgiving vocabulary words

Reading: We will begin our owl unit this week. Remember: NO 100 minutes/Fluency Book Reading homework this week. I am giving the children this week off because they have a book project due next Monday, Nov. 19. They should have a list of 12 options to choose from.

Science/Art: Leaves are due Tuesday. We will learn some information about leaves and why they change colors, as well as do a leaf art project.

Social Studies: We will begin our study of the United States. We will begin with the northeast region. This week, we will mostly talk about the geography of the USA, what states make up the northeast, the 13 colonies, and William Bradford.

English: Pronouns

***Remember*** The last day I will accept money for the Christmas Present project is Tuesday.

Oklahoma Centennial!

Next Friday, November 16th, is Oklahoma's 100th Birthday! I thought it would be a lot of fun if we had a cowboy day that day! We will do many activities centered around cowboys and the Wild West! I encourage the kids to wear western wear that day. Please also help me out if you can with a donation of a food/drink item. I thought we could have cactus juice and trail mix! If you could donate a trail mix item of M&M's, peanuts, mini marshmellows, pretzels, peanut butter chips, cheerios, etc., or green Hawaiian punch or ginger ale, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!!

SPELLING ENRICHMENT

saunter subtle perish valiantly variegated obliged assortment menacing
ascent scholarly flourish disregard mussed obsequious gnawed

These are vocabulary words that came from the children's independent books. They can look up the words and write the definitions of them for bonus money.

Week of 11/5/07

This week we will finish up our geology unit with a test on Wednesday. I will send home a study guide on Monday. In math, we will take a test on graphs on Monday, and then we will study mean, median, mode, and range the rest of the week. This is fun math! Spelling will cover sounds of "i" words. In English, we will look at adverbs. This week the children need to finish their independent books and work. They have been doing very well with this and moving at a steady pace. A couple have already finished their books and work! They will get to start on their book project early. I am cutting reading homework this week to 50 minutes. I am doing this because I am assigning a science homework assignment. I hope you will spend some time with your child on this assignment. It involves a leaf hunt! Have you noticed the beautiful changing leaves on the trees lately? There are various shades of greens, yellows, reds, oranges, and browns. Each year, one of mine and my students favorite art projects involves leaves! Please go on a fun leaf hunt on a pretty afternoon and find some neat leaves. Look for various colors, shapes, and sizes. The more variety, the better! After you have gathered around 15 to 20 leaves, follow the directions below on how to press them. The leaves are due on November 13th.

Directions: Clean the leaves you've collected by soaking them in a bowl of warm water for a few minutes. Blot them dry between 2 paper towels. Then place the leaves on 2 pieces of newspaper. Take care that the leaves do not touch each other, because the parts that overlap will not dry properly. You may also want to trim any stems that are particularly thick. Cover the leaves with another two pieces of newspaper and put something heavy on top. Dictionaries work well. It will take about 5 or 6 days for the leaves to be ready to work with. By then they should be flat, stiff, and dry.

Don't waste time, and get going on your leaf hunt as soon as possible so that your leaves will be ready by next Tuesday.

Remember that the Christmas present money is due this Tuesday, November 6th. ($6.50)

PUMPKIN DAY!