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Mrs. Thrailkill’s News Academic

Vocabulary(This section you will find some academic vocabulary we will be studying this week)

Math: place, value, standard, word, expanded form, tens, ones, hundreds, thousands, greater than, less than, equal to, skip counting, adding Social Studies: contribute, James Oglethorpe, Savannah, hero, city,

August 17th, 2015Weekly Homework Read at least 20 minutes every night.

Reading logs are due Monday, September 28th. Please make sure that your child’s first and last name appears on the log! This log will be due after break. You may turn the reading log in on Friday if you would like!

(TAG) Creativity Enrichment: draw a top hat and turn it into a picture disguising it. Write a short paragraph about how you disguised the picture. Enrichment due on Fridays.

Book Clubs: Please check your child’s book bag for book club homework. It varies per book club.

I ask that you please check the agenda daily.

Specials Rotation (9/14-9/18)Monday Reading Lab Tuesday Computer Lab WednesdayLibrary (book fair buying) Thursday PE (wear tennis shoes)Friday Music

This week in: Word Study: vowel teams ee, ea, oa, and ayMentor Sentence – This week we will be focusing on facts to convey information.Language Arts Skills- Capitalization, punctuation, and types of sentences.Reading Workshop- we will finish our unit of study on informational text features (captions, glossary, index, fact boxes, headings, table of contents, bold print words)*Book Clubs are up and running. Please check your child’s book club folder for their homework.Writing Workshop- continuing working on informational writing. Topic of focus is James Oglethorpe or an animal of their choice. Math Workshop- begin work on adding 2 digit numbers with missing addends. Ex} 23+___=43Social Studies-Who was Tomochichi? What was his contribution to Savannah?

Important Dates*Chick-fli-a Spirit Night: Tuesday, Sept. 15th

*BookFair Buying is Wednesday, Sept. 16th

*Caps for Cure (benefits Relay for Life) Friday Sept 18th. Bring a dollar to wear a hat.

Leader in ME CornerThis week’s focus will be on Habit 5: See first to understand, then to be understood. We will work on listening, body language and the way our tone in our voice reflects are thoughts and feelings and how it affects others.

This week’s DoJo Goal is: 40 total!!!!!

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