For December 4th

Please bring your red folder to class each week!  Thanks!

The kids will have a Christmas party during our lunch time on December 11th! We will have a cheese pizza and a pepperoni pizza.  Feel free to bring in sides and treats to share!

Grammar 

• Study your grammar cards! 
• PLEASE bring these to class every week... and don't lose them!
• Try this game.  You'll need to decide whether a word in the sentence is an adverb or an adjective.  Just remember, adjectives describe nouns or pronouns and adverbs describe verbs.  (Adverbs can also describe adjectives and other adverbs, but we're not worries about those right now!)

Poetry

• Click at the link at the top of the page to begin studying our new poem!  (It's a short one!)

Science

• Watch the following video.
• Then, either draw pictures or write about how a seed grows.  Put this in your red folder to bring to class!

Handwriting 

• Complete pages 39-41 by Monday. (NOT all on the same day!)
• Take it slow and do your best!  Look back at any notes I've made to see how to improve!

Journal-

• Be sure that you studied adjectives and adverbs.
• Now, write ANY story that you'd like.  It can be a made-up story (fiction) or a real story (non-fiction).  Just be sure to add adjectives and adverbs to make it very descriptive!

History-

• Complete your "Words to Know" activity.
• Cut out the words and the picture squares.
• Glue them to your words to know page.  
• Reread your new packet and think about these words in bold.  What do they mean?
• Write short definitions under the flap for each word.
• You can color it if you'd like!
• PLEASE bring the reading packet and the Words to Know page back to class so we can add it to the pocket for your Plymouth Colony Booklet!
• OPTIONAL ENRICHMENT-
• Here are some resources if you'd like to learn more about Squanto and Somaset.
• Social Studies for Kids- Squanto
• Social Studies for Kids - Samoset
• Ducksters' Squanto Biography
• Kids Britannica

Things to do by 11/20

Please bring your red folder to class each week!  Thanks!

Grammar 

• Study your grammar cards! 
• PLEASE bring these to class every week... and don't lose them!

Poetry

• Click at the link at the top of the page to begin studying our new poem!  (It's a short one!)

Science

• Show your motion, forces, and energy booklet to your parents and tell them about your experiments.
• OPTIONAL ENRICHMENT-
• Check out these websites to learn more about this week's topic!
• Friction
• Force
• Laws of Motion

Handwriting 

• Complete pages 36-38 by Monday.
• Take it slow and do your best! 

Journal-

• Write any type of Thanksgiving story you'd like!  Gobble, gobble!

History-

• Complete your "Words to Know" activity.
• Cut out the words and the picture squares.
• Glue them to your words to know page.  
• Reread your packet and think about these words in bold.  What do they mean?
• Write short definitions under the flap for each word.
• You can color it if you'd like!
• PLEASE bring the reading packet and the Words to Know page back to class so we can add it to the pocket for your Plymouth Colony Booklet!
• OPTIONAL ENRICHMENT-
• Click here and read all about what the Mayflower was like.
• Color your Mayflower ship that we worked on in class.
• Bring it back to class and we will put it in the pocket in your Plymouth Colony Book!

To Be Completed by 11/13/17

Grammar 

• Study your grammar cards! 
• PLEASE bring these to class every week... and don't lose them!
• Those state of being verbs that you memorized can also act like linking verbs.  They can link a noun or pronoun with an adjective (example - "It is beautiful." "They were hungry."  "The cow was loud.")

Poetry

• Some kids were ready to record their poem in class, but some are still working on it!  We will record the rest next week!

Science

• Watch this video for Monday's class!

Handwriting 

• Look at page 31 that we did in class.  I'd like for all of your pages to look this great!
• Complete pages 32-34 by Monday.

Journal-

• Imagine that you are a Pilgrim, deciding to make the voyage to the New World. 
• Either write a letter to a friend explaining why you are going and what you think the trip will be like OR write a story about it, instead!

History-

• Read through your reading packet and discuss it with your parents.  Please bring it back to class!  We will need it!
• Watch this video!
• This is America Charlie Brown- The Mayflower Voyagers from LifeMission Church on Vimeo.

OPTIONAL---

• We learned about Georges Seurat in art class.  Here is a video if you'd like to learn more!