Weekly Update for 11/19/12

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“The ABC’s of Thanksgiving”

We will be performing our first play of the school year, “The ABC’s of Thanksgiving” on Wednesday, November 21 at 10:00.  We will present our play along with several seasonal songs.  Any family/friends are welcome to join us in this special celebration.  Following our performance you are more than welcome to take your child for an early dismissal.  

      

What are we learning this week?

Reading Story: Thanksgiving Story

Skill:  Main Idea 

Strategy: Summarizing

Phonics Skill:  -ess, -ell, iss, and -ill word families

Language Skill:  adding -s to make plurals

Math: Fractions

Social Studies:  Past and Present

              Weekly Schedule

*Monday, November 19          Art      

*Tuesday, November 20         P.E.

*Wednesday, November 21     Library

Performance of "The ABC's of Thanksgiving" @ 10:00

Early Release @ 2:20

*Thursday, November 22        Thanksgiving

No School    

*Friday, November 23             

No School

                Weekly Sight Words

These words are a review of words the students are still struggling with and/or words they are confusing in their writing.

they                  push

went                 want

eat                   says

ate                   was

away                 these

   Weekly Vocabulary Words

These words must be read, but not spelled.
Pilgrim              blessings
Indian               voyage
Indian               harvest
Squanto             share
thankful            crops
New World         Atlantic Ocean