Sunday, May 9, 2010

The Week of May 10th...

LIFESKILL OF THE WEEK:

The lifeskill that we are working on this week is Caring.

SPELLING/READING
This week we will be reading the 28th story in our reading book, "Coming Home." The skill we will be focusing on is:

Fact or Opinion… A statement of fact tells something that can be proved true or false. A statement of opinion tells your ideas or feelings. It cannot be proved true or false, but it can be supported by facts and reasons. Sometimes statements of opinion begin with clues such as “I believe“.

The spelling words this week are words with the /k/ or /f/ sound. Usually the sound /k/ is spelled c, k, or ck: care, brake, track. The sound /f/ can be spelled ff, gh, or ph: stiff, laughed, photo. The words this week are: care, record, track, attack, giraffe, rough, dolphin, because, brake, pocket, stiff, enough, photo, elephant, cover, Kansas, snack, muffin, laughed, and alphabet. Spelling homework is to use the words in a compound sentence. The students should underline each spelling word. The Tuesday night homework is due on Wednesday. Please ask your child to practice their words each night. The vocabulary for this week is: dreamer, drifted, heroes, librarians, rusty, and tremble. The challenge vocabulary words are: haggle, preaching, theater, and Underground Railroad.

INVENTION CONVENTION
The students in C1 have been learning about inventors and how they use their creative skills to solve problems. We are currently discussing our Invention Convention. It is an event that gives students the opportunity to demonstrate their skills independently as they invent a new product. Students will be encouraged to identify a need or to solve a problem . Once a need or a problem has been identified, students will use problem-solving and creative-thinking skills to invent a product that would fill the need or overcome the problem. Some examples of student inventions are:

*a plastic product that holds a book while you eat
*a bird feeder that protects feed from wind and rain
*a device that prevents blisters from forming on hands when raking, shoveling, or sweeping
*a billfold that organizes money by denomination for blind people
They will create their product at home and complete the paper work at school. We will display the products at Weddle the evening of May 14th at the Art and Author’s Night.

Book Report
The May book report is a BIOGRAPHY. The students each have checked out their book from the library or gotten one from the classroom library and should be reading it each night. The book report is due May 31 (Monday).

A.A.I. means “ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN.” Each Monday I will send home a sheet that will tell you if your child is missing any work in each subject area. Please review it with them Monday night, sign it, and have them return it to class on Tuesday. Anything that is listed on that sheet needs to be completed at home or at recess. These students are on AAI this week:
Pedur, Liliana, Anthony, Daniel, Solomon, Audrey, Jordyn, Kayla, Larry, Joseph, Kahly, Casandra, Myjha, and  Parker