Week of 8/21 - 8/25

Water Lilies Bridge by Claude Monet

Welcome to our third week of school!  We continue to grow as a classroom and build a community of learners where our school's virtues and standards of learning are raised high!

This week we will begin memorizing The Tie Rises the Tide Falls  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  I am excited to begin the memorization of these beautiful words as a class.  If your scholar does not have The Harp and Laurel Wreath at school, please send it in this week.  Recitation of this poem will be on Friday, September 1.

This week we in Spalding will continue adding foundational "Rule Pages" to our Spalding notebooks.  Please help your scholar with Spalding homework each night.  Spalding words should always be dictated for your student to write and never simply copied.  Spalding work must always be written in cursive.  Please encourage your scholar to practice forming beautiful letters and words. We will have a spelling and phonogram test on Friday, August 18.

In math we will finish our unit on rounding.  There will be a quiz on Wednesday and math test on Thursday. 

Grammar this week will continue to focus on nouns.  In writing we will continue to formulate summaries focusing on plot, character, setting, and main events.

We very much enjoyed reading The Trumpet of the Swan last week in literature and will continue reading this week.  We will have a quiz over Chapters 1-8 on Friday.

On Monday we will enjoy a science lesson on Solar Eclipses prior to viewing the NASA live stream of the solar eclipse in class.

History this week will finish our study of World Geography.  There will be a test on Friday.

This Week:
August 24:  6:00 - 7:00 grades 3-5 Curriculum night

A Look Ahead:
September 4: No School
September 8: Picture Day