Weekly News: Ms. Lyon’s Class
Week of November 28 – December 2, 2011
Geez can you believe it is almost December??
Spelling Pattern: consonant sounds /j/ spelled ge and dge and /k/ spelled ck and k.
clock | large | page |
mark | kitten | judge |
crack | edge | pocket |
brake | change | ridge |
jacket | badge | orange |
Challenge Words: (extra points)
freckles | advantage | pledge | Kentucky | kingdom |
Math: We will be finishing up with chapter 5 test on Monday. I am working with a few students on the test while others are working on solving words problems on their own. We will be starting chapter 6 this week and I expect it to take us until Winter break. Chapter 6 is multiplication with 6, 7, 8 and 9! We are doing a mad minute daily to help with our addition and subtraction fluency.
Reading: Thank you so much for your support of our play, Pushing Up the Sky this week. We had a great time doing it and the students did really well with it. This week we will be reading Night Letters a realistic fiction story focusing on asking and answering questions about a story.
Writing: We are continuing our informational piece this week with learning how to gather information from different sources on the internet. This piece will take us about a month to complete.
Social Studies: Science Unit.
Science: We are working on learning about Fossils this week.
Class News:
Check out our website http://www.mslyonspride.blogspot.com/
Try out our spelling words this week on spelling city: http://www.spellingcity.com/LyonsPride/ - This week’s spelling is week 15
**I will be sending home a release to publish the video of Pushing Up the Sky on a private youtube channel, this means only the people who have the URL can access it, it cannot be searched!!
Book-it! – We will end this month on Wednesday! The goal is to read 225 minutes by 12/1. If you reach or exceed this goal, your student will receive a coupon for a FREE personal pan pizza from pizza hut. Students that complete the book it program 4 out of the 5 months will get to enjoy a pizza party with me in April! If you do not have a November reading calendar, please let me know, I have extra copies!
Can Food Drive – OUR CLASS WON second place! Great work!
School News:
Box top competition is going on now, please send in any box tops to help our class!
Book Fair – 11/28-12/2
Family Fun Night – 12/2 from 6pm-8pm
Book Fair online at scholastic.com/schoolbookfairs all orders ship free to the school!
Holiday Break starts 12/22 – Our holiday party will be on 12/21 in the afternoon. We will be decorating sugar cookies, making ornaments and watch a Holiday movie. Please stay tuned for more information.
As always, thank you for being so supportive!
