Weekly News: Ms. Lyon’s Class
Week of December 5 - 9, 2011
Spelling Pattern: suffixes –ly, -ful, -ness, -less
beautiful | safely | kindness |
finally | spotless | worthless |
illness | helpful | daily |
suddenly | wireless | quietly |
fairness | cheerful | painful |
Challenge Words: (extra points)
anxiously | thoughtfully | cautiously | tardiness | breathless |
Math: 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: This week we are reading a Symphony of Whales. This is a fiction story about a little girl who saves a group of beluga whales. We will be working on describing characters using evidence from the text.
Writing: We are continuing our informational piece this week with learning how to gather information from different sources on the internet and from books. This piece will take us about a month to complete.
Social Studies: We are learning about different cultures. Please talk to your student about where your ancestors immigrated from if you know!
Science: Social Studies Unit.
Class News:
· Book Club: Are you looking for Christmas presents for your child? Have you considered books? I have an online ordering set up that will help you find books that are on your child’s reading level. Ordering online will also earn our class free books! I have sent home an order form with your student; please return the orders by 12/14 so I can ensure we get our books in on time. If you are ordering for presents, let me know and I can hide your orders from your child! To order online, please visit http://clubs.scholastic.com/ . Our class activation code is GW3NC
· 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 16
· Book-it! – We started clean on December 1! The goal is to read 250 minutes by 1/3 (When we return from break). 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 December reading calendar, please let me know, I have extra copies!
· Box Tops - Box top competition is going on now, please send in any box tops to help our class!
School News:
· HOP will begin next month. Please see attached for more information.
· Santa Shoppe will be next Thursday and Friday – See attached.
· 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.
· The Southgate Educational Foundation spaghetti dinner will be February 3rd. I have attached the flyer as a “Save the Date” for you. Please make time to help the education foundation and eat a wonderful spaghetti dinner catered by Pompellios!!
As always, thank you for being so supportive!
**If you would like to receive information via a different email, please email me at ellen.lyon@southgate.kyschools.us**
