Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 2/1-2/5}

• PARENTS: We value your input. Please help us make DPES better by completing our parent survey --> Link HERE
• Reading For Education: Your child brought home postcards last week. Please address and return the booklets. Each returned booklet = $5.50 for our school!
• ACT Aspire Dates: April 5-8 - PLEASE plan to have your child at school each day during this week.
• Eagle Idol Talent Show: April 28th, Grades 1-3 @ 5:00pm, Grades 4-6 @ 7:00pm - Tickets are $3.00, sold at the door
• Monday, February 8th: Cookie dough fundraiser begins
• Tuesday, February 9th: Progress Reports sent home - please sign and return
• Thursday, February 11th: 4th grade music programs & Parents as Partners meeting 
• Yearbook order forms due by February 29th - HERE is the link if you misplaced your form
• SCHOLASTIC BOOKS - Long onto the Scholastic book club website by clicking below. I encourage you to check out the books and possibly offer to purchase one for your child as a reward, incentive, etc. These are great, quality books at a terrific price! To order, simply click below!



Should you need our class activation code, it is: L7VRY


The more books YOU order, the more reward points our class earns to purchase new books for the classroom library. It's a win for all! :-)

PLANS

READING:

• Skill: Fact/Opinion
• Strategy: Questioning
• Vocabulary Skill: multiple meaning words - Context Clues
• Vocabulary Words: emancipation, wit, clerk, politics, quarrel, debt

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: Contractions
• Spelling Skill: suffixes -or, -er, -ist, -ess 
• Spelling Words: dentist, editor, artist, hostess, actress, swimmer, seller, tutor, tourist, organist, lioness, shipper, chemist, investor, conductor, announcer, pharmacist, journalist, commuter, pianist
• Writing:  Voice trait

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: Spelling HW assigned
• Tuesday:  grammar pg. 71 - if not completed in class
• Wednesday: Grammar pg. 72- if not completed in class, study for vocabulary quiz
• Thursday: Study for spelling test and DLR quiz
• tests today: Possessive Pronoun Test, Vocabulary Quiz (new words)
• Friday:  Tests today: DLR 22 Quiz, Spelling Test

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 1/25 - 1/29}

• PARENTS: We value your input. Please help us make DPES better by completing our parent survey --> Link HERE
• Tuesday, January 26th: Spirit Night @ McCallister's
• Tuesday, January 26th: 5th grade music programs
• Thursday, January 28th: 100th Day of School - more information to come
• Friday, January 29th: Winter Dance - grades 4-6
• Monday, February 8th: Cookie dough fundraiser begins
• Tuesday, February 9th: Progress Reports sent home
• Thursday, February 11th: 4th grade music programs & Parents as Partners meeting 
• Yearbook order forms due by February 29th - HERE is the link if you misplaced your form
• SCHOLASTIC BOOKS - Long onto the Scholastic book club website by clicking below. I encourage you to check out the books and possibly offer to purchase one for your child as a reward, incentive, etc. These are great, quality books at a terrific price! To order, simply click below!



Should you need our class activation code, it is: L7VRY


The more books YOU order, the more reward points our class earns to purchase new books for the classroom library. It's a win for all! :-)

PLANS

READING:

• Skill: Fact/Opinion
• Strategy: inferring
• Vocabulary Skill: multiple meaning words
• Vocabulary Words: 

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: possessive Pronouns
• Spelling Skill: prefixes pre-, mid-, over-, out-, bi-, 
• Spelling Words: prepaid, midnight, overflow, outdoors, outline, overgrown, prefix, Midwest, pretest, midpoint, outgoing, overtime, overdue, outside, outfield, precaution, prediction, midsection, overweight, prehistoric
• Writing:  Voice trait

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: Spelling HW assigned
• Tuesday:  grammar pg. 67 - if not completed in class
• Wednesday: Grammar pg. 68- if not completed in class, study for vocabulary quiz
• Thursday: Study for spelling test and DLR quiz
• tests today: Possessive Pronoun Test, Vocabulary Quiz (review and new words)
• Friday:  Tests today: DLR 20 Quiz, Spelling Test

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 1/19-1/22}

• PARENTS: We value your input. Please help us make DPES better by completing our parent survey --> Link HERE
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• Monday, January 18th: MLK Jr. Day - NO SCHOOL!
• Thursday, January 21st: Group Pictures
• Friday, January 22nd: Box Tops due - Please, please, please save and send in!
• Tuesday, January 26th: Spirit Night @ McCallister's
• Thursday, January 28th: 100th Day of School - more information to come
• Yearbook order forms due by February 29th - HERE is the link if you misplaced your form

PLANS

READING:

• Skill: Graphic sources
• Strategy: important ideas
• Vocabulary Skill: Dictionary/glossary
• Vocabulary Words: irritable, marshal, mob, integration, segregation

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: Subject and Object Pronouns
• Spelling Skill: r-controlled vowels
• Spelling Words: third, early, world, certain, dirty, herself, earth, word, perfect, verb, nerve, worm, thirsty, workout, earn, determine, commercial, whirlwind, worthwhile, virtual
• Writing:  Narrative writing prompt

ASSIGNMENTS

• Tuesday: Spelling HW assigned grammar pg. 65 - if not completed in class
• Wednesday: Grammar pg. 66- if not completed in class, 
• Thursday: Study for spelling test and DLR quiz
• tests today: Subject and Object Pronoun Test 
• Friday:  Tests today: DLR 19 Quiz, Spelling Test, Generalizations and Graphic Sources Test

• PARENTS: We value your input. Please help us make DPES better by completing our parent survey --> Link HERE

• Friday, January 15th - Honor Roll Street Dance party -snacks for sale $1/each
• Monday, January 18th: MLK Jr. Day - NO SCHOOL!
• Thursday, January 21st: Group Pictures
• Friday, January 22nd: Box Tops due
• Tuesday, January 26th: Spirit Night @ McCallister's
• Thursday, January 28th: 100th Day of School - more information to come
• Yearbook order forms due by February 29th - HERE is the link if you misplaced your form

PLANS

READING:

• Skill: Generalizations
• Strategy: Summary
• Vocabulary Skill: Context Clues
• Vocabulary Words: authority, delicate, etching, hexagonal, intricate, technique

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: Singular and Plural Pronouns
• Spelling Skill: Irregular plurals
• Spelling Words: wolves, knives, feet, men, children, women, sheetp, heroes, scarves, mice, geese, wives, elves, banjos, halves, loaves, beliefs, tomatoes, potatoes, tornadoes
• Writing:  Using Narrative rubrics to guide writing

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: Spelling HW assigned
• Tuesday: grammar pg. 61 - if not completed in class
• Wednesday: Grammar pg. 62- if not completed in class, study for vocabulary quiz
• Thursday: Study for spelling test and DLR quiz
• tests today: Singular and Plural Pronoun Test and Vocab Quiz
• Friday:  Tests today: DLR 19 Quiz and Spelling Test

Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 1/6-1/8}

Welcome back! I hope you all had a fun, restful, and relaxing break! During this second semester, we will really buckle down, both in academic work and our expectations of student responsibilities.

ANNOUNEMENTS

• PARENTS: We value your input. Please help us make DPES better by completing our parent survey --> Link HERE

• Friday, January 8th - AR Cart visits 1st - 3rd grade

• Friday, January 15th - Honor Roll Parties
• Monday, January 18th: MLK Jr. Day - NO SCHOOL!
• Thursday, January 28th: 100th Day of School - more information to come
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PLANS

• This week we will be reviewing Unit 3 Skills and taking the Unit 3 Test
• Comprehension Skills: Cause and Effect, Drawing Conclusions, Character/Setting/Plot, Graphic Sources, Generalizations
• Grammar Skills: Action and Linking Verbs, Main and Helping Verbs, Subject/Verb Agreement, Verb Tenses, Irregular Verbs, 
• Phonics Skills: j/k/s sounds, silent consonants, prefixes and suffixes, contractions
• Vocabulary Skills: Dictionary/Glossary, affixes, homophones, context clues

ASSIGNMENTS

• We will be working on our unit test each days this week