Forty-Ninth Day

Yesterday we read and recorded our speeches for the office of Room 11 Class President. A total of 7 candidates ran for office. Those 7 students will receive Home Project credit. Today we chose our Class President by secret ballot. Those students who delivered a speech yesterday have a copy of the ballot for their memoirs.

It is highly likely we will not be taking a test for Topic 8 in math.

Unit 2 Week 4 Preview

Continuing our exploration of families and neighbors, we ask the question: what is a home? Our vocabulary words for the week are: collapse, company, construct, entire, and material. Our high-frequency focus words are: again, could, make, one, then, and three. For spelling we will focus on short-vowel 'u'. Our grammar rule will be proper nouns and capitalization.

Tuesday we will read our class president speeches and Wednesday we will vote. I will send home a copy of our voting ballot with those children making speeches. This is one of those documents you might consider scanning to your child's flash drive.

Last week, 22 of 24 students passed the district quarterly math exam. Two students passed with perfect scores.

Week Preview and Home Project Idea

The last instructional segment of our unit on All About Us will center on what we like to do with friends. Our robust vocabulary words include: focused, offer, charity, admire, and challenging. In phonics we will focus on final consonant blends ('-nd', '-st', '-ng', and '-nk'). In social studies, we will also discuss symbols of the United States. In science we will continue our work with forms of matter.

Election day will soon be upon us and in order to mark this date (Nov. 8th) we will be holding our very own election for class president complete with speeches. If your child is interested in holding the office of class president, please help them to formulate a speech which they might deliver to the class on this date. I will tape the speeches, as usual, using an Apple program. They can easily be transferred to a flash drive for those interested parents.