Curriculum Guide for the Week of November 5 - 9

These are the subjects and content area the students will be studying this

week.  Please make sure that your child goes over these areas of study with you.

Virtue of the Month: Appreciation and Wonder for Beauty of Our World. *

Saxon Math: Lessons 41-45 on drawing and reading a pictograph, identifying place value to hundreds, writing three-digit numbers in expanded form, adding two-digit numbers using mental computation, naming line segments, identifying a missing digit in an addition problem, multiplying 1 and 10 by a number, identifying factors and products, and estimating and finding capacity of containers.  *

History: World Rivers test corrections. Start Unit on The Earliest Americans- Lesson 1 and 2 on Beringia- the Land Bridge and People of the far north- the Inuits.   *

                                                         

Religion: Preparation for First Reconciliation.  Chapters 1-4 on we are called to serve one another, Baptism, God gives everyone life, original sin, the sacraments, children of the light, Zacchaeus, examination of conscience, and reverencing the Word.  Thanksgiving and gratitude. 

Science:  Review of the Muscular and Skeletal system. We will build a model of a leg and attach muscles to it seeing how the muscles actually work.   Make Muscles Move You! Book and discuss.  Review for Skeletal and Muscular test next week.  *

                                                       

Literature: We will finish reading the book Bunnicula and discuss the poem “The First Thanksgiving of All” and the story Hunting of the Great Bear.    *

                                                        

English: Writing a friendly letter and the parts of a letter.  Sayings: “Beat around the bush” and “Beggars can’t be choosers.” Go over November Book Report.  Phonics Lesson 10 on combinations.  *

                                                 

Vocab./ Spelling: Vocab. – Unit 3 on definitions, synonyms and antonyms of words, completing the sentence and word associations.  Vocabulary and Spelling Test on Friday.  *

Art & Music: Thanksgiving art.  We will be making Indian corn necklaces and Pumpkin weaving mats.  Music- learn and practice songs for the Christmas performance. 

Check White Envelope for: Reminders, information for Nov., and corrected work to be filed in their 3 ring binders. November’s Book Report form-due Friday November 30^th. 

Reminders: Early dismissal is at 12:00 Thursday and Friday of this week.  Scheduled conferences will be Wednesday day eve. - Friday.  Looking forward to meeting with you all. Red, White and Blue day is Tuesday for Election Day.  Next Monday we have no school to honor Veteran’s Day. Have a great week