"How to Babysit a Orangutan" - Nov. 3- Nov. 7

Spelling List

• ground
• frown
• downtown
• bounced
• council
• about
• scout
• counter
• background
• amount
• bound
• shower
• mountain
• county
• thousand
• allowance
• counselor
• discount
• countless
• rebound

Kuddos

Congratulations to Katie, Parker and Abby. They are the first students in our class to qualify for the incentive field trip by mastering levels 1-30 of MathFacts in a Flash. Hats off to Katie for mastering all 62 levels. Way to go!

Homework for Oct. 22

• Math worksheet
• Social Studies worksheet pages 9 & 10
• Indiana Dailies quiz
• No school Thursday & Friday

Homework for Oct. 20th

• Math - Lesson 18, #1-26
• Soc. Studies - Read Unit 1, Chapter 2, Lesson 2 (Tipton Till)
• Indiana Dailies quiz on Wed.
• Library & P.E.
• No school on Thurs. or Fri.

Weekly Updates

Our first grading period ended today.  I will have grades finalized on Monday.  Report cards will not go home until parent-teacher conferences on Oct. 30th.  If you haven't signed up for a conference time, please do so as soon as possible.  

There is no school on Oct. 23 - 24.  It's fall break, so enjoy!  Also, we will not have any new spelling or vocabulary words for next week.  There will be an Indiana Dailies quiz on Wednesday.  Have a great weekend.

Homework for Oct. 13th

• Read "Nights of the Pufflings"
• Write spelling words 3 times each - skip lines between words
• Soc. Studies quiz over Lesson 3 is on Wednesday
• Soc. Studies quiz over Lessons 1-3 vocabulary is on Friday
• Library tomorrow

"Nights of the Pufflings" (Oct. 13-17)

Spelling 

• cared
• dairy
• unfair
• rarely
• stared
• dared
• glare
• airplanes
• barely
• farewell
• software
• staircase
• everywhere
• declare
• square
• therefore
• despair
• prepared
• beware
• repair

Story Vocabulary

uninhabited  - having no people living there

burrows - holes in the ground made by animals

venture - go out into a dangerous place

stranded - left behind or in a helpless situation

nestles - moves snugly next to

instinctively - without thinking; in a way that is natural