I can't believe Thanksgiving is almost here, the year is flying by. We are so excited for all the holiday fun things we have planned. We do many special crafts and traditions from years pasted during these upcoming weeks. We are also practicing for our Christmas show which is always adorable! I can't wait until you are all welcomed in to the classroom to see us in action. We love having parties, but they will be much better when our parents can come.

Next Tuesday, we will do a Thanksgiving celebration. We will send home a party in a bag again that we will have that afternoon. We would also love if anyone would want to come on zoom and do a craft or read a Thanksgiving book. Devin's mom was awesome last time. It was a big hit having her on the big screen!

Phonics- Today we did the Unit 4 test and the children all did well. I am really pleased with the phonics skills this group has. They all know their sounds and use their tools to read and write these words. We are getting into more rules and more difficult concepts, but I feel confident they will keep moving along. We start each day with drill sounds, then we do magnetic boards and white boards. They learned about the bonus letter. At the end of a one syllable word, if the word has one vowel that is short and immediately followed by f, l, s at the end, double that consonant. The extra letter is considered a bonus because it is extra. The bonus letter does not make a sound so we don't tap it. Students were also introduced to their first glued sound -all. For example: ball, wall, mall, tall. The bonus "l" in all changes the vowel sound. We will continue practicing this concept during remote next week. In Unit 5 we will be reviewing the am and an glued sounds. Look in your child's folders to see their test, if you have time you can review any mistakes they may have made.

Trick Words for this Week- Test Friday

We are going to take another week to review our past trick words. Since we had no school last Friday they were never tested. Many children are getting mixed up now that we added in a lot of more difficult ones. They should be practicing each night, the list is in their yellow folders.

In Math, we are have moved onto on the plus 6's for our weekly math facts. In class, we are working on how addition and subtraction sentences are related. For example, 5+3=8 and 8-5=3
We call these fact families. The children are doing a daily math review each day when they come into school that will help them review past concepts so that they continue to build on these skills. We correct these together so they can see what mistakes they have made.

Religion-

We have implemented a great addition to our Religion program. Every Tuesday we go to the Church and have a lesson from Deacon Joe. This week we toured the church and he went through all the special religious objects. The children had a lot of great questions and learned many different vocabulary words. We all really enjoyed the Mass on All Saints Day that our 5th graders hosted. The children loved listening to the different stories of the loves that many of these Saints lived.

Fall Fun- We loved our Science lesson on the Fall Senses. We explored the outdoors. We decided what we could see, hear, taste, touch and smell in the Fall. I posted these on the FB page, but just incase you didn't see them.