This Week (October 19-23)

**Reminder: The spelling test will be this Friday, October 23. The test will include short and long 'u' words and the 10 review words for this week.
Friday is the last day of the 1st nine weeks.

Spelling Review Words:
1.neighbor 2.explain 3.receive 4.piece 5.problem 6.doughnut 7.stranger 8.display
9.vein 10.shrimp

Writer's Workshop:
Please sign and return your child's narrative piece.
This week, we'll continue to work on adding "craft" to our narratives. We will focus on dialogue with "special tags" (words that we use instead of "said"). At this point in the school year, I expect that all narratives should include the elements of a story (characters, setting, problem, events/plot, and solution). We're continuing to practice including "engaging beginnings." I'll also be introducing a lesson on interesting ways to conclude our stories.

Science:
We're wrapping up our study of "the seasons." In science lab, we'll be working with heat lamps in an activity that will help us model the amount of sunlight received during different seasons.