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Dear Families,
Wow! You are as impressive as your children! We had 75%
of our classroom’s parents at Open House! I am so grateful and
inspired by your support. Your child is just wonderful! Each and
every one of them brings me much joy. They are working very
hard and they are gaining the benefits with high scores! I hope
you had a nice and relaxing long weekend.
Sincerely,
Miss McGinley
Homework for the week:
Language Arts: Spelling worksheet is due Wedesday.
Making Connections quiz is Thursday. Theme test is
Friday. Spelling and Vocabulary test is Friday. Read 30
minutes a night see back of newsletter for reading log
Writing: Interview of parents due Thursday. Simple and
Compund sentences quiz Thursday.
Math: pink Unit 1 Book: Page 26 is due Thursday and
page 30 is due Friday
Social Studies: Study vocabulary for test Friday.
Skills this week
In Reading our theme this week is American
Dreams. The Mystery of the Box in the Wall. We
will read the poem “Working on the
Transcontinental Railroad, 1869” and the
Biography of Samuel Goldwyn: Picture This… The
comprehension strategy is make connections.
We will learn about how to use punctuation to
inform meaning and gain precise listening. We
will review consonants in spelling. In writing we
will continue to Generate Ideas and look at the
Organizational Pattern of a Main Idea and
Details. In Grammar we will identify Simple
Compound Sentences and Simple Compound
Subjects Predicates.
In Math we are naming and constructing
Geometric Figures.
Orchard Park
Elementary School
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(317) 848-1918 ext. 1642
Spelling Words
building
calendar
family
monster
patio
poem
reason
subtract
valley
weather
after
called
very
words
decimal
phrase
science
wrist
Vocabulary Words
Language Arts: cautious, youth, immigrant, prosper,
settler
Math angle, center of a circle, circle, compass
concentric circles, congruent, convex, endpoint,
equilateral triangle, hexagon, inscribed square, interior,
intersect, kite, line, line segment, n-gon, nonagon,
nonconvex or concave, octagon, parallel line
segments, parallel lines, parallel rays, parallelogram,
pentagon, perpendicular line segments, point
polygon, quadrangle, quadrilateral, radius, ray,
rectangle regular polygon, rhombus, right angle, side,
square, trapezoid, triangle vertex
Social Studies: economist, geographer, political,
scientist, historian, social scientist, social science,
economy, geographer, political scientist, historian,
archaeologist