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Welcome to Mrs. Huggins and Ms. Smith's Class! toc

Contact Mrs. Huggins or Ms. Smith
dhuggins@wesleyanschool.org (This is the BEST way to contact me.)jsmith@wesleyanschool.org

Important Dates:
Spelling tests are every Friday unless otherwise noted. Lists are in your child's DNB and also on the spelling page of this website. Daily studying is highly recommended!

**//__Monday, March 5:__//** Our class visits the Book Fair (11:00 - 11:30) **//__Thursday, March 8__//**: ALL States and Capitals Test (states and capitals only, no map) - spelling counts! __//**Friday, March 9**//__: Doughnuts for Dad (7:50 - 8:30 - Drop In) __//**Thursday, March 15**//__: States and Capitals Celebration

Thank you to Connie Pope, Mary Ellen Otto, Michelle Bowling, Carol Simmons and Heidi Lloyd for your help with our Outline Maps. The kids had a wonderful time and the projects turned out just as I had hoped. This was our first venture completing this project in this manner. Thanks for helping the kids work together to create their masterpieces!

READING: Our Reading Units will now be on a two week rotation. We are doing this to allow more time for novel study. Focus for the weeks of February 20-24 and February 27-March 2:

Theme: Earth, Moon and Sun <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Genre: Expository Text (Story: Journey to the Moon) <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Comprehension: Compare and Contrast <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Vocabulary: astronaut, commander, gigantic, orbit, gravity, pressure <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Spelling: Week 1: Lesson 26 (hard and soft g) <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Week 2: Lesson 27 (prefixes: a-, in-, pre-, re-, un) <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Grammar: Week 1: Lessons 26 (a, an, the) and 27 (comparing with adjectives) <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Week 2: Lessons 28 (more comparing with adjectives) and 29 (comparing with more and most) <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Word Structure: Week 1: suffixes ity, less, ness and sion <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Week 2: Latin and Greek root words <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Novel Study: __Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing__

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">MATH: <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Focus for Unit 9: <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">DIVISION! <span style="color: #b30f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We have started estimating quotients and will move onto multidigit by 1 digit division this week.

<span style="color: #ff6e00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Our March Core Virtue is COURAGE: being brave enough to do what you should do, even when you are afraid..

<span style="color: #ff6e00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Memory Verse: "The Lord is my light and my salvation, of whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?" <span style="color: #ff6e00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Psalm 27:1

<span style="color: #0909be; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Here is a link to the [|States and Capitals song] the children sang for Grandparents' Day. They should know the states and capitals by heart at this point. Now they can focus on spelling.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">If you need to make appointments for your child, I ask that you avoid Mondays and Tuesdays as much as possible. These are our heaviest academic days each week and I use the time to fit in as much curriculum as possible. It is helpful if your child is here on these days unless they are sick. Thank you for your help.

<span style="color: #f11f1f; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Homework: In addition to 20 minutes of reading each night, your child will be expected to study spelling and math facts daily. There will also be various assignments each week related to reading, vocabulary, grammar, spelling, math, etc. Written homework should not take more than 45 minutes, usually less (nightly reading is not included in this time). If you find your child is taking longer than this, please contact me and let me know. I am more than happy to work out a manageable plan.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Homework for the week March 5-9
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Daily Practice of Spelling, Multiplication Facts <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Read for 20 minutes daily. Fact practice focus: multiplication and division of 9.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Monday : Math Worksheet R19-3 and Vocabulary WB pages 122-125.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Tuesday : Math worksheet R19-4 and Reading sheet due Friday. This must be signed!!!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Wednesday : Math: worksheet R19-5 and Grammar worksheet (adjectives - tbd).

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Thursday : Math: worksheet R20-1 and Spelling WB pages 111-112.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Weekend : No Homework! Happy Weekend!

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<span style="color: #0909be; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">We are great for now, thanks for checking in!