Religion: Our third Advent Prayer Service will be on Monday, December 17 at 2:55. The students will participate in the sacrament of Reconciliation on Tuesday. They will also participate in a prayer service and sing along on Friday morning. 
Writing: This week with Mentor Sentences we are focusing on compound verbs. We have been working on creating paragraphs in writing. We have talked about using a topic sentence as well as supporting sentences.
Math: Unit 5 focuses on place value with larger numbers and decimals. We will be focusing on the millions for the next few days with different activities. The students will also participate on their third STEAM activity of the month. Ask them which one they liked the best!
Spelling: Week 13 Sounds of OU (round) & OW (cow) / Changing Vowel Sound in Plurals (foot - feet)
The spelling section of the website contains all of the weekly lists and the choice words in case your child misplaces their words. You can also find a copy of LSCW if you need it.
Science/SS: We are starting our forces, motion, and simple machines unit. The kids will participating in many hands on activities throughout the unit! Look for information to be coming home about the timeline leading up to Invention Convention!!
Comprehension: This week we worked on making inferences. We will continue to do this next week as well. The students have been told to act like detectives while they read and look for clues.