       
December 21-25
Updated on Monday
 I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I am so blessed to have wonderful students and parents. Thank you so much for the Christmas gifts, cards, well wishes, and kind words. I am truly the luckiest teacher at HGS!!!! Have a safe, fun, and relaxing holiday vacation.
***Please be on the lookout for your child's part for prayer/pledge the week of January 4. If your child was at school on Friday, most of them already received their part. I will mail the others out sometime next week. I will follow up with a phone call to make sure everyone received the papers.
***CONGRATULATIONS to the entire class! Everyone made their AR goal for the 2nd 9 weeks!!!!! Only two more nine weeks to go!!!!!!
 Beginning in January, students will use binders instead of the individual folders. Each student will need a 1 & 1/2 inch binder (any kind and any style as long as it is the correct size) and a pack of tab dividers/pockets (look in your child's test folder this week for a note on the kind and style of dividers). Please empty out all folders and insert the looseleaf paper in the binder. You may keep the folders at home. It will be easier for the students to keep track of one binder and not 5 folders. This will make the transition into 4th grade easier. If you have any questions, please feel free to conact me over the holidays. I check my email on a daily basis during the holidays.
   Mrs. Rachel Harrop is our BoxTop$ Mom this year. Please continue to send in labels from the above products--BoxTop$, A+ Tyson Chicken, Campbell's, and Community Coffee.
Have a Merry Christmas,
Ms. Darleen
December 21-January 3-- Christmas and New Year Holidays
January 4-8-- Our class will read prayer/pledge in the morning. If your child did not participate at mass, he/she will do prayer/pledge in the morning.
Students should be reading 15 minutes each night for AR
Practice multiplication facts 9 each night this week.
Monday, 1/4
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English--
Spelling--
Math--
Social Studies--
Religion--
Tuesday, 1/5
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Spelling--
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Social Studies--
Religion--
Wednesday, 1/6
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Spelling--
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Religion--
Thursday, 1/7
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Spelling--
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Social Studies--
Religion--
Friday, 1/8
**Have a blessed Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!**
 ****Test Schedule****
*Tuesday--
*Wednesday--
*Thursday--
*Friday--
 
Unit 3, Week 3
•story:
•genre--
•skills:
•Test on
vocabulary
***We are also learning the sentence, noun, verb, & action verb Shurley jingles. Print out the jingles below to practice***
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•Please keep all study guides to help practice and review past skills daily.
***Past English skills: types of sentences (imperative, interrogative, declarative, exclamatory), run-on sentences, subjects, predicates, complete sentences, compound sentences, common & proper nouns, singular & plural nouns, irregular nouns, possessive nouns (singular and plural), compound subjects & predicates, action verbs, present tense verbs
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•Students will begin taking a spelling pretest on Thursdays. If he/she scores 100% on the pretest, he/she will not take the test on Friday. 3x's each is still due on Fridays.
•Students should be writing 3x's each in cursive to turn in.
•Students are responsible for writing each word 3 times each on loose leaf to turn in the day of the spelling test.
**Please see example heading worksheet in the language arts folder**
•Chapter 5: Multiplication
•We will not take timed tests until after the Christmas holidays.
**Click on the link below for addition/subtraction fact practice. The students already played the game in class during center time. It is great practice.**
•We will focus on 0, 1, 2, 5 & 9 until the Christmas holidays. Please practice only these facts at night. Use flashcards to review nightly. The math fact link below is great practice.
•Students will have weekly check-ups for multiplication facts. These check-ups will be used as a daily grade.
We will continue with Social Studies in the 4th 9 weeks.
•When we return in January, we will begin with science.
•Unit D: Chapter 1, The Body's Systems (pages D5-D31)
•We will explore the different parts of the body and how they work together.
•Students will begin learning the skill of outlining. I will teach them how to take notes and outline each lesson. They will use this outline to study for the test. It will be used as a study guide. There will not be a link for a study guide.
vocabulary
lesson 1 (pages D8-D13)
What Parts Make up Your Body?
1. system-- a group of body parts that work together to perform a job
2. organ-- a body part that does a special job within a body system
3. tissue-- a group of cells that look alike and work together to do a certain job
4. cell-- the basic unit of all living things, including the human body
Religion 
•Please see link below--How to pray the Rosary. It is a great website that teaches children how to pray the rosary and the prayers. I use this site often for Advent and Lent. I highly recommend using it with your child.
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