Week of November 5th

Did you hear about our "change challenge?" 

The kiddos are pretty stoked to practice self-sacrifice - and do extra chores around the house - to earn extra money for their CCLS-U sponsor students! 
Our first collection date is November 27th, but your child can bring in their jar anytime!

 We had another great experience with our preschool reading buddies last week...

This week's objectives: 

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER FORMATION PROJECT

We will revisit the virtue RESPECT. We define RESPECT as God's power for you to honor Him and others. We will read more from Exodus about Moses, Pharaoh, and the plagues. As we discuss, we will ask ourselves this "big question" - Why should I choose to RESPECT God above everyone else?

PHONICS and SPELLING

The rule this week is all the different "long e" spelling patterns.

READING SKILLS and STRATEGIES 

Students will continue to work on visualizing to help comprehend the text. We are also learning about "activating schema" to prepare us for reading... They discovered that we all have a filing cabinet in our brain! 😊 I hope you can encourage your child to use these strategies at home too! 

GRAMMAR and WRITING 

Grammar skills will target the apostrophe again, but this week, we'll see it in contractions. So much grammar to learn in our crazy English language! We always practice applying spelling and grammar skills in our writing, particularly this week as students finish their "Thanksgiving paragraphs." 

These paragraphs will be sent to Student Treasures Publishing Company to be published as a hardcover class book! Let me know if you have any questions about the note that went home regarding purchasing a copy of this book for your family!

NEWS and NOTES

• November 18th - CCLS Sunday at Webster
• November 19th-23rd NO SCHOOL for Thanksgiving Break
• November 30th - November Reading Logs Due
• December 17th - CCLS Advent Service

BLESSINGS ON YOUR WEEK!