{"id":2636,"date":"2018-11-26T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2018-11-26T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:39:03","slug":"week-of-november-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2018\/11\/26\/week-of-november-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of November 26, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all had a relaxing, and delightful thanksgiving with your family and loved ones.\u00a0 I spent the day with my family, took on the mall on Friday, spent Saturday doing household things, and spent Sunday with my husband for our Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>This week brings us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>READING-TRANSPORTATION\u00a0 &#8220;What are some different ways (modes) of Transportation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll also review\u00a0<strong><em>story elements\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>(characters, setting, plot, solution)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PHONICS- short a sound\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>a<\/strong>t\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>a<\/strong>m\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>a<\/strong>g\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>a<\/strong>n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>a<\/strong>p<\/p>\n<p>LETTERS-<strong>Q\u00a0 q\u00a0 \u00a0 V\u00a0 v<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WORDS-\u00a0\u00a0<strong>play\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ride\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> Have your student practice reading, spelling, and writing these words.\u00a0 Make up sentences with them.\u00a0 By Friday, they should be able to add them to their word mastery list.<\/p>\n<p>WRITING-TRANSPORTATION\u00a0 \u00a0We will be using<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>First&#8230;..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Next&#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Last&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Again, practice these writing steps when conversing with your child.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MATH-We begin Module 3 in our Math Program, comparing\u00a0<strong><em>different\u00a0 lengths,<\/em><\/strong> using math vocabulary\u00a0<em>taller than, shorter than,\u00a0<\/em>with aligned and non-aligned endpoints.<\/p>\n<p>SOCIAL STUDIES-We will be discussing &#8220;NEEDS AND WANTS.&#8221;\u00a0 Rather timely, huh?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scientists have recently determined<\/p>\n<p>that it takes approximately 400 repetitions<\/p>\n<p>to create a new synapse in the brain-<\/p>\n<p>unless it is done with play, in which case,<\/p>\n<p>it takes between 10-20 repetitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Dr. Karen Purvis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all had a relaxing, and delightful thanksgiving with your family and loved ones.\u00a0 I spent the day with my family, took on the mall on Friday, spent Saturday doing household things, and spent Sunday with my husband for our Anniversary. This week brings us&#8230; READING-TRANSPORTATION\u00a0 &#8220;What are some different ways (modes) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}