Happy Veteran's Day

 READING--

This week we are reading “Moonwalk” by Ben Bova.  We will focus on some vocabulary words in this story.  It would be helpful if you will reinforce the meaning of these words at home with your child.  Also, on this post you will find our spelling words for the week.  Please practice these words at home as well.  The words in italics are our challenge spelling words.  Let’s have a great week!

Spelling Words: please, pleasant, breath, breathe, image, imagine, product, production, heal, health, triple, triplet, relate, relative, meter, metric, compose, composition, crumb, crumble, origin, original, academy, academic, inspire, inspiration

Vocabulary Word	Meaning
loomed	appeared dimly or vaguely as a large, threatening shape
rille	a long, narrow valley on the surface of the moon
runt	animal, person, or plant that is smaller than the usual size.  If used about a person, runt is sometimes considered offensive.
staggered	became unsteady; wavered
summoning	stirring to action; rousing
taunted	jeered at; mocked; reproached
trench	any ditch; deep furrow
trudged	walked wearily or with effort

MATH--

We are working on Multiplication and properties. Please practice your multiplication facts EVERYDAY!  As we master the facts, we will be earning "Multiplication Sundaes." Ask your child about this! We are excited!!

MONDAY we are out of School for Veteran's Day!! Thank you to all past and present military for your service! A special note of appreciation to my grandfather: Virgil Price who served in WW2; my uncle: Terry Price who served in Korea; and my brother-in-law: Landon Cordell who is currently a BlackHawk pilot stationed at Ft. Campbell and has been overseas 3 times. 

THANK YOU ALL!