WEEK OF 1/28/08

This week looks like this:

READING: review previous skills, power words, biographies- I have assigned everyone a biography- they read them today and they will fill in and color a poster on their person starting tomorrow
SPELLING: words with the schwa sound
SOCIAL STUDIES: The kids did super teaching their SE person/event! While they taught, they had to write on the board one important fact and date about their person/event. Everyone had to take notes on all these facts. This week, they will put the events in order on a timeline, so that they can see that all these happenings and people in the Southeast's history didn't occur at the same time! They will also hear a powerful story of 2 boys in the Civil War and do some related work. I will show them 3 short DVD's this week on people they learned and taught about! They are: Pocahontas, Abe Lincoln, and Harriet Tubman. They will do related work with the DVD's as well. By the way, I saw some super creative games! The questions the children came up with were fantastic! When children have to think of the questions, that practices those higher level thinking skills!!!
ENGLISH: past tense verbs, helping verbs, letter writing
MATH: large number multiplication, rounding before multiplying

We will take a break from social studies next week and do a science unit on forces. I won a grant in November and got some neat new science stuff recently! I am anxious to start using it!

Please don't forget to do reading/math homework. We went from 100% participation to 50% participation last week! What a disappointment! The homework doesn't take that long and they have 4 days to do it. We practice important skills with the homework on Fridays. Please make sure your child is doing the homework.

The school spelling bee is this week. Brent and Erin are our class winners!! Good job you two!! Good for all who tried out as well! We will find out tomorrow who our school champions are!

We ran out of time Friday to take our spelling enrichment test. I am sorry! We will take it tomorrow. I will post some new words tomorrow for this Friday's test.

Postcards are starting to come in! Yeah! We have 60 Oklahoma postcards! We only need about 10 more! Thanks to all who have sent them in! We also have been receiving some other state postcards! Keep those coming in as well!