Week of 3/8/10

Hi Families!



This week, we will be very busy practicing for our 4th grade program. The program dress rehearsal is at 1:30 on Thursday and the real performance is at 6:30 Thursday. More info from Ms. Salisbury will follow. It is such a fun play! Can't wait for you to see your cuties!



Agenda:



Reading - We will continue reading our dog books and finding the main ideas of each chapter while we read. When the children are done with their stories, they will fill out a character, problem, solution flip report and work with a partner to create a poster advertising their book. Some of the kids are done with their book already and have started a new dog book. I'm so proud of them!



Math - Relating fractions to decimals, equivalent decimals, and comparing decimals



English - Linking verbs (didn't get to it this past week) and pen pal letters



Social Studies - Wagon types, gold, Alaska and Hawaii Our West location test will be on Thursday and our capital test will be on Friday. Your child will need to take the text book home to study, unless he/she still has the guide I sent home last week. We've been doing a website almost every Thursday practicing all 50 state locations, so most of the kids are pretty good at knowing where all the states are, but the capitals are a different story. Make sure your child knows both things for the West tests.



Science - Geology - We will be studying the layers of the Earth (including an edible model), the 3 types of rocks (We will rock eat too!), and fossils (We will make fossils also!).

Spelling - silent letters (spellingcity.com list 23) We will be taking a spelling enrichment break this week.

We only need 6 postcards to have a postcard from all 50 states! Yeah! This class will be the first class to do this! Those states are: Wyoming, North Dakota, W. Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware. We need Alabama too, but Holly is visiting there right now and will bring it to us when she returns! Thanks to all who have helped us to reach our goal! I will tell you about a new challenge for the kids involving the states soon!