Sunday, February 20, 2011

Week of February 22nd!

Hasn't the weather been awesome this last week?!!  Love it!  Can't wait for Spring!  The kids sure did awesome on their program!  I was so proud of them and all their hard work!  Here is the agenda for this 4 day week:

Reading - Leveled fiction dog themed books....many children have finished their stories and are now working on their climax project.  Their fiction dog books should be finished by Monday, February 28th and the climax report is due by March 2nd.   For those children done early, they may choose one of the dog picture books to read and do a picture book report.  This second book and report are due for everyone on March 4th.

Math - We will finish up fractions this week and begin division.  We will continue to review, review, review previously learned skills! I am so proud of how well they are doing in math!

Social Studies - We will finish up the Southeast region this week. The children did fabulous on their SE history presentations last week! They took notes over each other's information and we will test over that information on Thursday. 

Spelling - List 15 on spellingcity.com  I will announce spelling enrichment words on Tuesday.

English - We are going to spend a lot of time working on our stories this week.  Some children have completed their rough drafts and have started to type their stories online.  The goal this week is for everyone to complete their rough drafts! :)

Science - I have decided to postpone our geology unit for a few more weeks.  The unit is so fun, but our experiments will do better with more consistent temps. They won't do well in real cold temperatures and our portables can get so cold at night.  If the temperature stayed like it has been this past week, it would be great, but I don't look for that to happen!  We will wait until after Spring Break! In the meantime, we will be doing some weather related topics of study for science! 

The children have had wonderful behavior and integrity! Let's keep up the good work! I have not forgotten the space habitats! We will be doing them, but that too will be sometime in the Spring.

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