Week of March 4th

This week will be pretty much a repeat of last week since snow days and my absences have gotten us behind. We will also be taking our benchmark tests.

This week is also super busy with the following activities:

**Read Across America Week
**Parent Teacher Conferences
**Spring Pictures
**Book Fair

Please look for flyers about these events. They should have come home Thursday and Friday. :)

Week of February 25th

Agenda for the following week:

Reading - We will be reading a class story called Stone Fox and doing related comprehension work with it. The children need to finish their leveled dog books by Monday, March 5th.

English - Online stories, quotations

Spelling - If  your child made an A or B on last week's spelling test, he or she will receive the week off! Good job! The rest of the class will need to study hard this week.

Math - Comparing fractions and equivalent fractions

Science - Offshore oil drilling

Social Studies - Chicago/skyscrapers, Industrial Revolution

Please don't forget to send in your dog/cat donations. A special thanks to Abby L,  Isaiah and Haedon for their donations. The food, toys and blankets will be greatly appreciated!! If everyone else could donate a $2 or $3 box of treats, that would be huge!

Week of February 19th

Hello Families!  Here is what's ahead for the 4 day week coming up:

Reading - We will finish Winn Dixie and the related comprehension work with it.  Their leveled readers are due to be finished February 26th along with an AR test taken.  If they are not done, they will miss out on our February reward day. 

Spelling - Math Vocabulary 3  - I will send home the list today because there are 12 words for next week and I didn't want them to not receive them until Tuesday. :) Please look for them.

English - Stories

Math - Fractions

Social Studies - Intro to the Midwest Region

Science - Fossils to Fuel

Don't forget to send dog/cat supplies if you can for our shelter donation. :)

Week of February 11th

Hello Families! Here is the agenda for the week ahead:

Math - measurement - area and capacity

Reading - Winn Dixie, leveled novels

English - stories

Spelling - Figurative Language terms

Science - Weather.....Look for a homework assignment this week that involves watching a weather forecast and recording the info. :)


The girls won the Superbowl Challenge!! The participating girls will get to have pizza in the class for lunch with me on Tuesday.

Hopefully you saw the note about our voluntary dog/cat supplies donation drive. A rescue person will come and speak to the class at the end of this month and we will give our donations to him at that time. It is wonderful to see the children participate in this and feel a part of things. I have encouraged my parents in the past to make their children work at home to help earn money to purchase something themselves. They feel empowered then and feel that even as young as they are, they can still do big things that make a difference!!

Week of February 4th

Hi Families! Here is a look at the week ahead:

Reading - We will be reading the book Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo as a class and doing comprehension work with it.  It is a wonderful story I think the children will love!

Spelling - Math vocabulary 2       I will be sending home the terms and definitions Monday.

English - Stories

Math - Measurement

Social Studies - We will be reviewing the history of the Southeast on Monday and taking a test on Friday. Look for a study guide on Monday afternoon. :)

Science - Weather

Don't forget that Monday I will count up the final reading points and determine whether the boys or girls are the Super Bowl Reading Champions!!!

Week of January 28th

Hello families!

Agenda:

Reading - Nonfiction, affixes and roots, synonyms and antonyms, homonyms and multiple meanings, and resource materials

Spelling - math vocabulary - I will be sending home a list of the words and their meanings on Monday. They have to know the spellings and meanings of 8 math vocabulary words. If they make an A on the test on Thursday, they don't have to take the test on Friday.

English - We will officially  be working on our stories. The exciting news is that your child is going to be a published author!! After writing our rough drafts, we will begin typing our stories online. Your child will receive a code for this online publishing site, so they may work on their books at home. Every child will receive a free paperback copy of their books!!

Social Studies - On Monday, we will be making a study guide for the SW Region states test and capitals test. The location test will be Thursday and capital test will be Friday.

Science - Weather

Math - Symmetry, Object Transformations, Measurement

On Thursday, we will be having a Game and Feed for all students who have been well behaved and responsible! Your child will be bringing home a note if he/she has earned the privilege.

Week of January 22nd

Hi Families! Here is what's up this week:

Reading: This week we will finish up our mysteries and case report. Our skill focus will be prefixes, suffixes and antonyms.

Spelling:  List 22 ight, ought, and aught

English:  Figurative Language review, Creative Writing

Math:  Line Relationships, Solids, Polygons, Quadrilaterals

Social Studies:  Abe Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks

Keep reading at home! I will be tallying last week's results to see if the girls are still in the lead or if the boys have moved ahead in the Superbowl Challenge!!

Week of January 14th

Hello Families! Hope your Christmas Break was a great one! Sorry I forgot to update the blog last week......completely slipped my mind! Here is your update for this week though:

Reading - The genre for this month is mystery. The children began their mystery novels last week. Their novels and related work are due January 18th. The skill of the week is fact and opinion.

Math - We will finish up division Monday with estimating quotients and then begin geometry. We will continuously review previously learned concepts and take cumulative review tests to check for learning and retention. Please look for these papers to come home with your child and go over them.

Spelling - List 21, Enriched list 21.5

English - Figurative Language, Creative Writing

Social Studies - We began the Southeast region last week. This week, we will look at the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, and the Civil War.

Hopefully everyone is reading at home! The girls are winning the Super Bowl Challenge so far!!