Week of January 14- January 18

We made it through one week of the New Year! Woo Hoo!

We have our Matter Matters presentation on Monday. It will be a wonderful end to our interesting unit on Matter!

We also have a practice Spelling Bee on Wednesday, January 16. This will be a practice for the class bee on Wednesday, January 23. 

 Thank you to the students who donated to the treasure chest this week! If you would like to donate to the treasure chest, that would be very helpful.

Math:

We have been reviewing this week as we returned from break. On Tuesday we will start chapter 6-data and graphs. There will not be Math on Monday due to the Matter Matters presentation. We will also focus on our times 3’s. The multiplication test will be on Friday 1/18/13.

Reading: 

We will be continue our focus on The night of the Pufflings. Our skill we will be working on is fact and opinion. There will be a vocab quiz on the words on Monday, January 14. 

Spelling: 

We will be working on list 14. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2 challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities) The homework is due on Thursday.

English:

We have started our verbs unit! We have completed lessons 1 and 2 and will be focusing on lesson 3-5 this week.

Social Studies:

We have started chapter 3-Culture. This chapter will include learning about different cultures as well as why people moved to the U.S.A. You can expect to see things coming home about culture day next week.  

Science:

This past week we have been doing a lot of fun and interesting projects to wrap up our matter unit! This week we will start Chapter 14-heat, light and sound!

I hope everyone had a wonderful two weeks off and enjoyed spending quality time with your families!

Have a nice weekend!