Week of January 11-15

MAP testing is next week; Tuesday is reading and Wednesday is math.  Please make sure your child gets a good breakfast and brings a healthy snack to school.  Also, a good night’s sleep is a must!!

Coming up next week:

Spelling:   The Spelling test will be Friday, January15. The students will use the same words and have 3 more activities due on Friday as well.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’re continuing our culture and traditions unit.  We’re finishing up The Keeping Quilt. by Patricia Polacco.  A vocabulary quiz will take place on Monday.  Please make sure your child reads through their vocabulary slides on Classroom (chromebooks.)  

Social Studies:  We are on hiatus!!

Science:   We’re beginning the study of matter.  We’ll be reading and taking notes this week.  We will also have an IN-SCHOOL field trip about Matter. Matter Matters people will come to our rooms and be doing experiments with us on matter. A permission slip will go home today and students will need to bring it back with $7.50 in order to participate.

Mrs. Mandru’s Math Class:  We’re continuing Unit 4, focusing this week on multi-step problems, unit fractions, and comparing and ordering fractions.  There will be a measurement checkpoint on Tuesday.

Important Dates:

1/12 - Reading MAP test

1/13 - Math MAP test

1/15 - Early Dismissal (11:35)

1/18 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Bday - day off!