Friday, September 12, 2008

Week of September 15-19

Important Dates:
Tuesday, 9/16-Early Dismissal



Classroom Chatter
Don't forget Tuesday is an early dismissal. Students will be dismissed by 11 am.

Information about Goo, Glob, & Guts went home on Friday. This in-school science experience will be Wednesday, September 24. The money is due on Friday, September 19th.



Science

This week we will finish up chapter 1 of the human body. Students will learn about the digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems in lesson 3. The test is scheduled for Thursday, September 25. A study guide will come home this week.


Social Studies

Students will be working on an in-class project to end our study of the continents and oceans. We will then move our study to the hemispheres of the world.





Please visit the blog of your child's Reading teacher to find out information for Reading, Language Arts, and Spelling in that classroom.

Spelling

This week's words are spelled with ou. We will not have a pretest this week due to the early dismissal schedule. We will not have Spelling on Tuesday. The list will be in the spelling folder on Monday. The test is Friday.

English

We will finish up Unit 1 with some additional practice of subjects and predicates. We will learn about run-on sentences this week too. The test is scheduled for Wednesday, September 24. A study guide will come home by the end of the week. It will be in their folders.

Reading

This week we will focus on our next reading strategy, predictions. We will begin predictions with a story called Yumni and Halmoni's Trip.


Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.

Math

This week we will finish up chapter 1 by taking a checkpoint on Monday. We will do some extra practice this week and play a review game on Thursday to prepare us for Friday's test. We also will be taking subtraction mad minutes this week.