Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Week of January 26-30

Important Dates:
*6 Flags 6 Hours of Reading due 2/20
*Movie Night Friday 2/6


Classroom Chatter
Book orders were placed last week. They will come home with your child when they arrive. Thank you for your order.

Science
We will be taking a test on Wednesday on Ecosystems.

Social Studies
We will be finishing up chapter 9, Making Choices, this week. The chapter 9 test is scheduled for Tuesday, 2/3. A study guide will come home this week.


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

Spelling

L. 14 words are irregular past tense verbs. There will be a pretest on Monday and a test on Friday. The homework for this week are workbook pages 75-78. They are due on Thursday. Thursday's homework will be an ABC order sheet.

English

I decided to begin Adjectives last week. We will continue with adjectives as well as some expository writing.

Reading

We will finish up Stone Fox this week by finishing chapters 8-10. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday for chapter's 5-7 words and a quiz next Monday on 8-10's words.


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

Math

We will continue with our geometry unit. Students will learn about congruent and similar shapes, and slides, flips, and turns of shapes. We will be taking a checkpoint on Friday on p. 450-451.


This week we will be taking a mad minute on mix multiplication facts from x0-x12.