Week of February 16-20

Important Dates:
*No school Monday 2/16 Presidents' Day
*Spring Pictures 2/26
*No school Monday 3/2
*ISAT testing week: March 4-6 and March 9
*Spring Conferences: Week of March 9th



Classroom Chatter:
Enjoy the day off on Monday for Presidents' Day.

A note was sent home on Friday regarding spring parent/teacher conferences. They are being held on an "as needed" basis with your child's homeroom and/or math teacher. If you are interested in scheduling a conference, please fill out the form that was sent home and return it to me by Friday, 2/20. Once all requests have been received, a conference date/time will be provided for you to confirm.


Science
We will be taking the test on Ch. 5 on Wednesday.



Social Studies
We began our exploration of Ancient Egypt. Students will be reading the book, Eye on Ancient Egypt to learn about pyramids, pharaohs, and mummies oh my!

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 is L. 17. It is a review unit from lessons 10-16. A practice test will go home on Monday. This is what Friday's test will look like but with words from lessons 10-16. The workbook pages for this week 90-93 and are due on Thursday. Thursday's homework will have a worksheet that will come home on Thursday.

English
We will spend the next few weeks on expository writing. Much of the writing we've done in class has been together. Over the next few weeks, students will be writing more independently.

Reading
We will read The Ballad of Mulan this week to continue our study of inference. There will not be a quiz on vocabulary. Don't forget the book report for January/February is due Thursday 2/26.

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

Math
We will begin chapter 7 on time and measurement. Students will begin learning about telling time and elapsed time. We will also be doing problem solving and writing extended responses. We will be taking a mad minute in division 4's this week. Also, information about the geometry project went home today. It is due Monday, March 16th.





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