Monday, March 16, 2009

Week of March 23-27

Important Dates:
Book orders due Friday 3/27
Tivoli Friday 3/27
Spring break 3/30-4/3

Classroom Chatter
Book orders for March will be due on Thursday 3/26. They went home last Friday. Let me know if you want me to set aside any books you order for Easter baskets and we can arrange for a pick up!

We look forward to our trip to the Tivoli on Friday to see a private viewing of Nanny McPhee! What a great way to kick off spring break!

Science
We will finish up chapter 9 with a Jeopardy review game on the whiteboard on Wednesday. The test will be on Thursday 3/26.

Social Studies
We will be starting the book, Tut's Mummy, next week. Information about Ancient Egypt mobiles went home this week. They are due April 15th.

Spelling
L. 21's words are nouns ending with -er. The test will be Friday. This week's pages are 111-114. They are due Thursday. An ABC order will come home on Thursday.
English
This week we will learn how to write abbreviations and book titles correctly. We will also learn about introductory words and commas in a series.

Reading
We will continue with our biography unit. Information about our next book report will come home this week. This month's book report genre focuses on poetry.

Math
We will continue with our fractions unit. On Thursday, students will be taking a checkpoint on fractions on page 358-359. We are half way done with this unit. Students will be taking a mad minute in division 7's. We won't meet on Friday due to the Tivoli movie, so Mad Minutes will be Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week.