Friday, April 17, 2009

Week of April 20-24

Important Dates:
*Skating Party Tuesday 4/21

*Progress Reports 4/21

*Early Dismissal Friday 4/24



Classroom Chatter:

It was so wonderful to see all my students and their families at Open House! Thank you for taking the time to come visit! It's so sad to think we have 7 weeks together till summer!




Science

We will finish up lesson one by learning about day and night. We will begin lesson 2 this week about the earth and moon.



Social Studies

Next week we will begin our unit on Chicago. We will begin with the history of Chicago.




Spelling

L. 24 words this week are spelled with -ear. The pretest is Monday and the test will be Friday. The workbook pages will be assigned on Tuesday. Pages 126-129 will be due Thursday. ABC order will come home Thursday.



English

We will begin a writing unit. Students will be writing their autobiography.



Reading

This week we will be presenting biographies. Students will also have another opportunity to play their games they made. They will come home Friday.



Math

We will be taking a checkpoint from pages 378-379. The test on chapter 9 is scheduled for Wednesday. We will review on Tuesday for the test in class. This week's mad minutes are on division 10's. Due to no school Friday, we will take mad minutes on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday if need be!