Friday, April 24, 2009

Week of April 27-May 1

Important Dates:
Miss Griffin's last day 5/8 :(


Classroom Chatter:
We are going to enjoy these last 2 weeks with Miss Griffin. We will miss her very much!


Science
This week we will learn about the planets of our solar system.


Social Studies
We will begin our study of Chicago. This week we will begin learning about the history of Chicago.


Spelling
L. 25 words are spelled with -igh. There will be a pretest on Monday and the test on Friday. 131-134 are this week's workbook pages. They're due on Thursday. ABC order will come home Thursday.


English
We will finish up typing our autobiographies. This week we will begin our final grammar unit. Unit 6 teaches us on pronouns.



Reading
This week we will begin a fairy tale unit. There will be some vocabulary words that come home on Monday. There will be a quiz on these terms on Friday. April book reports on poetry are due Thursday 4/30. Next month's book reports have to do with fairy tales. I'll send home information on Friday.


Math
This week we will continue with decimals. We will discuss place value, ordering and comparing of decimals, problem solving, and estimation of decimals. There will be a checkpoint on Thursday. Thursday's checkpoint can be found on page 404. We also will be taking a mad minute in division 11's.