WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22-29


IMPORTANT DATES:
Spring Picture Day 2/25
Book Reports Due 2/26
Movie Night 2/26

CLASSROOM CHATTER:
Spring Picture Day : Thursday 2/25. Look before you buy. Send no money now. See your portraits first. Simply return any unused portrait sheet with your payment.*PLEASE NOTIFY ME IF YOU DO NOT WANT AN INDIVIDUAL PORTRAIT TAKEN. Additional fliers will be sent home on Tuesday, February 23. Kids on The Block came and taught us about the hearing impaired. We learned many words in sign language. The students really enjoyed this! ISATS are coming soon so please have your student practice healthy habits: getting lots of rest, eating healthy, washing hands and getting exercise!


SPELLING: L22 words ending Y. We will have a pretest on Monday.


ENGLISH: We will continue to work on EXPOSITORY WRITING this week. The students worked together in groups to write about the differences between Prairieview and Elizabeth Ide. They will be presenting their paper to the class. Next week we will work individually on how they could help a new student at Prairieview?

READING: We will continue working on EXTENDED RESPONSES. We have some short stories that we will read and then write and extended response.


SCIENCE: We are finishing Chapter 10 with our unit test on Tuesday 2-23. A study guide was sent home on Friday. We will begin our unit on the water cycle next week.


SOCIAL STUDIES: We are finishing our unit on Making Choices and have our unit test on Wednesday. We will then begin our unit on Egypt. The students will learn many fascinating things and will really enjoy this unit.

MATH: We are having our Chapter test on Geometry on Monday, February 22. It is a big chapter with many different things to know. The students have a review sheet with all the terms on it . Please have them review it over the weekend. Our Geometry Project information and Rubric was sent home on February 17. The project is due Tuesday, March 2. The students should have lots of fun being creative. I have shown them many examples and they can always see me if they have any questions...HAVE FUN WITH IT! We will begin our unit on Measurement this week.