Friday, February 4, 2011

Week of February 7-11

Important Dates
*100th day of School Wed. 2/9
*Spelling Test Friday 2/11

Classroom Chatter
Hope everyone enjoyed the snow days! We rescheduled our in school field trip, Matter Matters, for Monday, 2/14.

Spelling: This week's list is L. 16 "adding endings" to words. The test is Friday. Homework is due Friday.

Reading: We will continue working on identifying main idea and details this week. We will also work on writing some extended responses to text we read.

English: We will spend this week learning about introductory words, commas in a series, writing good sentences, and quotation marks. We are coming to the end of this unit. I have the test tentatively planned for the following week. Right now it is scheduled for Wednesday, 2/16.

Science
We will begin chapter 12 on energy!

Social Studies
We will spend this week learning about Cleopatra and King Tut.

Math
We will finish up taking a mad minute in mixes. Start practicing division facts for the week of 2/14! We will study similar figures, flips, slides & turns, coordinate graphs, and some problem solving with and without extended responses to finish up chapter 10.