Friday, January 27, 2012

Week of January 30-February 3

Important Dates
*Culture Day 1/30 and 1/31
*English Test Wednesday 2/1
*Spelling Test Friday 2/3
*Math test Friday 2/3

Classroom Chatter
*Cancer Smashers: We extended the fundraiser until Monday! Thank you for your contributions! If you would still like to donate, you can send in your money on Monday or donate online. Way to go!

*School Calendar Update:
Friday, February 17, was originally scheduled as a Teacher Institute-- that is not the case any longer. We will be in school that day.
We do have a Teachers' Institute on Tuesday, March 20.
Also, Friday, May 18, (not Thursday, May 17th) is another Early Dismissal/SIP Day

Reading: We will work on reviewing our strategies this week. We will on our novel studies. We will work on extended responses and applying our knowledge about reading strategies to a variety of literature.

English:
The verb test is Wednesday. We then will work on writing our autobiographies.

Spelling:
This week is L. 15. The test and homework is due Friday.

Social Studies
I extended culture day to two days instead of one. I had the students pick which day they wanted to present. We will have half the class present Monday and the rest of the class on Tuesday. We will spend the rest of the week finishing up chapter 3. A study guide will come home mid week. The test will be sometime the following week. Date to still to be determined of the week of Feb 6th.

Mrs. Csorba's Math
We will take a division 4 mad minute. This week we will finish up chapter 6 with time and elapsed time. There will be a CYP on the 2nd half of chapter 6 on Wednesday and the test will be Friday. Students will be allowed to use measurement notes and calculators on both CYP and test.