Friday, January 24, 2014

Week of 1/27

Odds and Ends: 

*Spelling Bee: We will have our final classroom spelling bee on Tues. 1/28. The top 2 spellers will advance to the grade level bee on Thurs. 1/30. We had a practice round this week so students are familiar with the set up. Good luck to all of the students!

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

*Tues. 1/28: Classroom Spelling Bee
Math: Ch. 7 Test
Reading: Night of the Pufflings Vocab. review

*Wed. 1/29: Culture Day Presentations

*Thurs. 1/30: Culture Day Presentations
Grade Level Spelling Bee

*Fri. 1/31: Spelling: List 15
Spirit Day: College Day: Wear your favorite college shirt


A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK :

*Reading: We will work on novel studies as we learn about authors purpose, point of view, and fact and opinion. We will also work on Night of the Pufflings. 

Also, I made an error when assigning the due date of the January reading calendar. They will be due on Mon. 2/3. Thanks!

*English: We will continue to work on ch. 4 adjectives and adverbs. We will be taking the final test on Wed. 2/5.

*Spelling: We will work on list 15 this week. The homework will be due Thurs. and the final test will be on Friday.

*Social Studies: We will be wrapping up our unit on ch. 3 culture and immigration in the upcoming weeks. We are looking forward to learning more about each others cultures and family traditions during our culture presentations this week. The ch. 3 test is tentatively scheduled for Tues. 2/4. More information coming soon.

*Science: We will begin our unit on Energy next week. We will begin with kinetic and potential energy in lesson 1.

*Math: We will wrap up ch. 7 this week and review Mon. The test will be Tues. 1/28. The test will cover multiplication and division facts for 3's, 4's, 0's, and 1's, as well as understanding the vocabulary decompose and known fact. Students will also be tested on problem solving with problems that have extra or missing information. A study guide was sent home with your child this week. We will also work on 6's multiplication and division facts this week as we begin ch. 8.

Enjoy the weekend and try to stay warm!

Mrs.Olsen