Things to Remember:
- Tuesday, Sept. 23 & Thursday, Sept. 25 - Magazine turn in Days
- Thursday, Sept. 25 - Picture Day
- Tuesday, Sept. 30 - Last Magazine turn in day
Spelling The skill this week is words with ea. Many words with ea have different sounds. We will have a test on Friday. Please have your kids practice writing their words at least one time each in cursive.
English We will review writing quotations correctly. The students will also practice writing the title of books correctly.
The test over the skills in unit 5 has been postponed until Wednesday of this week. They should bring their books home to go over the review sections at the end of the chapter.
Reading The children will be reading stories and using their strategies to find phrases and clues which will help them determine the author's view point and probable outcomes of the story. The word study for this week will be on rootwords, prefixes, and suffixes, and compound words.
Math This week in math the students will continue to learn about rounding whole numbers through the millions. They will also use front end estimation to estimate sums and differences, and use mental math strategies to find sums and differences.
Please have them practice addition and subtraction at home. This will help them with the higher level skills in this chapter.
Science In this unit the students are learning the "Big Idea" that living things are grouped according to their characteristics. They learned a cheer to help them know the 5 kingdoms that scientists use to classify living things and some of their characteristic. Ask them if they can teach it to you. This week the children will compare the cells of plants and animals and make their own cells. They will study the characteristics of the one celled organisms - bacteria and protists. You may review these questions with them: What is the building block of all living things? (Cells) What is the part to the cell that controls the functions of the cell? (nucleous) What are one celled organisms with a nucleous? ( protist) What is an organism? ( a living thing) What is the most abundant of all living things? (bacteria)
Social Studies The students will identify the states in the Northeast Region. They complete a map of the Northeast Region labeling the states and the important bodies of water. They will have guidelines as to how it should be filled in and a grade will be taken on accuracy and neatness. We will begin our "train tour" of the Northeast Region at Niagara Falls. The students will identify the two Great Lakes between which Niagara Falls is located, and the two main features for which Niagara Falls is known for.
