Things to Remember:
Thursday, February 26 Spring Picture Day
Monday, March 2 No School- Casmir Polaski Day
Tuesday, March 3-Monday, March 9 ISAT Testing
Monday, March 9 -Wednesday, March 11 Conference Week
Spelling - This week in spelling the pattern is in words with tch or ch. Use tch immediately after a single, short vowel in a one-syllable word. Use ch in most other words.
Language Arts - This week the students will review their knowledge of rootwords, prefixes and suffixes. They will read and compare the different genres of literature: fables, folktales, fairytales, and myths. They will also be working on their responses to literature.
Social Studies - This week in social studies the students will learn about the factors that led some Native American groups in the Midwest to lose their land. They will also identify the challenges that the Midwestern settlers faced and what they had to do to overcome those challenges.
Science - This week the students will review how velocity relates to acceleration and how forces cause acceleration. They will also review how force and mass effect acceleration. The students will learn this week why the force of gravity is important. They will understand the affect friction has on motion and where it occurs.-
Please send in toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls for an experiment.
Math The students will review classifying triangles. They will learn about the different kinds of quadralaterals: parallelograms, rhombus, and trapezoid. They will also identify, draw and lable parts of a circle. They will work on their problems solving skills and writing explanations.
