Things to Remember:
Tuesday, December 8
* Gifts for our service project are due
*Field trip to Drury Lane on Tuesday. We are encouraging the children to dress nicely.
*Home Run Inn pizza lunch on Tuesday (for those who ordered). Please bring a drink.
* Thursday, December 17 - Bowling field trip
*Friday, December 18 - Trip to The Tivoli Theater
*December 21 - January 1- Winter Break - Return to school on January 4.
Math In math this week, the students will review telling and writing time to the second. They will also review elapsed time. There will be a quiz over elapsed time on Tuesday of this week. They should bring home their books to review this lesson in the book. Also this week they will show elapsed time on the calender and understand how to change units of time. They may need your help in reviewing these concepts, because they are difficult to understand. Lessons 6.2 through 6.6 will be covered this week. We will skip lesson 6.5.
The students will need to bring their books back and forth from home to school this week, so they can review at home, but we will also need them in class.
There will be a math test covering the skills in chapter 6 on Thursday, December 17th. The skill in lesson 6.5 will not be on the test.
Spelling- This week in lesson 14 the spelling rule is letters au are usually found at the beginning or in the middle of a word.
English- We will begin a unit on verbs this week.
Reading- We will finish reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The children will participate in a readers theater and act out the play. They will also summarize the story and fill in a story map which shows the sequence of important events and the main elements of the story. They will work on writing a response for the story to show how Scrooge changed from the beginning of the story to the end. They will have to use evidence from the story and their own ideas to show how he changed.
Social Studies - This week the students will begin learning about the Southeast. They will fill in a map for homework which will be graded, and they will have a map test on Thursday to show they know the states in the Southeast and can place them correctly on the map. They are not responsible for spelling of the states for a grade, but I will give points on their point card if they can spell them all correctly. They will earn extra credit points for knowing their capitals.
Science In science this week the children will learn about animal life cycles. They will understand the life cycle of a sea horse and they will understand metamorphosis and the life cycle of a moth.
The test planned for Wednesday of this week has been changed to Friday, December 11.
The students should:
know all vocabulary
study all sheets in their folders
be able to identify a plant that produces seeds and one that produces spores.
What does a seed contain that a spore does not? (food that helps the embryo grow until the new plant can make its own food)
Understand and know the Life cycle of a flowering plant, butterfly and sea horse
examples of direct development
tubers
