Monday, September 5, No School/Labor Day
Tuesday, September 6, Fourth and Fifth Grade Curriculum Night - Parents Only - 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Monday, September 7, Beginning Band Parent Meeting - 7:00 p.m. - Multi-Purpose Room
Tuesday-Wed. September 13-14 Beginning Band Sign up from 3:00-8:00 p.m
Math - Mrs. Cavoto's Class
This week we will review reading, writing, and identifying the place value of numbers through millions. The students will also compare and order numbers through millions.
Spelling - This week in spelling we will continue to work on commonly misspelled words. The pretest for this lesson will be given on Tuesday, 9/7. Students that score 95% or better on the pretest will receive a different list of spelling words for the week with 10 words on it. They will do specific activities to go with those words. They may choose to take the spelling test with their new words and earn extra points on their grade, or they may elect not to take it.
A test will be given on Friday for those students who do not score 95% or better and during this week they will be given activities to do with their 20 words. A sheet will come home with the activities for each day explaining them. All activities are due on Friday. The test will be on Friday unless there is no school, and then we will have it on Thursday.
Reading This week in reading the students will learn to use skimming and scanning skills to locate answers. During science, social studies, and reading, the students will be given tasks where they have to locate answers in the text. They will practice highlighting key words in questions or clues, and then skim the headlines, subtitles, captions, and passages to help them find the answers to those questions.
English - This week in English we will continue to work on Sentences. There will be a DOL quiz on Friday. This quiz will cover capitalization and end marks in the different kinds of sentences (commands, questions, statements, exclamations). I will give them sentences that need to be edited and they will need to edit them.
Social Studies - We will continue to study U.S. Government and they will work on their "Patriotic Quest" for lesson 2.
Science - Students will understand the steps of the Scientific Method. We will prepare for our worm unit. They should be thinking of a good spot to find a nice juicy worm that they can bring into class. I will let the children know when they should bring them in. More information will follow.
