Dates to Remember:
Wednesday, Dec. 19 - Bowling Field Trip in P.M
Friday, Dec. 21 - Tivoli Field Trip
Math - We will begin a new unit this week. The students will study the properties of multiplication and they will write multiplication and division expressions and find the value of the expressions. They will also learn the orders of operations. They will follow the orders of operations to find the value of each expression. We will continue to review multiplication and division facts, and a fact test will be given each Friday, so the students should continue to study their facts.There will be a quiz over chapter 5 lessons 1-4 on Tuesday, Dec. 4th.
Spelling - This week the students will be working with words that have the /ir/,/ar/ sounds. They will be working on pages 152-154 in their books. If they passed the pretest, they will do the activities assigned for the week. There will be a test on Friday of this week.
Reading - Over the next couple of weeks we will be reviewing the skills that we have gone over since the beginning of the year. We'll also work on summarizing and making generalizations. In writing summaries, your child will learn to pick out the main points or events of a story or passage and concisely put them in their own words. In making generalizations, the stu dents will learn that generalizations are broad statements that are true most of the time, and are based on fact or good reasons, and may include words like always and most.
English - We will continue our work with descriptive writing. The students will research an animal from the southeast, and they will write a descriptive paragraph on it. They are working on using a variety of sentences and figurative language in their descriptive, as well as including an interesting hook and zinger of a closing.
Social Studies - The students will work on their maps of the Southeast. This is due on Wednesday of this week. There will be a southeast map test on Thursday. They will place the states correctly on the map along with the important water areas- Mississippi River, Atlantic Ocean, and The Gulf of Mexico. They can earn extra points for knowing their capitals, but they are not expected to know them. They will review the major land forms of the southeast, including barrier islands, wetlands, inner and outer coastal plains, Piedmont Appalachian Mountains.
Science - In science this week, we will review the life cycle of flowering plants, and compare that to those that reproduce using only spores.The students will also order and describe the stages of different animals' life cycles They will be able to describe how some animals grow and develop. A test over chapter 2 lessons 2 & 3 is scheduled for Wednesday, December 5th.
