Dates to Remember:
Fri., 1/8 End of 2nd quarter
Mon., 1/21 No school; Martin Luther King Day
Tues., 1/30 - Early dismissal 11:00
Fri., 2/1 Great America sheets due
The children brought home their Spelling B words on Tuesday. We will have our classroom Spelling B the week of January 21. We will have one practice and then a final spelling B, and the winner and runner-up will represent our class in the grade level Spelling B which will be the week of January 28th.
Math - There is a test scheduled for Wednesday of this week over chapter 6. The students should review the skills that are in their math packet and the papers that they have brought home. They should also bring their textbook home to help them study. They will also have a division 4 fact test on Friday. They should be practicing these at home as well.
Spelling - This week in spelling the students will be working with words that have the /j/ and /s/ sounds. They will have a test on Friday. They will be responsible for workbook pages 44-46 unless they are in the Pretest Group, and then they will be responsible for the activities for the week.
English - This week in English, we will begin a unit on adjectives. They will identify adjectives that tell what kind or how many, and they will identify the nouns they describe. They will also practice elaborating sentences with adjectives.
Reading - The students will continue to read their books this week and apply the reading strategies they have learned since the beginning of the year. The comprehension skill that we will be focusing on next week is drawing
conclusions. Good readers use details in a story to draw conclusions about
characters and events. Students may use graphic organizers to gather details
from a story to draw conclusions. Students will learn that it's possible to
draw more than one conclusion from the same details.
The students will also practice writing summaries that are not too long, not too short, but just right in order to explain the main parts of a chapter. They will use transition words to help them move through their summaries, so that it is not just a listing of events and it helps the reader understand the sequence of the story.
Science - This week our test over chapter 3 lessons 1-3 will be on Tuesday.
The students should know and understand:
all vocabulary
basic needs of all living things
how plants meet their basic needs
Life cycle of a tree-know the stages
learned behaviors-give examples
instincts-give examples
animal adaptations and what they are used for-examples
how fossils help scientists learn about the adaptations of animals over time
hibernation-what happens to an animal's body
extinct animals- give examples
Social Studies- The students will describe how the Southeast changed during the reconstruction and analyze the development of the civil rights movement.
A test is scheduled for Friday of this week over chapter 7 -Lessons 1 and 3
Know and Understand:
all vocabulary and key concepts from lessons 1-3
Cherokee Culture
George Washington
Sequoyah
Trail of Tears
reasons for the Civil War at least 2
effects of the Civil War at least 3
reconstruction/ How did the Southeast change during this time? at least 3 ways
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Freedmen's Bureau
Jim Crow laws and effect on the African Americans in 1877
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Rosa Parks
