- No School Monday, March 17th: Parent/Teacher Conferences
- No School Tuesday, March 18th: Teacher Institute Day/Election Day
- Lifetouch Picture Packets: Reminder - Payments and/or unwanted pictures must be returned to school by Wednesday, March 19th.
Math - We will review order of operations and the students will learn to use tables to recognize and write equations with two or more operations. There will be a test on Friday over chapter 7 Patterns and Operations. The students should review all the pages in their binders. They may even finish some of the pages, that we did not get to complete during class time, as a review for them. There will be a review sheet sent home to help them review the concepts.
Spelling- No spelling this week.
English - We will begin unit on Adverbs and Prepositions this week. The students will identify adverbs in a sentence. They will recognize whether an adverb tells how, when, or where about the verb.
Reading - We will finish our work with text dependent questions this week and review cause effect relationships this week.
Social Studies - The students will understand why the Midwest is an important agricultural region. They will understand the effect that irrigation has had on the Great Plains. They will know the different farm products that come from the Midwest. A test is planned for the following week on Tuesday over Chapter 8 Midwest Land and Resources. The students should study the notes in their binder, all vocabulary, and the main concepts in from the chapter.
They should know:
What did the melting of the glaciers create
Understand the where the St. Lawrence Seaway and the St. Lawrence River are and their importance to the Midwest (They connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean)
Understand why the flow of the Chicago River was changed
Be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages of shipping goods by barge
Explain the badlands millions of years ago and how and why the climate changed
Explain why the Midwest is an important agricultural region
Understand the Corn Belt
Know the crops grown in the Midwest /main crops in Wisconsin
Understand irrigation
Know how the Great Lakes were formed
Explain how a lock works and why they were built
Explain why the prairie is better for farming than the badlands
Science - There will be a science test over the Human Body on Thursday of this week. The students should study the main vocabulary and concepts from the book, and use all the notes in their binder.
They should know:
the different kinds of joints and muscles
understand how muscles work to move bones
understand the steps in digestion
understand the different systems and main parts in them
understand and be able to explain what happens if you fall and scrape your knee
know the different jobs of the bones
understand and be able to explain how messages are carried from the brain throughout your body.
English - We will begin unit on Adverbs and Prepositions this week. The students will identify adverbs in a sentence. They will recognize whether an adverb tells how, when, or where about the verb.
Reading - We will finish our work with text dependent questions this week and review cause effect relationships this week.
Social Studies - The students will understand why the Midwest is an important agricultural region. They will understand the effect that irrigation has had on the Great Plains. They will know the different farm products that come from the Midwest. A test is planned for the following week on Tuesday over Chapter 8 Midwest Land and Resources. The students should study the notes in their binder, all vocabulary, and the main concepts in from the chapter.
They should know:
What did the melting of the glaciers create
Understand the where the St. Lawrence Seaway and the St. Lawrence River are and their importance to the Midwest (They connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean)
Understand why the flow of the Chicago River was changed
Be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages of shipping goods by barge
Explain the badlands millions of years ago and how and why the climate changed
Explain why the Midwest is an important agricultural region
Understand the Corn Belt
Know the crops grown in the Midwest /main crops in Wisconsin
Understand irrigation
Know how the Great Lakes were formed
Explain how a lock works and why they were built
Explain why the prairie is better for farming than the badlands
Science - There will be a science test over the Human Body on Thursday of this week. The students should study the main vocabulary and concepts from the book, and use all the notes in their binder.
They should know:
the different kinds of joints and muscles
understand how muscles work to move bones
understand the steps in digestion
understand the different systems and main parts in them
understand and be able to explain what happens if you fall and scrape your knee
know the different jobs of the bones
understand and be able to explain how messages are carried from the brain throughout your body.
