Its going to be a "Wormy" week!
Monday, Sept. 29 - Worms are due. The students will need to bring an Earthworm to school.They can find this in their backyard or they may go to the store and buy one. Walmart has been a place that many students have found some worms. If you find extra worms, please feel free to send them in It is always good to have extra worms. The students have received information about the habit they will need to create for their worms, and we have discussed this in class.
Remember that at the end of the week they will take their worm home to put back outside, and they will have to bring a new one back to school when they finish their worm tracks, which will be the following week. (More information about race tracks will follow.)
Math - There will be a quiz on Tuesday over lessons 1-4 in unit 2. The students should review the work in their binder and can bring their workbooks home to study. They will also be adding and subtracting multi-digit whole numbers and subtracting across zeros.
Spelling - The students will be working with words that have the short u, /yoo/, and /oo/ sounds. They will be responsible for completing workbook pages 52-54. If they pass out on the pretest, they will be assigned alternate words and activities for the week.
Reading - We will continue to Close read Martin Luther King's, "I have a Dream" speech. The students will write the lessons about courage that they feel MLK is trying to teach through his speech. The students will read a poem, What If...They will create a page in a classroom book about a famous person and his accomplishments and write about what if they did not follow their dream or stay persistent with their goal.
English - We will begin a unit on capitalization and punctuation. The students will proofread sentences for missing capital letters and end marks. They will capitalize names of people, pets, places and things. They will write abbreviations correctly for titles, addresses, months, and days.
Does your child know their address? They should be able to write their address correctly using abbreviations appropriately for streets, roads, avenues and states.
Science - This week we will begin our worm unit. The students will make observations about their worm. Throughout the week they will be setting up the scientific method to test their hypothesis.
Social Studies - The students will identify the key steps in the production of maple syrup. They will explain why grapes grow well in certain areas of the Northeast.
