Important Dates:
Monday, 11/ 23 Roller Skating Party
Wednesday 11/25-11/27 No School Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday 12/15 Early Dismissal
Math -We will finish our November Number Corner activities learning about fractions and measurement next week. The following week we will begin Unit 3, Fractions and Decimals.
Spelling: There will not be any spelling Thanksgiving week. The week of November 30th all students spelling list will be of the Southeast states. They will be expected to learn the spelling for their test and when they take the Southeast map quiz.
English- We will continue work with prepositions. They will work with the homophones to, too, and two and there and their.
Reading- This week the students will work with prefixes non, bi, tri, quad, oct. They will understand their origins and know their meanings. We will begin our unit on mythology. We will study Hercules. The students will define hero based on modern culture as a class and then work to identify traits both good and bad of Hercules. They will compare and contrast the traits of a hero to the traits of Heracles (Hercules. They will determine whether Heracles was a hero.
Science: This week they will learn the life cycles of some animals. There will be a test on Friday, Dec. 4 over Chapter 2 lessons 2 & 3. They should study the lessons in the textbook and know the important concepts. They should know all vocabulary.
They should also:
understand how ferns and mosses reproduce
tubers
how most animals begin the life cycle
understand the parts of the plant and what they do
understand the life cycles of the animals in the text
understand the different kinds of life cycles and know what the different stages are: incomplete metamorphosis, complete metamorphosis, direct development
What are the stages of the human lifecycle? Be able to name and describe them
know the stages of a butterfly
