Dates to Remember:
Monday, February 20 - No School, President's Day
Thursday, February 23 - Spring Pictures
Tuesday, February 28 - Early Dismissal 11:00
Friday, March 2 - End of Trimester
Monday, March 5 - Casimir Pulaski Day - No School
Our Valentine's Day Party was a huge success. Thank you so much to the parents for sending in wonderful treats and planning exciting and fun games. A great time was had by all!
Math In math this week, we will be working with customary capacity units of measure and then moving on to metric units of measure. There will be a quiz to show understanding of converting standard units of measure and measuring to the nearest 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 inch on Friday of this week.
The students will also solve different kinds of problems and practice writing explanations to them.
Spelling This week in spelling the students will work with words that have ed and ing endings. They will review the rules for spelling words with special patterns. Workbook pages 252-254 will be assigned this week.
Reading We will continue to work with our target genre - poetry. The students will understand the elements of poetry, and they will work with figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, and idioms. The students are writing different kinds of poems for their poetry books.
The students will also read fiction and nonfiction passages and be assessed in their comprehension and the reading skills and strategies they have learned this year.
English This week the students will work on their written responses to literature. They will read passages and write a response which will include the support of the text, their own ideas, and their knowledge of the overall theme of the passage.
Science We will continue to work with electricity this week. The students will experiment with insulators and conductors of electricity.
Social Studies This week the students will be assessed on their knowledge of the Ojibwa Native Americans of the Midwest. They will be give guidelines to follow to illustrate the Native American culture of the Ojibwa.
