Dates to Remember:
Tuesday, February 14 - Valentine's Day party 1:30
Monday, February 20 - No School President's Day
Tuesday, February 28 - Early Dismissal 11:00
Math - This week the students will identify, classify, describe, and make plane and solid figures. They will also identify and describe solid figures by their nets and from different perspectives. There will be a test covering lessons 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.6 from chapter 20 and lessons 21. 1, 21.3, 21.4, on Friday of this week.
Spelling This week in spelling the students will work with more words that follow the VCCV pattern. They will learn that when there are two consonants between two vowels, you divide between the two consonants. Workbook pages 91-93 should be completed this week.
Reading This week we will begin our study of poetry. We will focus on some of the elements of poetry including rhyme, sensory words, figurative language, and wordplay. The children will also begin a poetry project. In this project, the children will be learning about and writing many different kinds of poems. Time will be given in class, but students will also need to work on this project at home. We will be working on poetry and figurative language for the next few weeks.
English - The students will write with adjectives this week. They will use adjectives in their poetry to describe color, size, shape and other details. They will use and identify adjectives that follow the form of be. They will also understand that a, an, and the are special adjectives called article.
We will continue to work on our extended reading responses in both English and Reading.
Science - We will finish putting our human bodies together. Then we will begin a unit on electricity. The Essential Question is: What is Electricity?
Social Studies - We will review the changes in climate and compare the badlands from millions of years ago to today. The students will also understand and explain why the Midwest is an important agricultural region. They will understand irrigation, and how rainfall in the Midwest affects the growth of crops. They will identify crops grown in the Midwest.
We will have a test over the Land and Water of the Midwest on Thursday of this week. The students should study:
The main concepts at the end of each section in the book
Know all vocabulary
Name the five Great Lakes
Be able to explain how the Great Lakes were formed
What effect did changing the flow of the Chicago River have on transporting goods from Lake Michigan? (It made it easier to transport goods to and from Lake Michigan by linking Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River)
Be ready to explain how a lock work and why they are needed
the advantages and disadvantages of shipping by barge(know two advantages and two disadvantages)
Describe the badlands millions of years ago
Why did the climate of the badlands change?
Why are the prairies better for farming than the Badlands?
Why is the Midwest an important agricultural region?
Name at least 5 products that come from the Midwest
Product of Wisconsin?
