January 16 - Early Dismissal 11:00
January 19- No school - Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
January 30 - Read to Succeed sheets for Great America are due.
Math - This week in math the students will use place value and models to solve division problems. They will also divide with remainders. Please continue to work on division facts with your child. There will be a division fact test next week Jan. 21 on Wednesday for 7 & 8's.
Reading- The students will finish their reading research project this week and complete their flip books on the computer.
English- The students will finish writing their hero essays this week.
Science- In science this week, the students will learn about natural selection. This is the process by which organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and produce offspring. For example, giraffes necks did not grow longer because they wanted to reach high into the trees. Giraffes that already had the long neck trait were better able to survive and reproduce,
Social Studies-We will begin a unit on the Midwest Region this week. The students will have a map quiz of the Midwest on Thursday of this week. They will need to place the states and bodies of water in the correct spot on the map. They will bring home a map to color that is due on Wednesday.
