Monday, May 5, 2008

The Week of 5-5-08

Dear Parents,
We have been learning and playing various language arts games to enhance skills like spelling, vocabulary, creative and critical thinking. The games we have been playing are You've Been Sentenced, Boggle, In a Pickle, and Scrabble.
HELP WANTED......
If you'd like to purchase a game, we could use more of these games:
~Boggle ~Scrabble ~In a Pickle (Target sells this game) ~Upwords


HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM:
SPELLING: Lesson 32 and word of the week
ENGLISH: Unit 6 Pronoun Test = Tuesday, May 6th.... Next, we begin Unit 7 Adverbs.
READING: Flap Books will be the culminating activity for our Book Clubs.
SCOOPer Reading = Deadline is May 23rd.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 11 Test is Monday, May 5th.
SCIENCE: Human Body - Nutrition
MATH: Fractions - Chapter 9....Checkpoint quiz is Tuesday. The quiz is taken from problems on p.348 in the textbook.
WELCOME SPRING!!!!
MISS TREFONAS