Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Week of April 2, 2012

Dear Parents,

WOW! April already! It seems like just yesterday that it was Open House and we were meeting for the first time!

SAVE THE DATES:
Tuesday, April 10th- 8:15 Too Good For Drugs Graduation

Thursday, April 12th - Prairieview Open House and Book Fair

This week we have Bill Bellis, weatherman, from Fox News coming to talk to our 5th grade students!

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM:

Spelling: Lesson 26 and word of the week

SCOOPer Reading: Each student should have at least on book read and activity completed!

Reading: China! This week we begin using a variety of non fiction resources to gather facts on our note taking sheets. Class time will be given on Monday and Tuesday. The note taking sheets need to be completed for Wednesday.
Then, we will begin making a China Travel Brochure with the information we have gathered.
Class time will be given to start the brochure, however it will need to be worked on at home.
The China Travel Brochure will be due on Monday, April 9th.

English: Unit 3 Verbs - Present, Past, and Future Tense Verbs and subject/verb agreement.

Social Studies: Chapter 9 Lesson 2 "Patriots at War"

Science: We will be using science time to do additional activities with China this week.

Math: We will be learning about the relationship between fractions and decimals.
We will review Chapter 12 on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Chapter 12 test is Thursday.