There is no school on Monday in observance of the Martin L. King, Jr. holiday.
Spelling Bee information....We will be having 2 classroom spelling bees and getting one finalist from each contest. The classroom spelling bees are on Thursday, January 24th and Tuesday. January 29th. The two finalists will then compete in the 5th grade spelling bee with the other 5th grade finalists. The two 5th grade finalists will then compete in the District 66 Spelling Bee on Friday, February 8th which will be held at Prairieview. There will be two finalists competing from each grade level from 3rd grade to 8th grade.
This week we are halfway through the second trimester. Have you checked your child's grades on-line? Progress Reports will be sent home only if your child has any grade(s) that are unsatisfactory which means a D or F.
HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM:
SPELLING: Lesson 20 and “word of the week”!
ENGLISH: We will be finishing Unit 3 verbs this week and testing the week of Jan.28th.
READING: SCOOPer Reading deadline for this trimester is Feb. 29th!
During reading time we are working on our persuasive writing! We have started writing our first draft of our three "body" paragraghs and will write our introduction and conclusion this week.
As we are writing, different persuasive pieces of writing are being shared to show the different writing traits that need to be included in their persuasive writing. The students will be editing and revising their original draft to include these traits. This will be an ongoing process throughout the week. It will definetly give a new meaning to the term "sloppy copy"!
SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 8 – Lesson 2 “The Colonists Rebel”
The events that we have learned about are the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, and the Continental Congress. We will be writing about each of these events for our next installment of our Patriot/Loyalist project. I highly recommend ongoing studying and reviewing of the information in this chapter. There’s a lot of people, events, and vocabulary.
SCIENCE: We are starting the HUMAN BODY! We begin by learning about our different body systems. After reading and notetaking, the students will be doing a word sort as a group activity. They will then generate a note sheet based on the word sort which will be used to study fo a quiz Monday, January 28th.
MATH: We will be doing some T-chart problems this week! This will help prepare the children for the ISAT tests. We will be learning about geometrical patterns, congruent figures, and similar figures. The Chapter 7 Geometry Test will be given the week of January 28th.
T.G.F.D. = This is week six of our ten week program. Remember to do the home activity with your child. A participation grade will be entered as a science grade after the ten weeks.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
MISS TREFONAS
