~Magazine Turn in = Tuesday, September 29th
~Picture Day = Thursday, October 1st
~"Lunch in the Library" forms due Thursday, October 1st
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HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM:
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SPELLING: Lesson 5 and word of the week
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ENGLISH: Unit 1 Test = Monday
Next, we skip to Unit 5 "Capitalization & Punctuation". This week we will learn more about proper nouns and adjectives and commas in a series.
We will also be doing another MIND MOVER writing activity.
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READING: We are working on the reading strategy of summarizing while reading the book "White Giraffe" which happens to be a Rebecca Caudill award nominee this year.
We will also begin some reading skill work with context clues, roots, and affixes.
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SCOOPer Reading: Your child should have at least one book/activity done by the end of this week. I have about half the class who have completed at least one book/activity. Please ask your child where they are with their book/activity.
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SOCIAL STUDIES: Your child will receive their graded Chapter 4 test. Remember, it's a 5th grade policy that we do NOT send home tests. I will have the children write down their test score in their assignment notebooks.
Chapter 5 - Lesson 1 "Hard Times in Virginia" which includes the lost colony of Roanoke, The Battle of the Spanish Armada, and Jamestown.
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SCIENCE: We will be finishing the introductory unit this week.TEST = MONDAY, OCTOBER 5
The students will receive a "Getting Ready for Science Study Tips" on Wednesday.
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Miss Trefonas's MATH Class:
We are completing Chapter 2 this week.
Quiz over lessons 4 - 6 and a homework sheet = Tuesday.
Chapter Review in class = Wednesday.
Chapter 2 Test = Thursday.
****Multiplication timed tests due date has been extended to Monday, Oct. 5th since I will be absent on Thursday and not able to give the timed tests.
