~Happy New Year!!!
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~IOWA testing begins the week of January 11th.
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HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM:
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SPELLING: Lesson 15 and word of the week
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ENGLISH: Verbs - Unit 3 Lessons 7 - 10
We will be learning future tense verbs, subject/verb agreement and reviewing contractions.
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READING:
Monday - Running Out of Time - last book club meeting and discussion sheets are due.
The rest of the week we will be practing different reading skills from our ISAT practice books.
"Using prior knowledge and setting a purpose for reading" and "Author's Purpose".
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SCOOPer Reading = Remember this is a self paced independent reading program and your child has set a goal to reach by the end of the trimester. Book activities can only be turned in one at a time. I have a feeling that I will be getting a lot of book activities this week after our winter break.
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SOCIAL STUDIES = Chapter 7 "Fight for a Continent"
We will be learning about the French and Spanish trying to claim more land.
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SCIENCE = Chapter 6 test = Weds. It will be an open note (not book) test.
The students can use all the note sheets and quizzes from Chapter 6.
OWL PELLETS.....We will be doing a hands-on activity and dissecting the pellets at the end of the week! The students will be sorting, classifying, and identifying what they discover in the pellet.
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MATH = Chapter 6 test = Weds.
We will be doing review activities in class prior to the test,
Extended Response math questions, which are on the ISAT test, is what we will be working on the rest of the week.
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