Showing posts with label The Week of March 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Week of March 8. Show all posts

Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Week of March 8, 2010

Dear Parents:

*We are finished with ISAT testing except for absent student makeup testing!

Thanks to all the parents who provided treats and drinks during ISAT testing!

*This week we have parent/teacher conferences.

*Report Cards = Tuesday!

*No SCHOOL on Friday!

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Thursday is our SCOOPer Reading celebration! Thanks to everyone who is contributing

snacks for our celebration. Congratulations to your child for reading and meeting their goal!

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THIS IS WHAT WE ARE UP TO IN THE CLASSROOM:

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SPELLING: Lesson 25 and word of the week. The workbook is due Thursday, and the test is on Thursday.

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READING:
The stragegy we are focusing on is clarifying by identifying main idea and supporting details.
We are beginning a research unit on China. The children will be using nonfiction resources including the internet to gather facts. The facts will be used to create a travel brochure as a final project.

We will also be focusing on PANDAS this week and doing a creative project "Pandas on Parade".

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SCOOPer READING: The students have set their third trimester goals and have received new packets for book activities.

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ENGLISH: This will be integrated with our China unit.

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SOCIAL STUDIES: We are finishing Chapter 9 this week. Wednesday we will be hilighting our notes for studying. The Chapter 9 test is scheduled for Tuesday, March 16th.

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SCIENCE: Unit E Matter and Energy

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MATH: Chapter 19 "Plane and Solid Figures"

Lesson 1 = Classifying triangles

Lesson 2 = Classifying Quadrilaterals

skipping Lesson 3

Lesson 4 = Solid Figures

skipping Lesson 5

Lesson 6 = Nets for Solid Figures

**A QUEST (quiz/test) is scheduled for Monday, March 15th which will cover the above lessons