Miss Pellin's PostJanuary 26th - January 30th
Everyone enjoyed taking a few moments on Tuesday, January 20th to watch the inauguration. You might be interested in some capitalization rules. People commonly believe that "president" should be capitalized at all times. According to the Chicago Manual of Style, however, that's not correct. The title is only capitalized when it appears before the president's name. Thus either President Obama or the president are correct!
My home room class is using their newly acquired budget skills to work toward a class pizza party. The class built a projected budget based on earning monopoly money for excellent behavior. Our current budget projects that they will earn a pizza party in seven school days. We hope to learn how to avoid deficit spending!
The Fourth Week of 2009 at School:
Home Room
Science: We will continue to study weather. Students will learn about the water cycle. The key to the water cycle is understanding the three states of matter. One of the vocabulary words this past week was glacier. We talked about ways to save the glaciers and stop global warming. The students are eager to "go green."
Social Studies: There will be a test on Monday, January 26th. The test will cover economics (Chapter 9). Then we will focus on science for the rest of the week.
Language Arts
Spelling: There will be a Spelling test on winter words this Friday, January 30th.
Reading: We will begin reading a new story called Dancing Rainbows. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Thursday, January 29th.
English: There will be a unit test on adjectives and adverbs on Tuesday, January 27th. We will work on a study guide in class on Monday, January 26th. Once the unit test is completed
we will begin an expository writing unit. Math: We will begin multiplication "x9." There will be a mad minute "x9" quiz on Friday, January 30th. We will also begin the study of geometry, Chapter 14. Students will learn many new vocabulary words including isosceles, equilateral, and scalene triangles. They will also learn about different types angles, lines and plane figures.
Things to Remember:
Monday 1/26: There will be a Social Studies test.
Tuesday 1/27: There will be an English test.
Thursday 1/29: There will be a reading vocabulary quiz.
Friday 1/30: There will be a Spelling test. There will be a "mad minute" quiz.
Friday 1/30: There will be a Spelling test. There will be a "mad minute" quiz.
