Miss Pellin's Post
February 2nd to February 6th

On Thursday, February 12th we will celebrate Valentine's Day. If students choose to pass out Valentine's Day cards, they should get a card for everyone in the class.  There are 21 students in the class. 

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The Twenty-second Week at School:
Science: We will continue the study of matter in chapter 11.  

Social Studies:  We will continue the study of chapter 3 on customs and immigration. Students did an excellent job on their Culture Day presentations!

Math:  We will continue the study of topic 7 on the meaning of division.  

Students have already started taking timed multiplication tests.  All students have passed their multiplication by 2's, 5's, and 10's test.  Some students still need to pass their multiplication by 3's test.  Other students have already passed their 3's test and are on 4's.  They have 3 minutes to complete 24 problems.  Students will have 5 days to pass each multiplication test which they  take daily.  If they pass in less than 5 days then they will move on to a new fact.  Students should be practicing their facts every night.  They will be tested on facts in the following order:

-3's
-4's
-6's
-7's
-8's
-9's
-11's
-12's

Spelling:  This week in spelling we will work on List 15.  There will be a pretest on Monday, February 2nd.  The final test will be on Friday, February 6th.

Reading: We will continue our unit on traditions.  We will work on various strategies with When Lightning Comes in a Jar by Patricia Polacco.  Students will have a vocabulary quiz on words from this story.  The vocabulary quiz will be on Thursday, February 5th.   In addition we will work in our Daily 5 stations on various reading strategies while reading good fit articles and/or books.  

English: Students will be writing in their journals about various topics.  We will also work on autobiographies.  

Things to Remember:

Thursday 2/5:  There will be a vocabulary quiz.  
Friday 2/6:  There will be a spelling test.