October 3rd - October 7thThank you so much for sending in apples for Johnny Appleseed's birthday! Also, thank you to the parents who sent in extra supplies as well!
Scholastic Book Orders: Book orders are due on October 12th. There are directions attached to the order forms for purchasing the books online, but this is not a requirement. Our class code is J9D78.
The Seventh Week of 2011 at School:
Science: We will finish the study of chapter 4 on ecosystems. There will be a chapter 4 test on Friday, October 7th. Students will receive a study guide on Monday, October 3rd.
Social Studies: This week we will focus on science.
Math: We will study place value and problem solving in chapter 1.
Spelling: We are pretesting with List #6 on Monday of next week. Please remember that if your student receives a 90% or higher they will be working from the "challenge" list of words for their homework. All homework is due on Friday and if your student is taking the posttest, that will be Friday as well.
Reading: We will focus on the reading strategy inferencing. The students will use basal reading stories, supplemental short stories, and possibly novels to extend their practice of understanding what they read. Students will learn new vocabulary words from stories they are reading. We will also continue to work on an extended response where we use ideas from the text combined with our own ideas to answer a question.
English: We will continue the study of descriptive writing.
Things to Remember:
Friday 10/7: There will be a spelling test and a science test.
Thursday 10/13: The vocabulary quiz has been moved to 10/13.
