Weekly Reminders:*Lesson 29 spelling pretest on Monday.
*Project Challenge on Tuesday.
*Verb Test on Wednesday.
*Jr. Achievement on Thursday.
*Spring Open House on Thursday from 6:45-8:30. HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!
*Favorite band/music/choir group shirt on Friday.
*Lesson 29 spelling test on Friday.
A reminder from the office to those students who purchase lunch tickets:
Students are NOT to be coming in daily and having to go down to the office to purchase a lunch ticket. They should only be coming in occasionally when they don't have a lunch &/or ran out of tickets. They are to bring exact change ($2.25). Students need to be bringing in money to buy multiple lunch tickets on the FIRST DAY of the school week. Too many students are bringing in money to buy lunch tickets all throughout the week.
Classroom Happenings:
English: Those children who received 89% or lower on the verb pretest will be taking the verb test on Wednesday. They should look over the sections they missed on the pretest. If your children received higher than 89% and would like to take the test on Wednesday, they may do so. I will take the higher of the two grades. Throughout this week, the children will be working on their verb ABC books. We will work on these for the next couple weeks.
Reading: The children will work on their "book club" concertinas. A grading sheet has been given to each child. These projects will be due on Thursday. They will have time in class on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. If they are not finished by the end of reading on Wednesday, they will need to complete it for homework that evening.
Science: We will continue our Earth Science unit. The children have observed the color, luster, texture, and hardness of 13 minerals. They have also done three specific mineral tests - magnet, streak, and vinegar. We will begin this week by discovering the specific gravity (weight) and cleavage (how it breaks) of the 13 minerals. We will use all the information on our mineral chart to try to identify the mystery minerals. We will take a quiz on minerals, properties, and the tests we used on Thursday.
Social Studies: It is time for another map test. Since the Southwest region only has four states, we will be taking a test on all the states in the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and Southwest. There are 39 states in these 4 regions. The children will need to know how to spelling all the state names. If they would like to earn bonus points, they can identify the state capitals. For every 5 correct captials, they will earn 1/2 a point. Our 39 state test will be on Thursday, April 24. During the week, we will finish our study of Illinois. We will also continue the Midwest section of our region scrapbooks.
Math: Fractions will continue. On Monday, we will learn how to add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators. On Tuesday and Friday, we will explore adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. The children will need to find a common denominator before they can solve these problems. Our test on this unit will be on Tuesday, April 22.
Website of the Week:
Practice for the 39 state test at...
http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html
