Weekly Reminders: *No school on Monday, January 19.
*Wear Red, White, and Blue on Tuesday.
*Home Run Inn Fundraiser on Monday. Click here for a coupon. http://www.ccsd66.org/PTO/HRI_Jan19_09.pdf
*Tuesday we will follow a Monday schedule therefore we will have library.
*Chapter 6 open book social studies test on Wednesday.
*Chapter 1, lesson 3 open book science quiz on Friday.
Plan Ahead:
*Geometry test on Tuesday, January 27.
*Chapter 1 science test on Wednesday, January 28.
We are now half way through the second trimester. Please review your child's grades. There are six weeks left in this trimester.
We would like to welcome Ms. Jocylyn Pluta to our classroom. She will be student teaching in our classroom for 8 weeks. After working with us, she will be traveling to France to complete her student teaching. Since she is only with us for such a short time, she will be taking over teaching responsibilities quickly. We will keep you informed on what subjects Ms. Pluta is teaching.
Classroom Spelling Bee:We will have a practice classroom spelling bee on Tuesday, January 20. Each child received a list of words that I will be using for our spelling bees. On Tuesday, January 27, we will have our final classroom spelling bee. Our top 2 spellers will go to a fourth grade spell-off during the week of February 2. The winner of the fourth grade spell-off will compete against the winners from grades 3-8 in a district spelling bee on February 11. I wish you all the best of luck...L-U-C-K!!!!!
Classroom Happenings:
Science - Our focus this week will be on classifying animals. Much of this will be a review from last school year. We will also learn about vertebrates and invertebrates. The children will take an open book quiz on lesson 3 on Friday.
Social Studies - The children will take an open book chapter 6 test on Wednesday. We will then move onto chapter 7 and will move through this chapter very quickly. At the end of this week, we will learn about the Cherokee Tribe and early history of the southeast. We will finish chapter 7 during the week of January 26.
Accelerated Math - This week we will continue our unit on Geometry. The children will decide if shapes are congruent, similar, and symmetrical. We will also explore transformations. On Wednesday, the children will learn to use a compass. We will end the week by looking at solid 3-D shapes. Our Geometry test will be on Tuesday, January 27.
Spelling - This is a review week. We will not take a pretest at the beginning of the week. The children will have spelling homework each evening. During review weeks the children should not focus on specific words but instead review all the spelling rules from lessons 10-16. On Friday, we will take the type of test where the children find the word that is misspelled in a list of words.
English - The children took the adjective pretest on Wednesday, January 14. On Tuesday, we will begin with our first lesson on what is an adjective. On Wednesday, the lesson will focus on adjectives after be. On Thursday, I will not teach a lesson because all the children passed out of the lesson on using a, an, and the. I will give the students English time to work on their enrichment projects on this day.
Reading - We will finish our study of the Civil Rights Movement by learning more about Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Ruby Bridges. During class, we will also continue to work on reading skills and strategies to help prepare us for the ISAT tests that are quickly approaching. At the end of the week, we will begin our next reading unit - MYSTERIES! Your children will become the reading detectives.
