Weekly Reminders:
*Lesson 34 spelling pretest on Monday.
*Chapter 15, lesson 4 science quiz on Monday.
*Fifty State Test on Thursday.
*Last Visit to Lakeview Library on Thursday. Please return books.
*All-School Concert at 1:15 on Thursday.
*Beginning Band Concert Thursday Night at 7:00.
*Lesson 34 spelling test on Friday.
Plan Ahead:
*No school on Monday, May 25 - Memorial Day.
*Fourth Grade Bowling Trip on Friday, May 29 in the afternoon.
Classroom Happenings:
Science - We will take an open book quiz on chapter 15, lesson 4 on Monday. The children will not take a test on this chapter. We will move right into chapter 16 - Forces and Motion.
Social Studies - We are finishing our study of the Southwest region this week. The children are working on a desert postage stamp project. Midweek we will begin our final region - The West.
Accelerated Math - We will begin chapter 8 on Monday. No pretest will be given for this chapter. I will be covering the important lessons this week with a checkpoint review on Friday. We will cover multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100, and 1,000, estimating the products of a whole number and a decimal, multiplying a decimal by a whole number, multiplying decimals, and dividing decimals.
Spelling - This will be our last week of spelling. We will cover lesson 34. This lesson focuses on words with the suffixes ment or ness. SPECIAL NEWS: If a student misses 2 or less words this week they will not have spelling for the week. If they want to improve their score, they can take the spelling test on Friday. There will not be an alternate spelling group this week.
English - The children did a wonderful job on their poetry books. The grade for these books will be in the language arts gradebook.
Reading - We will begin our Chris Van Allsburg study.
