Weekly Reminders:*No school on Monday - Presidents' Day.
*PTO Dine-Out on Monday - Noodles & Company. Click here for more information: http://www.ccsd66.org/PTO/FundRaisers/noodles.pdf
*Spelling Pretest on Tuesday.
*Midterm Math Evaluation on Thursday.
*Spring Pictures on Thursday.
*Basketball test on Friday.
*Chapter 8, lesson 3 Social Studies quiz on Friday.
*Spelling Test on Friday.
*End of Trimester on Friday.
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Plan Ahead:
*Chapter 15, lesson 2 Science quiz on Monday, February 28.
*ISAT Testing on Tuesday, March 1, Wednesday, March 2, Thursday, March 3, & Wednesday, March 9.
*Parent Teacher Conferences during the week of February 28.
*Report Cards issued on Tuesday, March 1.
*No School on Friday, March 4.
*No school on Monday, March 7 - Pulaski Day.
*Chapter 8 Social Studies test on Tuesday, March 8.
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Homeroom Happenings:
Science - We will continue to work with chapter 15, lesson 2. This lesson will relate magnetism and electricity. We will focus on magnetic poles, attracting & repelling, electromagnets, motors, and other uses of magnetism. An open book/notes quiz on this lesson will be on Monday, February 28.
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Social Studies - Our study of the Midwest will continue. We will work on Chapter 8, lesson 3. This lesson will focus on the importance of agriculture in the Midwest. An open book/notes quiz will be on Friday.
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Spelling - Our spelling pretest will be on Tuesday. The final test, which will need to be done in cursive, will be on Friday. A note will be sent home on Tuesday explaining our spelling procedures for 3rd Trimester. We will be following the same procedures they will follow in 5th grade.
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Reading -In reading this week our continued target genre is poetry. The students will understand the elements of poetry, and they will work with figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification, and idioms. A poetry project will be assigned and the students will be working on that in class and at home over the next couple of weeks. Along with poetry, the students will also be working on writing extended responses which will connect with their reading passages. I have extended the due date on the Poetry project to Thursday, March 3. This will allow enough time for children to complete all poems, bind their books, have at least 4 people read and comment on their poetry (not done in school), and to self-reflect on their project.
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Accelerated Math Menu:
Monday - No School.
Tuesday - Customary and Metric Measurement Review (length, weight/mass, and capacity). HW: Measurement practice.
Wednesday - 3-D shapes review. HW: Extended Response.
Thursday - Midterm Evaluation. HW: Extended Response.
Friday - Trivia Challenge. HW: Extended Response.
