Weekly Spotlight:*No school on Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday.
*Conferences on Monday, November 28, Tuesday, November 29, and Wednesday, November 30 (with homeroom teacher).
*Spelling pretest on Monday, November 28.
*Report cards issued online on Tuesday, November 29.
*Spelling test on Thursday, Dec. 1.
*Chapter 6 Social Studies test on Thursday, Dec. 1.
*No school on Friday, Dec. 2.
Coming Attractions:
*Chapter 3 science test on Wednesday, Dec. 7.
*All-school concert on Thursday, Dec. 8.
*Fourth Grade bowling field trip on Friday, Dec. 9.
*Winter Break begins Monday, Dec. 19.
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - We will learn about how living things of long ago compare with living things today. This will be the last lesson in Chapter 3. Our test on chapter 3 will be on Wednesday, Dec. 7. The following week, we will begin our study of the Human Body.
Social Studies - Students are finishing their Southeast farmer projects. They will be due no later than Tuesday. We will finish this lesson by discussing other resources of the southeast - pulp and fossil fuels. The children will take a test on Chapter 6 on Thursday Dec. 1. Our study of the southeast will conclude by exploring the life of a Native American tribe, the Cherokee, from the southeast.
Items to review for the chapter 6 test are:
*Key words: barrier islands, hurricane, wetlands, hurricane season, key, fall line, fossil fuel, Piedmont, Inner Coastal Plains, Outer Coastal Plains, endangered species, extinct, & pulp.
*Why are hurricanes dangerous?
*Name some crops from the Southeast. Why do these crops grow well in the Southeast.
*If you were going on a trip to the Southeast, where would you go and why? All theme parks (Disney World, Epcot Center, Universal Studios, etc.) are closed!!!!
Spelling - Second trimester has begun...that means CURSIVE writing. All final spelling tests will be written in cursive. We will not be doing a spelling unit during the week of Nov. 21. We will take a pretest on Monday, November 28 and have our spelling test on Thursday, Dec. 1. Watch for trimester 2 spelling changes!
English - We will begin our unit on Capitalization and Punctuation during the week of Nov. 28. The lessons we will cover are: correcting sentences, names of people and pets, names of places and things, and abbreviations.
Reading - Over the next couple of weeks we will be reviewing the skills that we have learned and practiced since the beginning of the year. The students will also work on summarizing and making generalizations. In writing summaries, the students will learn to pick out the main points or events of a story or passage and concisely put them in their own words. In making generalizations, the studentswill learn that generalizations are broad statements that are true most of the time, and are based on fact or good reasons, and may include words like always or most.
Mrs. Sulima's Math Spotlight:
Monday - Check your Progress quiz ~ open book/notes.
Tuesday - Extended response assessment. We will not be taking an end of the chapter test on chapter 3.
Wednesday thru Friday - No school ~ Thanksgiving Break.
**I will not be following the order of our textbook for our Data and Statistics unit. Many of the concepts are in our book, but I do go beyond what is in the book.**
Monday, Nov. 28 - We will begin a unit on Data and Statistics. Qualitative and Quantitative.
Tuesday, Nov. 29 - Data Distributions ~ Tally Charts, Frequency Charts, & Line Plots.
Wednesday, Nov. 30 - Summarizing Data ~ Mean, Median, Mode, & Range.
Thursday, Dec. 1 - Graphing Data ~ Bar Graphs & Double Bar Graphs.
Friday, Dec. 2 - No school.
MAP Practice Games:
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/pages/studentlinks/map/reading.htm
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/pages/studentlinks/map/
http://www.belleplaine.k12.mn.us/se3bin/clientgenie.cgi?schoolname=school357&statusFlag=goGenie&geniesite=133&myButton=g5plugin&db=g133_b545
