Weekly Spotlight:
*No school on Monday - Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
*Spelling Pretest on Tuesday.
*Week 6 Vocabulary Quiz on Tuesday.
*Classroom Spelling Bee on Tuesday.
*On Thursday we will follow a Monday Schedule - the children will have music.
*Spelling Test on Friday.
*Bingo Night on Friday.
Coming Attractions:
*Early Dismissal on Wednesday, January 30.
*Wheels, Levers, and Pulleys In-School Presentation on Thursday, January 31.
*Movie Night on Friday, February 1.
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - We will continue our study of the human body. The children will explore the nervous system, skeletal system, and muscular system. They should review their notes each night.
Social Studies - Our Midwest Test will be on Tuesday, February 5. The children will need to correctly locate and identify all the Midwest states, four of the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River. Spelling will count. Students can earn 1/4 point bonus for each correctly identified capital city.
Spelling - This week begins 3rd Quarter!! Our spelling procedure is changing a bit. The children will still have 20 words each week. On Friday, the children will need to write their spelling tests in cursive. Each week a cursive practice sheet will come home with their list. To become a challenge speller, the children will only be allowed to miss one word on the pretest. If your child becomes a challenge speller, they will receive a list of challenge words. This weeks words are from our novel, Matilda. They will also receive a list of activities for the week. Activities will be due on Friday. Regular and Challenge spellers will take their tests on Friday. I will give both tests in the classroom.
English - We will continue our unit on Capitalization and Punctuation. This week we will work with abbreviations and commas in a series.
Reading - The children will continue reading Matilda this week. We will be doing character trait and generalizing activities. Students will continue to work on COACH pages each evening.
Mrs. Sulima's Math Spotlight:
Monday - No school
Tuesday - Geometric Ideas. HW: P 7-1 sheet.
Wednesday - Polygons. HW: E 7-4 sheet.
Thursday - Identifying Angles. Congruent and Similar Figures. HW: WB pgs. 114-116.
Friday: Trivia Challenge. HW: None.
