Weekly Spotlight:
*Spelling Pretest on Monday.
*Vocabulary Quiz on Tuesday.
*Grade Level Spelling Bee on Wednesday. Best of luck to Amogh and Matthew!
*Early Dismissal (11:00) on Wednesday.
*Wheels, Levers, and Pulley in-school presentation on Thursday.
*Chapter 4, lesson 2 open-book science quiz on Thursday.
*Spelling Test (in cursive) on Friday.
*Time for Kids Quiz on Friday.
*Movie Night on Friday, 6:30-8:45.
Coming Attractions:
*PTO Trivia Night Adult Social on Friday, February 8.
*Valentine's Day Party on Thursday, February 14.
*No school on Monday, February 18 - Presidents' Day.
*Author Night on Tuesday, February 19.
*Spring Pictures on Thursday, February 21.
*Early Dismissal (11:00) on Tuesday, February 26.
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - We will continue our study of the Human Body. The children will take an open-book quiz on chapter 4, lesson 2 on Thursday. We will also spend time creating a life-size diagram of the different body systems we have covered. Our test on chapter 4 will be on Wednesday, Feb. 6. The children will fill out a "how to study" sheet on Friday.
Social Studies - What are the advantages and disadvantages of barges. We will be discovering these this week. The children will have a take-home quiz sent home on Tuesday and due on Thursday. We will also visit the Badlands of South Dakota.
Spelling - Our pretest will be on Monday. Students that miss 1 or none will become challenge spellers. I will give the regular and challenge spelling test to students on Friday. Both of these tests will be taken for a grade out of 20 points.
English - We will continue our unit on Capitalization and Punctuation. Our lessons will be on more uses of commas and the use of quotation marks. Correct use of quotation marks can be very tricky for some students. Please review this concept at home with your child. We will spend 3 days on quotation marks.
Reading - The children will continue working in their COACH book each evening. On Monday, our focus will be on making generalizations. This week we will also continue reading our novel - Matilda. I am hoping we will have time this week to work on an extended reading response.
Mrs. Sulima's Math Spotlight:
Monday - Classifying Triangles by sides and angles. HW: WB 117.
Tuesday - Quadrilaterals. HW: WB 118 & Review for Chapter 10, lesson 1-6 quiz on Thursday.
Wednesday - No math due to Early Dismissal.
Thursday - Chapter 10, lesson 1-6 quiz & Short Response Practice. HW: "Buttons" due Monday, Feb. 4.
Friday - No math due to Wheels, Levers, and Pulleys in-school presentations.
Group 1 Simple Machine Project
Group 2 Simple Machine Project
Group 3 Simple Machine Project
Group 4 Simple Machine Project
