Weekly Events:
*Spelling pretest on Monday.
*Chapter 5, lesson 1 science quiz on Monday.
*Curriculum Night (Parents Only) on Tuesday, 6:30-7:30.
*Unit 1, lessons 1-3 English quiz on Wednesday.
*Lakeview Band performs for Prairieview students on Wednesday.
*Crazy Hair Day on Friday.
*Spelling test on Friday - print or cursive.
Curriculum Night:
4th and 5th Grade Curriculum Night is on Tuesday, Sept. 17!
6:30-6:45 Meet in the gym with Mrs. Schultz
6:45-7:00 Meet in your child's math classroom
7:00-7:30 Meet in your child's homeroom
Homeroom Happenings:
Spelling - We will work on Week 3 spelling words. The children will take the pretest on Monday. The regular and challenge tests will be on Friday. Students may choose to write in print or cursive. All spelling homework is due Friday.
English - We will continue Unit 1 this week. The children learned about 4 types of sentences last week - declarative (statement), interrogative (question), imperative (command), and exclamatory (exclamation). We will continue to practice these this week. We will also review subject and predicates. On Thursday, the children will take a quiz on lessons 1-3. We will end the week by finding the simple subject in a complete subject.
Reading - Our Tall Tales unit will continue. We will read Paul Bunyan and John Henry. We will also explore a type of figurative language called hyperbole. The children will also find out about our first trimester reading project on Thursday. They will be reading a historical fiction book and making a memory bag to show different parts of the story. This project will not be due until November. More information will be sent home or posted on my blog during the month of October.
Science - The children will take a lesson 1 quiz on Monday. This quiz will not be open book. I am hoping that your child has been completing their homework each night which has been to review their notes and vocabulary. If they have done that then they should be well prepared for the quiz. I suggested to the children to take their textbook home. Rereading the lesson could also be helpful in preparing for this quiz. We will continue focusing on photosynthesis throughout the week. At the end of the week, we will record the lesson 2 vocabulary in our science spirals.
Social Studies - Our focus has been on Christopher Columbus and his multiple expeditions to the "New Land." This week the children will write a letter, as Christopher Columbus, to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella persuading them to fund a second trip. We will work on these in class, but some rough draft work and editing may need to be completed at home. We will end the week by learning about the Aztecs.
Mrs. Sulima's Math Class:
The students did a wonderful job on their first "Project-Based Learning" activity. They are stupendous party planners! We will continue our focus on decimals this week. The children should be able to add, subtract, and multiply decimals. We will do some work on dividing with decimals, too. Knowing these skills will help the children with many activities that we will do throughout this school year.
