Weekly Events:
*Spelling pretest on Monday.
*Preposition quiz on Monday.
*Magazine Dive kick-off on Tuesday.
*Spelling test on Friday - print or cursive.
*Time for Kids quiz on Friday. Don't forget to bring your TFK back to school on Friday.
Upcoming Events:
*5th Grade Curriculum Night on Tuesday, September 17 at 6:30.
Homeroom Happenings:
Spelling - The students did a wonderful job with our weekly spelling routine. We will take the week 2 spelling pretest on Monday. On Friday, spelling homework will be due, and the students will take either the regular or challenge test.
English - On Monday, the children will be taking a preposition quiz. They will need to be able to find the prepositional phrase in the sentence. Also, they should know where the preposition and object are in each prepositional phrase. Students should watch out for compound objects. All of these concepts have been covered in class. The children should have study tools in their English pocket.
Reading - We will begin our Tall Tales unit. In this unit, we will identify the elements of a tall tale. The children will receive a vocabulary list on Monday. They should review the words each night to prepare for a vocabulary quiz on Thursday. Throughout the week, we will be reading different tall tales and discussing a type of figurative language called hyperbole.
Science - Hopefully your child told you about the "sewer maggots" experiment. If not, ask them about it! We will now begin our first unit on Energy and Ecosystems. This week we will begin the answer the question - How do Plants Produce Food? Our vocabulary for this unit included: transpiration, photosynthesis, chlorophyll, producer, and consumer. The children will be reading the lesson in class and filling out notes that will help them study for quizzes and test.
Social Studies - We will begin chapter 4 this week. The children will learn about Christopher Columbus the explorer.
Mrs. Sulima's Math Class:
Monday - We will review rounding whole numbers and decimals.
Tuesday - We will take a quiz (open book/notes) on the concepts we have covered to this point.
Wednesday - We will review estimating sums and differences of decimals.
Thursday - We will do a Project Based Learning Activity where the children will need to apply their knowledge of adding and subtracting decimals.
Friday - We will learn about addition and subtraction expressions.
