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Weekly Events:
Week of March 17
*No school on Monday.
*No school on Tuesday - Teacher Institute.
*Chapter 15 Science test on Wednesday.
*Vocabulary Quiz on Wednesday.
*Last Session of TGFD on Thursday.
*Pizza Party provided by the Obeid family on Thursday.
*Reading Selection test on Friday.
Week of March 24
*Spelling pretest on Monday.
*TFK Quiz on Thursday.
*Spelling test on Friday.
*Field Trip to Naper Settlement on Friday.
Coming Attractions:
*Spring Break ~ March 29-April 6.
*Early Dismissal on Thursday, April 17.
*TGFD Graduation on Thursday, April 17, at 8:30.
*No school on Friday, April 18.
Third Trimester:
1 day late = 25% off
More than 1 day late = 50% off
After unit test = 0%
Late assignments that are not graded = 2 points off Responsibility Bank
Homeroom Happenings:
Spelling - We will not have a spelling unit during the week of March 17, but we will have a unit during the week of March 24. Third trimester has begun. Students must receive 100% on the pretest to become a challenge speller.
English - Your child will receive their Unit 3 Verb contract on Wednesday. This week we will learn about action verbs, direct objects, and main verbs & helping verbs. Next week, our study of verbs will continue with linking verbs, present tense, past tense, and future tense. If your child pretested out of a lesson, they will be working on an enrichment project during that specific lesson. Enrichment work should be done in school!
Reading - The children did a WONDERFUL job on the vocabulary work this past week. On Wednesday, they will take a quiz on the 9 words. The vocabulary packet will be collected on Wednesday too. We will be discussing "author's viewpoint" this week. On Friday, the children will take a selection test on And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (listen to the story here)
And Then What Happens, Paul Revere? story summary
Science - We will take the Chapter 15 test on Wednesday. Here are some helpful hints:
*Vocabulary to review: convection, chemical energy, energy, conservation, radiation, conduction, potential energy, kinetic energy, solar energy, mechanical energy, conductor, insulator, renewable, & nonrenewable.
*What happens to the particles in the air as the temperature changes?
*What kinds of energy does a calculator use that can run with or without a battery in the light, and in the dark it runs only with a battery?
*Does this calculator use renewable resources, nonrenewable resources, or both?
Chapter 15 Slide Shows
We will begin a unit on "weather and the water cycle" on Thursday and continue next week.
Social Studies - This week we will finish our discussion on The Boston Tea Party. The children will also learn about The Intolerable Acts. The following week, we will learn about the First Continental Congress, Paul Revere's Ride, and the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Mrs. Sulima's Math Class:
Week of March 17
Monday - No school
Tuesday - No school
Wednesday - Graphing Reflections and Translations
Thursday - Slope
Friday - Quiz on Coordinate Planes, quadrants, graphing linear functions, graphing reflections and translations
Week of March 24
Monday - Percent Sense/Percent of a Number
Tuesday - Discount and Sale Price
Wednesday - Sales Tax and Total Cost
Thursday - Better Buy
Friday - No Math due to Naper Settlement Field Trip
