Xtra Math: Please remember to have your child do Xtra Math Monday though Friday. This is a daily homework assignment. If your computer crashes, etc., please just send me a note so your child can be excused for that night's practice.
The next reading challenge is to get to 225 Reading Counts points by March 14th. We will have a pizza party the following Tuesday for all those who meet the challenge. So far, Emelia, Noah, Jonathan, Caroline, Keniyah, Alayna, Jack, Dhruv, and Ellie have met the challenge!
The Biography Poster is due March 1st.
Students are reading poetry. They may either read one book or several books as long as the total equals four or more Reading Counts points. They should show me the poetry books they have chosen so that I can approve them. All four points should be earned by March 8th.
Reading: We are learning about alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, and euphemism. Students will then be making a flip book on figurative language. On Thursday, we will begin our next novel, Dear Mr. Henshaw. Look for the parent letter to come home along with the first vocabulary list.
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Cursive Handwriting: Students need to work on slowing down to improve neatness.
Language: Test 10 over correct verb usage will be on Monday, February 25th. We will then review the rest of the week.
Spelling: Please make sure your child leaves the spelling workbook in his/her binder. They will learn the works in lesson 22 this week. Students must also know the definitions for the vocabulary words and how to spell the words that are part of the definition. Under the spelling grade on each test is a grade (S, W, N, or U) for their cursive. You can go to www.spellingcity.com for online practice of the grade level spelling words each week. Just go "Find a List" and then for the teacher type in "Brenda Speir." All the lists for the entire year will appear. Just choose the one for this week.
Writing: Students will be writing their final drafts of their forest report. We will also work on sentence fluency including how to start sentences in a variety of ways, varying the length of sentences, and using a variety of types of sentences to make what they write more interesting.
Timed Tests: Timed tests will be on Tuesdays this year. For the remainder of this quarter we will focus on subtraction and multiplication. Students will continue to have a subtraction timed test each week. Listed below are the test dates for the multiplication tests and what part of the multiplication table will be covered. Students have 1 minute for 25 problems, 2 minutes for 50 problems, or 4 minutes for 100 problems.
eights table-February 26th
Math: We will complete lessons 8-3 through 8-6. Diagnostic Checkpoint 8A will be on Tuesday. Students have a list of vocabulary that goes with this chapter. They will be given a weekly quiz over the words and terms we cover each week. They should review the terms we have covered so far in the chapter each night.
Science: We will continue Unit B Chapter 1. We will learn about deserts this week. We will also put together our forest reports.
Bible: Psalm 33:7 "He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; He puts the deep into storehouses."