Just a reminder we have an early dismissal on Wednesday, October 21.Also, there will be specific instructions coming home about our Halloween celebration. Keep thinking about how you are going to decorate your pumpkin.
Here is the upcoming week in a nutshell:
MATH
Students have been practicing writing numerical and algebraic expressions, finding the value of the expressions and dabbling in a little mean, median and mode. This upcoming week, we will be discussing the properties and taking a quiz on what we've learned on Wednesday, October 21.
Language Arts
In spelling, we will be taking the lesson 8 test, which is a cumulative test on lessons 1-7. This test requires students to pick out a misspelled word from a group of five words. This sounds easy but is really quite a challenge. Review the lessons we've covered so far to refresh your memory.
In English, students will continue writing correctly with commas, quotation marks, abbreviations and titles. We plan to do some creative Halloween writing as well.
We will continue writing our summary journals for Jacob's Rescue but we will also add another strategy to our list: Visualizing. This strategy is best practiced with tall tales, which is the genre we plan to focus on.
Social Studies
As we finish up chapter 5 and the 13 colonies, we will be preparing for the test which is scheduled for Tuesday, October 27.
Science
Our leaf projects turned out really cool! Next, we'll be talking about energy and how it passes through an ecosystem, as well as, omnivores, carnivores and herbivores.
Have a wonderful weekend!
