Week of January 19th

Semester 2 begins Monday
 
FYI: 
Our February break day will now be a regular school day. 
  *Homework this weekend-  
Math- Workbook Pg 75 & 76. This is in their planners.

January Book Project due January 29th.
 Students have known about this since before break and were encouraged to begin reading their books over break. We have discussed requirements a few times and they have all the information/forms needed. I asked Friday if anyone needed another copy.

MATH:    

We completed the math test for Multiplying and Dividing Fractions, and I will send those home Monday. I was able to meet with some students last week and they have their tests. Our curriculum spirals so students will have continued review of all concepts in class and for homework. Our new unit is Multiplication of Whole Numbers and Decimals


Delta Math Tests- Students completed these last week. Students who did not pass concepts have review work at school and will be given some for home as well.

READING:
Students took an assessment over Long Way from Chicago last week. These will be sent home Monday or Tuesday. This week we will be reading short fiction and nonfiction texts focusing on overall comprehension, main idea/details, author's purpose, synthesizing information, inference, vocabulary building, and cause and effect.
 
WRITING:
I'm so looking forward to students' campaign speeches on Monday when they present! After researching a fruit or vegetable, each student wrote a speech to persuade the class to vote for him/her. They each made a campaign poster as well. They may dress up in a fun way for the presentation (Like all orange if your fruit is an orange, etc) and bring in their fruit or vegetable. Some students want to bring in samples of their fruit/veggie. This is NOT required. Please have this cut ahead of time if food will be served. 
  Our next project is a short story focusing on sentence fluency, simile/metaphor, prepositional phrases, and Onomatopeia (sound words).

SCIENCE:
Monday students will begin discussing the moon and it's phases. Two 8th grade students have been working on a lesson for this with Mr. Alkire. They will be presenting the lesson on Monday and Tuesday. This will be a fun change for our science classes! 

Spelling 
Students will take the Lesson 15 Spelling Test on Monday. The new lesson also begins that day. The skill are blends such as 'bl'.