About the Week of March 9 and looking ahead...

About the Week of March 9 and looking ahead...

Tuesday March 17... GREEN DAY wear green!
Friday March 20......YELLOW DAY wear yellow! and we have some "yellow activities"

Friday March 27......EARLY COLONIES DAY - Dress like early colonists- we will help

PINK DAY: A representative from the Susan G Komen Foundation came on Friday in order to thank us for our donation to the foundation. Sydney Wedeven had chosen this charity when her name was drawn for our Christmas Gift Giving project in December. You can see pictures on the foundation's Facebook page and I attached a few as well.

I HAVE SOME PICTURES IN THE "PHOTOS" TAB

PUBERTY/HIV/AIDS Lessons- These begin on March 23rd
 

CONFERENCES: March 30 and 31

Last week you received information about signing up for conferences online. Already 20 people have done so! If you want to have a time that works for you, please sign up as soon as possible. 

HOMEWORK:  

1) Page 115 in the workbook- all.
2) Grammar Cop page. I went over how to do this with the class.

For all:  Reading: Read every day.

   For all:  March Book Project- Due March 30

March Book Project: Create a book jacket for your book.

  I went through the March assignment and handed out directions for this last week. 

  I have the book jacket templates at school and students can get those whenever they are ready. We review these assignment once or twice every week for a reminder.

MATH:  
 There are tutorials for division and some practice in order of the concept to be taught. 
  We continue working in our Division unit.We are doing review of all division concepts and will continue this next week. It takes time for students to become fluent with dividing 2 digit divisors into larger dividends. We reviewed how to check answers with multiplication.

 READING:  

We  completed Sign of the Beaver.  We will review and discuss the book on Monday and have an assessment on Tuesday.

Students also compared and contrasted Echohawk from our Read Aloud Book, Echohawk, to Attean from The Sign of the Beaver. We will begin book club later next week.  Students will be working in groups of 4-5 with books at there reading level. Students also spent time reviewing and revising their goals and talking to me about them as they are preparing to use these in their conference presentations.

WRITING: Student wrote a persuasive paper about whether Matt (our main character) should stay and wait for his family or go with the American Indians.We will begin a short writing piece about Superheroes next week.

                                                                                                                              SCIENCE: 
I enjoyed all the presentations students completed about their planet or dwarf planet! We spent the entire week reviewing for the test on Monday. Students marked a page in their journals to study, they have a study guide, and we practiced reading a graph many times as this is also on the test.

Spelling  Students took Spelling Test 22 on Friday. This week's skill is homographs.

  We will continued to review and practice using comma, quotation marks, and  figurative language.