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HOMEWORK:   
MATH: 
 Study for math retest in Place Value- (for some students- Tuesday)
 Study for time test (Thursday)
READING: Be sure you are reading a minimum of 20 minutes daily! 

MATH   - Mrs. Custer 

Please check PowerSchool over the weekend if you are interested in your unit 3 math test grades.  They will all be entered before the end of the weekend.  A reminder that next week Tuesday is the place value retest and next Thursday are our Mad Minute math fact tests. The goal is 30 problems in one minute for each of the operations.

 

 

BLOWERS WRITING: 
  We continue our "Snowman" drafts. (Standard W.5.3 -writing a narrative.) 

Students are working to incorporate at least 5 of the sentence types that we practiced, some sound words, and most are writing from a snowman's point of view.Students know they have their individual goals for writing to be thinking about as they write. Students who wish to read their stories to the class will have the opportunity on Friday.

READING: with Mrs. Blowers
As we continue in book clubs, the standards we are discussing and focusing on are making inferences using text clues and background knowledge, vocabulary building and using new words in our own sentences as well as finding synonyms/antonyms, summarizing, and comparing/contrasting ideas and characters.

 
Social Studies with Mrs. Custer

We had a lot of special activities that occurred during our usual social studies time this week, but we did work on informational reading strategies from chapter 6 of our textbook as we learned about the early English colonies of Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth.

Science with Mrs. Blowers 

Science tests will come home Monday or Tuesday. Monday we begin our section focusing on the moon's role in our solar system.

 Spelling:     

The Lesson 14 test will be Monday. The new skill for lesson 15 the spelling of words that include diagraphs. (wh, che, etc).  Students know they should study the activities we do in class to study for the test as well as practice the words on the list in the spelling tab.