Monday, January 12, 2009

Weekly Gazette (Jan. 12-Jan.16)

What is My Child Learning This Week?

Math-We begin learning about time to the hour, half hour, and 5 minute intervals. Elapsed time will also be reviewed.

Reading-We begin the chapter book, Magic Tree House: Night of the Ninjas. We will cover various skills such as story elements, character traits, cause and effect, summarization, inferencing, fact/opinion, etc. EAch skill will be mentioned as we discuss it. This week, however, we are focusing on vocabulary development from chapters 1-3.

Writing- Students are continuing the writing process with their dinosaur stories. We have been focusing on irregular spelling patterns such as -tion and -ize. Students began cursive writing this week.

Science- fossils; students are beginning to learn about the scientific process/method.


Important Reminders/Dates
  • Students will have a timed subtraction quiz this Friday, January 16th. They will have 4 minutes to answer 30 problems.
  • No other tests and quizzes this week.
  • Report cards will be sent home this Friday, January 16th.
  • Please don't forget to return graded papers by January 23rd.
  • 3-ring binders are to be in no later than January 23rd.

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