Weekly Gazette (Week of Jan. 19th-Jan.23rd)

What is My Child Learning This Week?

Math-reading and writing time from an analog clock; elapsed time; the four seasons; 100th Day of School activities!!!!!!

Reading-chapter book, Magic Tree House: Night of the Ninjas. We are reviewing this week the skills of summarization, story elements,  and how to strategically locate information in the text. 

Writing-We are publishing our dinosaur stories; students will begin to draft their science reports this week. We continue with cursive writing.

Science-This is our last week studying dinosaurs and fossils. We will be focusing on our science experiments this week! (yeah!!!)

The grammar focus this week is on using transition words in writing such as also, too, in addition, next, etc. Also, we will focus on combining smaller sentences to make more complex sentences. 

Tests and Quizzes This Week

• Friday, January 23rd is the subtraction timed test (4 minutes for 30 problems).
• Time/elapsed time quiz this Friday also. Study guide is in your child's homework folder.
• Quiz on Magic Tree House (prologue and chapter 1) this Thursday. Study guide went home today.
• Vocabulary quiz on fossils/dinosaurs this Wednesday. Study guide went home today.

Reminders

• The 100th Day of School is this Thursday, January 22nd. Students may wear a special shirt.
• Please return report cards no later than Wednesday, January 28th.