WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 23-27

                 
                                               WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 23- 27   


 It was wonderful meeting so many of the parents on Curriculum night. Please feel free to email me at any time with any question or concern. As a team, we can ensure the best for each student! 

A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- Lesson 4       -0 or -1 will be in Challenge group

               Monday- Pretest   

               Thursday- Spelling Homework Due

               Friday - Spelling test

Social Studies- We will continue with Chapter 4 "Spain Builds and Empire" 

We have been learning how Cortes defeated the Aztecs and what factors enabled him to do so. We are also learning about what changes the Spanish brought to New Spain. 

Lesson 2- Different Worlds Collide-Spanish conquistadors establish new colonies in North America and South America

Lesson 3- Life in New Spain-Spain gaining wealth from the settlement in North America

Reading-  Tall Tales - Tall Tales continues. We read Paul Bunyan and John Henry this week. We learned about the figurative language called hyperbole.  

We also learned about context clues and how to use them to find meaning to words that we are not familiar with. We will be reading Johnny Appleseed and Sally Anne Thunder and Whirlwind this week. 

Language Arts-  We began our unit on sentences. We began with identifying sentences and sentence fragments. We then identified the 4 different types of sentences: imperative, declarative, exclamatory and interrogative. We will now learn to identify subject and predicated, simple subject and simple predicates this week .

Science-   We will continue Chapter 5 on How Do Plants Produce Food. We are learning about the parts of the plant and photosynthesis. The middle of this week we will have an open book quiz on Lesson 1. Please have your child review their note cards .

Math-  Chapter 1 - Place Value

-Place Value Through Millions

-Compare and Order Numbers Through Millions

-Represent Decimals

-Place Value Through Thousand

-Compare Decimals

-Order Whole Numbers and Decimals

*In math, we will begin comparing decimals, ordering whole numbers and decimals,as well as problem solving.

We are finishing the last half of the chapter and will be having a chapter test coming up on Monday, September

30. The students will have everything they need to prepare for the test in their math book, math folder in their binder, and their math spiral. 

IMPORTANT DATES
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24: MAGAZINE TURN IN DAY
THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER 26: PICTURE DAY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27:  EARLY DISMISSAL DAY