News for the Week of Feb 13-16

Post date: Feb 10, 2017 4:58:30 PM

Students may bring Valentine cards to exchange with (all) their classmates on Tuesday, February 14. We have 9 boys and 18 girls in our class. Please do not exclude anyone.

Since we have no classes on Friday, 2/17, we will take our weekly reading and spelling tests on Thursday this week.

Our main selection this week is called Rocks in His Head and it is a biography. Tested Vocabulary words for Thursday's test are:

attic, board, chores, customer, labeled, spare, stamps

We will be studying prefixes pre-, mid-, over-, out-, bi-, and de-. Spelling words for Friday's test are:

prepaid

midnight

overflow

outdoors

outline

overgrown

prefix

Midwest

pretest

midpoint

outgoing

overtime

overdue

outside

outfield

precaution

prediction

midsection

overweight

prehistoric

On Friday, we worked on a Study Guide for our first Multiplication chapter test. For those who scored 95-100, that is their test score and they won't need to take the test. For those who scored below 95, study guides were sent home so that mistakes can be reviewed. Many of the mistakes were on problems involving addition or subtraction. The test will likely be on Monday, so please take a little time to review.

This week in Math, we will focus on multiplication facts to 5. Your child should be working on memorization for a few minutes every day at home. Remember to focus on learning a step at a time to keep it from being overwhelming. Soon, we will begin regular multiplication fact quizzes to assess mastery.