Post date: Nov 21, 2017 4:40:00 PM
Reminders:
Hearing Screening forms
Signed Report Card envelopes
We are beginning a new Reading unit that asks the big question "How do people and nature interact?" This week's main selection is expository text called How Do You Raise a Raisin? Tested vocabulary from this selection includes:
area, artificial, grapevine, preservative, proof, raise, raisin
Our phonics and spelling focus this week is on contractions. Spelling words for Friday's test are:
let's
he'd
you'll
I'd
won't
haven't
hasn't
she'd
they'll
when's
we'd
should've
wasn't
didn't
they'd
would've
could've
needn't
you've
In English, How-To Articles are due on Tuesday, 11/28. We will begin a new Section on Pronouns this week.
In Math, we are concluding a chapter on data and graphs. There will be a Test mid-week (likely Wednesday) and then we will finally begin working with multiplication concepts. Weekly quizzes on basic multiplication facts will start with the 2s, 5s, 3s, 4s, etc. Please work on them at home daily, one set at a time. Once students have mastered a set, they will move to the next level. Students are expected to master their multiplication facts through the 12s before the end of the school year so they can solve higher-level math problems going forward.