Language Arts- Mrs. Phelps

Thank you to all families for attending Parent-Teacher-Student conferences this past week! It was great to get you caught up on your child's progress and touch base about how they are doing! 

This week we are diving deep into Because of Winn Dixie. We will focus on answering questions and using evidence from the text to support our answers. We are also discussing specific vocabulary words from the text and using context to determine their meaning.  Opal (the main character) is learning a lot of important life lessons from the people she is meeting and I enjoy talking to the class about the possible themes of the story.

Morphology:  We will have a comprehensive morphology quiz on February 23rd. This is the last day of the trimester. Students should use their morphology cards on the ring and their morpheme chart in their notebook to study. I will make it as simple as I can and it will more than likely be done using google forms. 

Homework: Read p. 98-127 of Because of Winn Dixie and complete job sheet for literature circle meetings on FRIDAY! 

Math-Mrs. Bennett

This week in Math class students will complete a Valentine' Day Math activity! Students will get a box of conversation hearts. Students will determine how to display the different colored hearts in a visual way. Students will learn how to display data on a bar graphs, pictographs, line plot, and frequency table. We will observe the differences in these graphs and how they are similar. Lastly, student will use their graphs to analyze the data and draw conclusions. 

Students will also finish preparing for our chapter test on Division. There is a study guide posted to Google Classroom. The test will be Friday 2/16. The test will cover the following skills:

Homework:

2/13 - SS #85 & study

2/14- SS #86 & study

2/15- SS #88 & study (we will complete SS #87 at school)

2/16- Chapter Test- Understand Division

Social Studies- Mrs. Crush

In Social Studies, the students will continue their Presidents Project. This project will be completed in both Social Studies and Technology, along with Writing. Each student has been assigned a president, they will research, and learn about the president. When gathering research, the students will create a Google Slide and eventually present those during class. Also, the students will write an autobiography for their presidents using the information that they gathered. Similar to Christmas Around the World, the students will be dressing up as their presidents and sharing their story with students and parents. 

President Presentation due Thursday, Feb. 8

Teacher feedback~given to students during class to make changes, Feb. 13-16

Presidents' Show n' Tell: Wednesday, February 21, 9:30-10:00a.m. in Library  *Students will come to school in uniform and bring their clothes and accessories to school with them on. 

Religion- Mrs. Crush

We will continue our Saints Madness project this week. Students have chosen a saint to research. The students are working individually or in pairs. Our goal for this week is to research about our saint. This will help the students to determine which population their nonprofit will be serving in honor of. This project will take several weeks and a tentative timeline is below.

Here is a link to the rubric: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E1tCuuah1SepOWtITVMZSuZ76pTFwcq6pD2CzqBZ3Xo/edit?usp=sharing

2nd Trimester Service Hours + Reflection due Wednesday, Feb. 14

Student Led Prayer~Praise due Tuesday, Feb. 20 *Updated 2/15*

Science- Ms. Jackel