Monday, January 14, 2013

This Week in Room 33! Jan. 14-18

Happy Monday! We have a busy week this week! Here's what to expect:

Morning Work- Students will be working on DLR this week focusing on editing sentences, prepositions, antonyms, root words, prefixes/suffixes, etc. We will have our DLR quiz on Friday.

Math- We are reviewing chapters 15-16 this week on fractions. Our test will be Thursday. Our review assignment #2 is due Friday. These weekly review assignments are a part of our math grade and are practice for the comprehensive MAP test.

Social Studies- We have finished chapter 6 on the middle and southern colonies. The study guide is due on Thursday and the test is on Friday.

Reading- We are finishing up our study on story elements and will begin working on determining importance and summarizing. Ask your student about our S.T.O.R.Y. poem from last week. We will also be taking our January Evaluate assessments this week. The cold read "Beaks and Feathers" is due this Friday.


Writing- We are ready to begin our expository writing unit! We will be exploring nonfiction texts and discussing how the information is organized and presented in several mentor books. Spelling tests will be on Friday and our words contract will be due as well.


Sheldon Field Trip- Our field trip to Sheldon Theater is Tuesday. We will be boarding buses at 9 and returning by 11:30ish. 

D.A.R.E. starts this week! Our DARE day is every Tuesday from 2-2:45.

Please return signed slip from report cards ASAP.

Have a WONDERFUL week! :)

-Mrs. Schaefer

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