WEEK OF: January 5th - 9th, 2015

Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays with family and friends. 

 

**Reading: We will begin our next story called “Amazing Bird Nests”.  This is an example of Expository text.  Expository text tells about real people, things, or events.  We will be working on Main Idea and Details this week.

 

**Spelling: The new list is made up of Consonant Digraphs: /s/, /th/, /f, /ch/, and /ng/.  We will take a Pretest on Wednesday 1/7 and final test on Friday 1/9.   

 

**Grammar: Our focus is Plural Possessive nouns (plural nouns that show ownership). Please check the red folder for a study guide.  

 

**Math: We will finish up with Topic 10 (Comparing Fractions).  We will review Wednesday and Thursday and have a Topic 10 test Friday.  Please check our Blue folder for Topic 10 practice test and review packet on Wednesday / Thursday.

 

**Science: We will begin Chapter 4 “Living Things”.  We will start by learning how to classify animals.

Monday – Day 3 Gym

Math – 4x’s fact sheet (Quiz Friday); 10-8 WS (Topic 10 test Friday)  

Reading – Review new vocab, story, and story skills (Main Idea and details)

Grammar – Review Plural Possessive Nouns

Spelling – Write new list words ~ pretest Wednesday

 

Tuesday – Day 4 Art

Math – 4x’s fact sheet (Quiz Friday); 10-9 WS (Topic 10 test Friday)  

Reading – Review new vocab, story, and story skills (Main Idea and details)

Grammar – Review Plural Possessive Nouns

Spelling – Write new list words ~ pretest Wednesday

 

 

 

 

Wednesday – Day 5 Music

Math – 4x’s fact sheet (Quiz Friday); Topic 10 Review (Topic 10 test Friday)  

Reading – Review new vocab, story, and story skills (Main Idea and details)

Grammar – Review Plural Possessive Nouns

Spelling – Pretest corrections – Final test Friday

 

Thursday – Day 1 Computer

Math – 4x’s fact sheet (Quiz Friday); Topic 10 Review (Topic 10 test Friday)  

Reading – Review new vocab, story, and story skills (Main Idea and details)

Grammar – Review Plural Possessive Nouns

Spelling – Final Test on Friday

 

 

Friday – Day 2 Library

·       Please sign and return all Friday folders