Updates and announcements

Another week gone! We have a lot of exciting things coming up this month. Be sure to check out the “Important Dates” part of the blog.

Our week in learning

This week in language arts, students will be introduced to prepositions, objects of prepositions, and prepositional phrases. They will practice using them to build sentences, as well as classifying and diagramming them. Look for notebooks coming home this week to help with diagram questions.

In literature, students will read through chapter 9 of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and practice outlining events using a traditional outline format.

Students will have their weekly roots quiz. “The Tyger” will be recited on 9/13.

Students will prepare for their upcoming unit test in science this week by reviewing their foldables and quizzing each other in class. This week, students will also be introduced to their science fair projects, due 10/6. This will be due on Monday, 9/11.The unit test will take place on Friday, September 8. The first section due will be their project approval, which will require a parent signature.

This week in History, students will finish their unit on the Meso-American Civilizations with a review day on Tuesday and the test on Wednesday. On Thursday, we will begin our weekly US geography lessons, starting with the New England region. Please note that students will have periodic map tests over all of the regions, and end the unit with a 50 states map test. On Friday, we will begin our study of the Renaissance.

This week in Math, students will continue the next unit, titled “More Calculations with Whole Numbers”. We will continue working on mental math strategies and start lessons on solving word problems with bar models. Weekly Math Groups will begin this Wednesday, September 6th, 8:00-8:45. Open math tutoring will continue Monday, and by invitation only math tutoring will continue on Wednesday.