Updates and Announcements

Week 5 has come and gone and we are hitting the ground running with week 6. Sometime throughout my years in college, a professor told me that week 5 is the most difficult week of the semester and year as students are adjusting to the full workload. I would say we are just about there as students are working diligently on their science fair projects and we begin our fourth unit in History.

Thank you so much to all of the grandparents who came to our classroom on Friday. The students enjoyed hearing you all read “The Magician’s Nephew” to them!

Picture day is this Thursday!

Our week in learning

This week in Grammar, students will take a test on Tuesday, and practice reconstructing a sentence from a sentence diagram.

In Literature, students will continue reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. There will be a short test on Wednesday where students will put the events of the book so far in order. Their summaries should be helpful with this.

Students will recite “The Tyger” and have their weekly roots quiz on Wednesday.

This week in science, students will begin their chemistry unit by studying the periodic table and the history behind the discovery of the elements. They will read about the chemist Robert Boyle, who conducted experiments to determine acids and bases using violet water, and will conduct their own experiments on acids and bases on Friday.

Science fair project proposals are due TODAY, Monday, September 11. Packets must be signed by parents and brought in for teacher approval.

This week in History, students will continue learning about the Renaissance with a general overview, the difference between artists and artisans, Florence and the Medici family, and the role the Renaissance popes played in Italy. Students will be practicing using fill-in-the-blank notes and column-style notes. We will also be learning about the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States on Wacky Wednesday.

This week in Math, students will continue the next unit, titled “More Calculations with Whole Numbers”. We will practice multiplying and dividing by 2 and 3 digit numbers. Students will practice using graph paper to help them stay organized in solving the problems. Math groups will continue this Wednesday, 8:00-8:45.