Updates and Announcements

We are closing in on some fun activities! Check out the “Important Dates” section for more information.

We have some important assessments coming up. If you have a planned absence for your child before Thanksgiving, please let me know so he or she can take it before you leave.

Our week in learning

This week, students will focus on Writing during Block. They will work on brainstorming and pre-writing maps.

For Poetry, students will memorize “The Road Not Taken” for 11/15.

Students will complete a weekly literature summary from last week’s reading of Where the Red Fern Grows, and continue to read the next three chapters of the book.

In science this week, students will wrap up the Classification unit by learning about Kingdom Protista and Kingdom Monera - quite different organisms from plants, animals, and fungi! The Fungi Kingdom open-note take-home quiz sent home last Friday is due Monday, 11/6. On Friday this week, students will participate in an in-class unit review to prepare for the upcoming test. The Classification study guide that students have been working on nightly is due Monday, 11/13, and the unit test will take place on Tuesday, 11/14.

This week in History, students will begin learning about the Reformation. We will be addressing this topic as a historical event-not labeling “good” and “bad”. Students will be learning about the objective corruptions within the Catholic church at this time, then the Counter-Reformation, and lastly, the Reformation’s effect on science. This week, we will review the study guide for their test. The Reformation test will take place on Tuesday, November 7th. We will also learn about Alaska and Hawaii. Please note that there will be a 50 states location test before Thanksgiving Break on 11/21. The study guides for this 50 states test are due on 11/20. Here are some online resources for students to use to study: https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3003

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/USA_Geography/USA_GL_click_1024.html

https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states
https://www.bls.gov/k12/content/games/geography-quiz/geography-quiz.htm (This one lists statistics about the state.)

This week in Math, students will continue to learn about multiplying and dividing fractions. Students will solve word problems that involve multiplying a fraction by a fraction and divide a fraction by a whole number. Open tutoring is on Mondays, 3:05-3:40. Math groups will take place this week at a different time due to the winter concert rehearsals. Math groups will be at 8:45-9:45.