Updates and announcements

We are the champions of Athletic Field Day! Our scholars worked hard in training and persevered through our events! Thank you to the parents who volunteered.

Be on the lookout for a sign-up genius from our marvelous classroom parents for our Great Hearts Day celebration. PLEASE NOTE that students are not to bring store bought valentines on this day. 

The “Wish List” is updated. We are in desperate need of index cards as our students have taken to drawing on them. The few we have left are not out for students to take at-will.

There is no school on Friday and it is not an R&R weekend. Next weekend, February 16-19 will be an R&R weekend.

Our week in learning

This week, students will present their explorer reports in history on Monday and Tuesday mornings. Posters should be brought to class on Monday.

Students will review past grammar skills and add a new skill to their notebooks: predicate adjectives! Predicate adjectives are adjectives occuring in the sentence predicate that describe the subject of the sentence. They follow a linking verb.

Ex: Betty is nice. “Nice” is a predicate adjective. Students will have a brief quiz over this skill on Wednesday morning.

In literature, students will continue reading up to chapter 19 of the Secret Garden.

The roots quiz will be on Wednesday.

In science this week, students will learn about gymnosperms, which are seeds that are commonly found in pine cones, and their pollination and fertilization. They will have the opportunity to read about gymnosperms in two articles and answer questions about them.

This week in history, students will continue learning about Westward Expansion before the Civil War. Students will learn about Tecumseh and what he did for Native Americans in the early 1800’s, and improvements in transportation.

In math this week, we will continue learning about decimals. Students will divide decimals by another decimal and review for their unit test on Thursday. Graph paper is very helpful to line up decimals and keep their work organized. We will be using some in class, but it might be useful to have some at home to use with homework. Math groups will be this Wednesday, 8:00-9:15.