Updates and announcements

I hope everyone had a wonderful three day weekend! I am almost officially done with my classwork, so I rewarded myself with some quilting yesterday. I have so many projects “in progress”, it will be nice to get some finished up.

Our winter concert is this Wednesday! See you there!

Our week in learning

This week, students will learn about the idiom “Make a mountain out of a mole hill”.

Students will recite “The Road Not Taken” on 11/14. PLEASE NOTE: though it is not long, this is a tricky poem to memorize last minute because it does not rhyme. Students should work a little every night to memorize this. The students will learn about “The Snowstorm” and recite this poem on 11/28. The same note applies for this poem, it has proven challenging to memorize in the past, despite being short.

Students will learn about the roots cutis, cor, dorsum, and athlon. There will be a roots quiz over these next Wednesday, following the same schedule as last year. Students should expect a similar roots quiz every Wednesday over the roots learned the previous week.

In Literature, we will continue reading “Where the Red Fern Grows”. Students will continue their journal entries. For every chapter, students will write one 5-6 sentence paragraph about a virtue a character showed during that chapter. We will read through chapter 13 by the end of the week. We will be looking out for foreshadowing and figurative language.

In Writing and Grammar, we will finish writing narratives on a time the students showed courage. They will share their final draft papers on Friday. We will learn about interjections and possessive words. There will be a short quiz on Friday.

This week in science, students will review for their classification test. They will also go over how to write the science fair essay and be given some class time to work on it. Please note the project essay is due 11/19, and the poster board is due 11/20. The classification test is also on the 19th, so to avoid any stressful nights, your students should be studying some each night to prepare.

This week in History, students will continue our study of the Golden Age of England. We will discuss Queen Elizabeth I, England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the English Civil War. Since we have learned about all 50 States and had our location test last week, we will be having regular lessons on Wednesdays going forward.

In math, we will continue with our unit on Multiplying and Dividing Fractions. Students will work on dividing a fraction by a unit fraction, dividing a whole number by a fraction, dividing a fraction by a fraction, and word problems. Please note that we will have frequent quizzes in math. When a “b” quiz comes home for homework, that means there will likely be a quiz the next day. This means there will be frequent, low stakes math quizzes. We will not have math groups this week.