Reading/Language Arts

This week, we will continue our third theme in reading: Friends to Grow With. In this unit, students will be observing how people grow and change through their relationships with others. By reading about ways in which friends and family influence real people and fictional characters, students will recognize how people influence each other.

This week we will by reading The Talent Show on pages 306-321. In this realistic fiction story, Beany is anxious about the upcoming talent show. After a talk with her father, Beany realizes the most important thing is to have fun.

As we read the story, students will be: learning new vocabulary, prefixes and suffixes, sequencing, and drawing conclusions. Abbreviations will be the subject of our grammar lessons this week.

For writing this week, we will be doing descriptive paragraphs. We will create a class sculpture and describe it. What is different about this is the students are not allowed to say it is a chair. They must say something like, “It is a yellow four-legged object that you sit on.” When the class is all done, these descriptions will come home to you for you to draw! You will all get an opportunity to see the sculpture and drawings at Open House.

Math

We start the week off by exploring different types of triangles. Next, we will work with quadrangles by discussing right angles, parallel, and equal at length. We will also review the characteristics of polygons, emphasizing regular polygons. The rest of the week will be spent with angles. The students should continue to study their multiplication facts. We will be on our 9’s this week.

Social Studies

Landforms will be our discussion this week. Landform maps show mountains, valley, plains, plateaus, lakes, and other physical features.We will discuss why a landform map would be useful planning a trip to a lake or mountain range. We will identify ways that physical characteristics of the environment affect and have been modified by the local community.

Extras

Monday-PSO meeting today.

Wednesday- Scholastic book orders due today if ordering

Wednesday-Students in the arts entry deadline if participating.

Martin Luther King Day**No school on the 18th.


Homework: Will be updated daily as assigned.

Monday, January 11th -  Spelling pages 47-49 due by Thursday. Math- Simple Solutions 60-61

Tuesday, January 12th -Math- Simple Solutions pages 62-63. Reading- take book home and read Talent Show on pages 306-321.

Wednesday, January 13th - Math- Simple Solutions pages 64-64. Social Studies- review guide pages 29-30 and Reading- study for vocabulary test.

Thursday, January 14th - Spelling- study for test. Math- home link 6.7 and study for 9’s this week

Friday, January 15th- NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY THE 18TH- MLK DAY