November 30-December 4

Important News

Thursday: Chapter 3 Math Test (Make sure to study your past assignments)
Friday: Spelling Test and Colonial Days

Students need to bring a tin can with holes punched in the sides for Colonial Days on Friday. We need all the parent volunteers we can get! If you are interested write that in your child's planner.

On Wednesday we are starting a new science unit on Magnetism and Electricity!! It will be a lot of fun!

November 16-20

This week we are continuing our study of the English colonies in social studies.

Tuesday November 17 there is a test on the Early English Colonies. Make sure your students study for this using their yellow study guides.

On Friday there is a spelling test and a map test in social studies. Students will be making this map Monday and Tuesday and then will have two days to study and memorize it.

Students will begin reading their books for their first book report. Students can choose any book to read as long as it has at least 100 pages. They will have two weeks to read it and almost 2 weeks to do the book report. More information will come at the end of this week.

There is a food drive and so if you have any food items that you are able to donate, send them with your child this week!

What is going on November 9-13

We are still studying Early Colonization in social studies.
We are studying division in math. Remember to save all unit 3 math worksheets until your child has taken the unit 3 test.
On Friday there is a spelling test on the following words: spoil, choice, avoid, moisture, oyster, royal, employ, annoy, ground, house, sprout, mountain, allow, ourselves, somehow, ounce, amount, and boundary. Bonus words include: indentured servants, Spain, colony, and Chesapeake Bay.
If students turn in all of their homework throughout the week they receive fake money to use in fun activities throughout the year.

What's happening this week:

1. We are beginning a new Social Studies unit on the Early Colonies.

2. Parent Teacher Conference is Wednesday from 4:30-8pm. and Thursday from 3:30-7pm.

3. There is a spelling test on Thursday. The spelling words they will be tested on are: gloomy, school, choose, loose, route, clue, truth, duty, ruin, Tuesday, usually, threw, understood, neighborhood, rookie, could, should, and bulletin.

4. We are starting a unit on division in math.

5. We are writing persuasive papers that students will eventually have to present in class.