Week of January 30

***Book reports are due on Wednesday, February 1! If your child would like to receive the 10 bonus points for dressing up as the famous person they researched, he or she should come dressed on Wednesday.

We will not have spelling homework or a test next week. We will be taking our Unit 3 Benchmark tests on Monday and Tuesday, Word Wall test on Wednesday, and writing assessment on Thursday. Please study the persuasive paragraph paper that was sent home last week with your child. They need to have all of the parts of a persuasive paragraph to receive full credit. We have also been discussing transition words and strong openings to grab the reader's attention. These should also be included in your child's writing.

We will continue to count money in Math. We are spending two days on each lesson in Math since this is the first time the students are learning about money. There will be days that they have the same numbered lesson sheet for homework, though the assignment will be different.

We will begin learning about the different states of matter in Science.

Homework Schedule:
Monday-Math sheet 7.2
Tuesday-Math sheet 7.3
Wednesday-Math sheet 7.3
Thursday-Math sheet 7.4

Have a great week!

Week of January 23

We will have our math test on chapter six on Tuesday, January 24. Continue to practice subtraction with borrowing. On Wednesday, we will begin learning the different coins and how to count them. Chapter seven will also focus on telling time to the hour, half-hour, and five-minute interval. Please practice all of these skills at home as well.

In Social Studies, we will continue to learn about the history of the United States. Our unit test will be on Thursday, January 26. Continue to look over the study guide that was sent home.

We will focus on cause and effect, abbreviations, spelling compound words, and root words in Language Arts. We will continue to learn how to write a persuasive essay. This type of writing will be on the unit test that we will have next week. Please look over the persuasive writing review that will be sent home today. The students need to include every part of the writing to receive the full points.

Homework Schedule:
Monday-3 times each, study for math test
Tuesday-ABC order
Wednesday-Spelling sentences, math sheet 7.1
Thursday-Study for spelling test, math sheet 7.2
**Continue to work on biography book reports. We will present them on Wednesday, February 1. If your child would like the 10 bonus points, he or she should dress as the person they researched on Wednesday, February 1.

Have a great week!

Week of January 17

We will work on the following skills next week:

Language Arts-persuasive writing, identifying author's purpose, spelling and reading long o words, using proper nouns, adding the suffix -ly

Math-subtraction with regrouping

Social Studies-Martin Luther King Jr. and the inauguration

Homework Schedule:
Tuesday-3 times each, math sheet 6.8
Wednesday-sentences, math sheet 6.9
Thursday-study for spelling test, math sheet 6.10

***There is no school on Monday, January 16!

Have a great week!

Week of January 9

We will work on the following next week:

Language Arts-writing persuasively, spelling words with ea and ee, using quotation marks properly, using a dictionary, identifying main idea and details

Math-adding and subtracting three-digit numbers

Social Studies-how America has changed and grown over time

Homework Schedule:
Monday -3 times each, math sheet 6.3
Tuesday-ABC order, math sheet 6.4
Wednesday-Sentences, math sheet 6.5
Thursday-Study for Spelling test, math sheet 6.6

Have a great week!