Happy Thanksgiving Week!

Hello Parents!

Since I updated you last, students have learned so much new information!

In MATH, we have continued our leveled math groups. The students are being tested over chapter 3 very soon. We are coming to an end on our division chapter and students will be tested soon if they haven't been tested already. Please make sure your child is comfortable with this concept, and if not, please let me know! I think all students are doing very well with this chapter, so Mrs. Bowman, Mr. Spreer, and myself have decided we will be moving on to chapter 4 after break. Chapter 4 covers tables and line graphs, including making tables, interpreting data, and using a table. Hopefully, this chapter will go rather quickly and we can move on to data and probability.

In READING, Mrs. Whitten has finished her novel studies with the students. There are a few students playing catch up with their novels since they got behind, but they should be finished with them today. Mrs. Whitten had the students hand in all of their work packets and their books if they were finished. These will be graded and the grades put into Infinite Campus as soon as they are all graded.
After break, we will return to the textbook for a while to get back into our routine. Next Monday, students will receive new vocabulary words and we will be reading a non-fiction story about a tradition of basket weaving. We have some fun activities to go along with this story, so it should be a fun week next week!

In LANGUAGE ARTS, students have been writing complete sentences incorporating their spelling words. We have been looking at these sentences to make sure they are using a capital letter at the beginning and a ending mark at the end of each sentence. We have also been checking hand writing on these to make sure students are taking their time and using their best handwriting.
After break, we will be working on simple and compound sentences, prepositional phrases, and compound subjects and predicates.

In SCIENCE, students took their test over Earth Materials last week. They were given all of the information on the test and asked to write it down on their study guide. This information was also posted in the room for them to write down if they didn't finish in the time they were given. Several students did not do too well on the test, so they were given the opportunity to correct their answers for a better grade. This was a choice they were given, so if they chose not to correct, they were given the grade they got the first time.
After break, we will start our next region of the United States and do some fun activities learning more about the country we live in.

I hope everyone enjoys their three days off from school this week. Enjoy your time with family and if you are traveling, please do so safely. I look forward to seeing the kids back next Monday and hearing about their Thanksgiving break adventures.