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September 26-30

I hope everyone enjoyed the three day weekend!

Here is what you can expect this week.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Country flags are due on Friday!

We will be learning about the world's first civilization in Mesopotamia. This will be combined with reading skills this week.

SPELLING

Students will practice words that have suffixes. The Take Home Task will come home on Tuesday and is due on Friday. Here is a huge hint...the plural of aircraft is aircraft. Students always add an s to this one.

WRITING

Students are writing stories based on nothing more than a picture and a caption. Ask them to tell you all about the Mystery of Harris Burdick.

READING

As students read about Mesopotamia and the Sumerians, they will practice comprehension skills specifically for non-fiction reading.

MATH

We will start Topic 3, Operations with Decimals this week. Students will be bringing home a note that gives you online access to our math program. This is a great resource to use for enriching what we have learned as well as added support.

SCIENCE

We will finish the scientific method this week. Students have learned all about the seven steps as well as the process skills associated with the Scientific Method.

FUNDRAISER PACKETS ARE DUE ON WEDNESDAY

Please note, we will be watching President Obama's address to students on Wednesday. A note will come home Tuesday explaining the Canyon District's decision to show the speech in the classroom. Any parents who would prefer that their student NOT participate need to fill out and send back the form on the back of the note. Only those NOT participating need to send the note back.

Have a great week!

Back to School!

Welcome back and thank you for taking the time to check out our classroom blog. Here is what you can expect your student to be doing this week.

SOCIAL STUDIES- We will finish our unit on "What is History?" by doing an activity on artifacts and how they help us learn about people in the past. We will take a break from social studies to work on our keyboarding skills.

SPELLING-This week's skill focuses on antonyms and synonyms. By Wednesday, your student should be able to tell you what the difference between them is. Students will have a Take Home Task come home on Tuesday to help them be prepared for the skill test on Friday.

WRITING-Students are working on an article for an imaginary school paper. They are focusing on the writing trait of Ideas. Their goal is to write an article that is specific and appropriate for the intended audience.

READING-We will begin our first novel unit this week. The theme of the books is survival. Monitoring comprehension will be the main focus of this unit. Ask students about their "inner voice" while reading.

MATH-Topic 1 dealt with place value of large numbers as well as decimal numbers. Topic 2 begins this week. We will cover variables, order of operations and properties of operations.

SCIENCE-The scientific method is an important set of steps that students should be familiar with. We are spending time on those steps as well as the accompanying process skills. This week focuses on predicting and identifying variables in an experiment.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!