January 23-27

I have printed missing work notes and progress reports. They will come home on Monday. In order to avoid any surprises at conference time, please sign and return these to school.
Country Report Maps are due on Friday. Students should make these on 81/2 by 11 size paper. They need to be drawn, not copied. One map must be a political map, but the other can be any type they choose. The students were shown examples of maps on Thursday at school.

Here is what you can expect this week-

MATH-I am so proud of my class. Everyone is showing improvement in math! This week we will shift from fractions to integers, (Topic 10 in the math book).
WRITING-As we finished Ancient Greece, students were asked to write their own myth, using Greek mythology as inspiration. These will be due on Friday. Students will also be learning different ways to organize writing based on the type of information used.
READING-This will be the last week for the novels about bullying. They have been working on making inferences about characters and vocabulary. They have also been expected to look for themes throughout the book.
SPELLING-The Take Home Task this week focuses on making nouns plural. There are rules that students need to be familiar with for the Skill Test on Friday.
SOCIAL STUDIES-Romulus and Remus were twins said to have been the founders of Ancient Rome. Students will create comic strips based around this legend. We will also explore the geography, government and famous people of Ancient Rome.
SCIENCE-We enjoyed looking over the survey results about why we have seasons on Earth. This week we will focus on some fun experiments and demonstrations that reinforce that it is the tilt of the Earth that causes this, not distance from the sun.

Everyone have a great week!