Week of January 20th

I hope that all of you enjoyed your long weekend celebrating the life and work of MLK! Here's what is happening this week in room 402!

Ride the Weekly Wave:

Math-We will continue our unit on fractions this week as we practice using mixed numbers, improper fractions, and how to add and subtract mixed numbers!

Reading-We will continue our POETRY unit through station activities such as “Blackout” poetry, word work, and buddy reading. We will be working on our poetry collections this week from in class poetry reading and analysis as we look at different genres of poetry…our final test is this week!

ELA/Writing-In Writer’s Workshop, we will be integrating capitalization rules as we finish our Action Plan write up and presentations.

Social Studies-We will be continuing to learn about the key battles of the Revolution as we finish up our timeline project!

Science-IT’S ELECTRIC!! We will finish our unit on Electricity. We will also begin exploring magnetism and electromagnets through hands-on stations and experiments! **Be on the lookout for a magnetism brochure project next week!

Set Sail for…Upcoming Tests/Projects:

·       Wednesday-Science Test on Electricity (*Study notes on Heat, Light, and Sound; Circuits and Symbols, Parallel v Series Circuits; Conductors v Insulators)

·       Friday-Final Poetry Test (*Study poetry collections and notes in Reading notebook)

·       Friday-Social Studies Test on Key Battles of American Revolution (*Study notes on battles #1-6 in Social Studies notebook)

Homework for the Week:

(please refer to your child's agenda daily for more details-this is only an OUTLINE of what to expect):

·       Read 2 steps (30 minutes) for 100 BC and sign Reading Log *every* night

·       Return Report Cards *sent home Tuesday*

·       Fractions Practice in Math wkbk.

·       STUDY for tests!!!

News from the Beach:

Upcoming Events:  

·       January 20^th-2^nd Nine Weeks Report Cards Sent Home

·       January 23^rd School Spirit Day and 2^nd Quarter Awards

·       February 2^nd- PTA Meeting @ 6:30

·       February 18^th- 2 hour delay for students

Super Surfer of the Week

Cassy is our star student this week for showing the character traits of RESPONSIBILITY, RESPECT, and COOPERATION in the classroom!! She will be our“tweeter” of the week, which is a new responsibility for star students! You can follow our class on twitter.com @mrsburns19girls

                                                           100 Book Challenge Goals

  Good: 233 step

Better: 400 steps

Love, 
Mrs. Burns