I hope everyone had a nice long weekend. Remember, no school next Monday 1/21 to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Report cards come home in back pack mail this Friday.
Spelling: Unit 15 test will be this Friday. Words will be uploaded after school tomorrow.
5H Math: Well, we are still working on finishing up our unit 5 test. I hope everyone will finish on Tuesday or be very close to finishing. Once we are finished with our test, we will try some more challenging fraction addition and subtraction problems that include borrowing in order to subtract. We will also review some skills from previous units including reading and writing decimals, and adding, subtracting, and dividing decimals.
Reading/Writing: Last week kids wrote a prediction about their independent reading books. This week they will tell whether their prediction was correct or not and explain what did happen if they were incorrect. We will talk about why constantly making and confirming or rejecting predictions helps us as readers. Students will also have their daily independent reading time and I will be conferencing with students.
This week students will get back several writing pieces. They will read any feedback I had for them, and I will ask them to determine what they most need to work on and what they are doing well. Students will bring these pieces and their thoughts home to share with you!
Students will complete another expository writing piece this week, practicing organizing our thoughts in the 4-square. Students have started another writer's workshop writing piece of their choice...ask them what they chose to write about!
Grammar: This week we will learn about personal pronouns and why pronouns are useful in our writing.
Science: This week our exploration of magnets will help us to determine what magnets attract, if magnetism can pass through objects, and we will have fun with magnetic "tug of war".
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