Thank you so much for all who attended conferences. We always enjoy being able to share in your child's successes as a student!
In Writing, students will begin learning about an author's purpose as a writer. We will focus on persuading and informing this week, and entertaining next week. This also is a skill that we use as reader's, so knowing how to achieve and identify the purpose is a huge step!
In spelling this week we will begin working on our new spelling list. We will also discuss spelling patterns with /ea/ and the /j/ sound and different ways it is made. On Thursday and Friday we will work hard on prefixes and suffixes and discuss how they can help us determine the meaning of a word as well as how it is spelled.
In math we will return to our Math Expressions lessons. The last 3 lessons in this unit focus on practicing the methods we have learned and reviewing the steps and vocabulary we have covered. Friday will be the test! Looking over class activities 2-1 through 2-19 in the students' math notebooks will help them prepare or study for this test. They will need to know the 3 methods we have learned (Algebraic Notation, Place Value, and Expanded Notation) as well as the vocabulary terms in this chapter (estimate, partial products, rounding, and distributive property). We will also continue working on our multiplication tables in the morning but any extra practice they can do at home will help them greatly!
We will wrap up our Social Studies unit this week by going over the test and graphing it in our data notebooks.
We will go back to Science on Tuesday and continue studying the states of matter (Chapter 13 in their science books). We will discuss physical and chemical changes and review what we know about the particles in different states of matter.
Friday we will be attending the High School play at 1:15. Please make sure to send $1 with your student for their entrance fee before then!
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