Too Good For Drugs (T.G.F.D.)
Deputy K met with the students for their first session of the Too Good For Drugs Program on Thursday. He discussed the importance of making good decisions and setting goals for themselves. Students were asked to share information about the program with parents and set a family goal together. This assignment (with parent signature) needs to be completed by Thursday, January 21.
Classroom Spelling Bee
Congratulations to Nauris for winning our Classroom Spelling Bee. Also, congratulations to Nadia for being our close runner-up. Both of these students will participate in the 5th Grade Level Bee on Thursday, January 21. Best of luck, spellers!
Subject Update:
- Spelling - Lesson 17 is a review of lessons 10-16. As you may recall from the last review lesson, the students will be tested in a different way than our usual weekly tests. Students will need to apply the rules and/or spelling patterns from the previous 7 lessons in order to identify a misspelled word in a row of words. You may want to practice finding misspelled words in a similar format to prepare for Friday's test.
- English - We look forward to reading through the students' expository pieces and providing some constructive feedback. Meanwhile, we will dive into a new grammar unit on pronouns. Pronouns can take the place of nouns in sentences.
- Reading - The students will work on building vocabulary by creating words with roots and affixes. Students will determine the meaning of larger words by thinking about the meanings of roots, prefixes, and suffixes. January "Scrapbook" Book Project - Students should be finishing up their realistic fiction stories this week. Don't forget that the book and project must be turned in by Friday, January 29!
- Science - We will review Tuesday about ecosystems to prepare for the Chapter 6 Test on Wednesday, January 20!
- Social Studies - The students will learn about the French exploring and claiming the land around the Mississippi River.
- Mrs. Strong's Math Class - We will be doing some work with prime factorization and learning a neat Venn Diagram method for finding LCM and GCF that I recently discovered. We hope to begin Chapter 12 on fraction concepts at the end of the week.
Mark Your Calendar:
Jan. 18 - No School (M. L. King's Birthday)
Jan. 19 - Check Student Progress on ParentConnect!
Jan. 21 - 5th Grade Level Spelling Bee
Jan. 21 - T.G.F.D. Session 2
