Reminder - Student Progress Check
Friday, October 1 marked the 1st trimester midpoint. Please be sure to check your child's progress via ParentConnect if you have not done so already. If a student is working below grade level expectations, a progress report for those subject areas below expectations will be coming home via U.S. mail. Please review, sign, and return those as soon as possible.
Subject Update:
- Spelling - The Lesson 6 pretest will be given on Monday. The students will be assigned homework during the week to practice their words. A final test will be given Friday.
- English - We will be starting Unit 5 about capitalization and punctuation. It begins with a review of the punctuation used with each of the four types of sentences. Then we will identify and capitalize proper nouns and adjectives, and learn how to write many common abbreviations correctly.
- Reading - This week our core reading group (homeroom) will be learning about homonyms/homographs and multiple meaning words. Mrs. Strong's skill-based reading group will focus on identifying main idea and supporting details within nonfiction text.
- Science - The students are currently learning how plants are able to produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis. Students should be able to explain how different structures (parts) of the plant help it get water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to complete this process.
- Social Studies - We will review about the first successful English colony of Jamestown. Then we will hear how the search for a Northwest Passage led to the founding of Dutch and French colonies in North America. Thank you to the Daly family for sending in some great "artifacts" for us to display in the classroom. It will help us get a better understanding of early colonial times!
- Mrs. Strong's Math Class - The students are learning how to estimate the sums, differences, products, and quotients of problems involving decimals. As we practice adding and subtracting decimals next week, students will be able to apply estimation as a strategy for checking if their sums or differences are reasonable. Late in the week, we will get into scientific notation and multiplying with decimals.
Mark Your Calendar:
Oct. 1 - Check Student Progress
Oct. 11 - No School (Columbus Day)
Oct. 20 - Early Dismissal (11:00 a.m.)
