Week of January 30-February 3

This week will be a regular week.  We will begin Unit 4 in our reading series.  The story is title Wings.  We are also moving on in math to area and perimeter.  Reminder that on Thursday and Friday we will have parent/ teacher conferences.  I have everyone scheduled for Thursday.  Because of that some of the conferences will only run about 15 minutes in order to accommodate everyone.  We are about to move in to February so that means we only have one more month until we begin taking the PAWS assessment.  This is a state assessment which means we need to have all students in class during the month of March.  We will begin testing March 7th and hopefully be done by March 16th if everything goes smoothly.  We are asking parents to avoid making any plans for the month of March like trips and vacations.  Spring Break is right around the corner.  If yall could help me with that I would be greatly appreciative.  Below you will find a list of concepts being discussed next week in class.

Reading- Cause and Effect

Grammar- Singular and Plural Pronouns

Spelling- Irregular Plurals

Math- Area and Perimeter

Week of January 23-27

Well we complete our first official full week of school of the new year.  Just a few things.  We will not have a weekly reading, grammar, or spelling test.  We are finished with Unit 3 so instead we will our third benchmark assessment of the year.  You can review all spelling patterns for Unit 3 as well as all grammar concepts starting with action/linking verbs, helping and main verbs, verb tenses, and irregular verbs.  We will be taking our fourth math assessment dealing with quadrilaterals.  They will need to work on identifying them and describing their characteristics.  Friday was the official start of the third quarter.  Students will receive their third quarter point goal this week so please make sure students are reading at least 20-30 minutes a night.  Lastly we have completed winter MAP assessments.  We will now begin looking toward PAWS and getting the students ready for that assessment.  I hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend. 

Week of January 16-20

What a crazy week.  It was good to get back into the classroom after all that snow.  It was decided today that the last day of the 2nd quarter will be Thursday, January 19th.  All AR goals must be completed by the end of that day.  Next week we will finish our last story in Unit 3 title Volcanoes.  Using that story we will cover comparing and contrasting, along with Irregular Verbs, and our spelling will cover words with WR, KN, MB, and GN.  In math we are looking at geometry specifically quadrilaterals.  Donuts with dads will be Friday, January 20th.  There is a modified Friday Flier coming home this weekend but no updates with each grade level.  I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and we will see everyone on Monday.

Week of January 9-13

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break and snow day.  I want to remind everyone that Monday the 9th and Friday the 13th are early release days so students will be getting out at 12:50 that day.  Next week we will continue in our reading street series with a story title A Symphony of Whales.  This story has proven to challenging in the past so please make sure students are reading it every night and discussing it with you.  We have taken our third math assessment which dealt with multiplication and division along with strategies.  Please make sure students are practicing their math facts nightly.  We will begin getting into Geometry by discussing quadrilaterals and the different types of quadrilaterals.  Friday, January 13th is the last day of the quarter so please make sure students are reading and trying to get their AR points.  Lastly we will begin our winter MAP testing so please make sure students get a good nights rest and a nutritious breakfast in the morning.  I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.