Friday, October 20, 2017

Week of October 23rd

Important Dates:
October 24-26 Parent teacher Conferences
October -27--No School Parent Teacher Conferences
October 31st  Halloween Parties

Reading:  We will continue our Courage theme. We will finish up working on our extended response question for Malala and Jackie Robinson.  We will then read the biography of Gloria Estefan.  Skills we are working on are cause and effect and responding to text-dependent questions.

English: In English,  We will continue a unit on Capitalization and Punctuation. This week's focus is on  Abbreviations and Commas. We will learn how to use commas in a series along with using commas correctly in our every day writing. There will be homework in Google Classroom this week.

Spelling:  Unit 9 : Prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
Words on this week's list will include the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-. We will study the definitions of these prefixes and how they change the meaning of the root word that they are attached to. The final test is scheduled for Thursday, 10/27.

Science:  We will continue  a unit in Life Science. The students are busy working on their Invertebrate projects. Presentations will be on Tuesday.  The test on this lesson has been changed to Thursday.  

Mrs. Bucklin's Math Class: In math this week we will continue Unit Two, Module Three, Multiplication Stories and Strategies. Students investigate the effect of doubling and halving factors in multiplication combinations. The students should also be practicing their multiplication facts nightly. Friday's quiz will be sent home on Monday. The students will be given an open note Multiplication checkpoint on Thursday.