Important Announcements:
-Winter break starts on Thursday, December 22nd through Sunday, January 8th. School will resume on Monday, January 9th.
-Quarter 2 Evaluations will be sent to parents on Friday, January 6that noon.
Here is what to expect this week:
Literature:
This week we will finish our Frog and Toad unit with an assessment on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday we will be reading the Little Red Riding Hood and Lon Po Po stories. Students will discuss the similarities and differences between the two stories and make puppets!
Spalding:
Monday: they, would, could, should, any, many, city, only ,where, week, weak
Tuesday: Review
Wednesday: Spelling test, WPR test, Reading test
Writiing:
This week we will be reading excerpts from The Light Princess. Students will listen to passages and retell important details from the story. We will also work on basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite model sentences.
Grammar:
Students will practice writing sentences using adjectives, subject noun, verbs, and adverbs. They will review the five parts of a sentence, and on Tuesday they will work independently to create two sentences for a grade.
History:
This week in History we will learn about Jesus’ last week of life on earth. We will learn about Palm Sunday, the crucifixion, and the resurrection. On Wednesday we will celebrate our studies of Judaism and Christianity in our end-of-the-year party, with special foods from each religion, along with crafts and stories.
Science:
This week we will review the scientific method with a candy cane experiment! We will predict what will happen if we put candy canes in cups of vinegar, warm water, and cold water. After the experiment we will make observations about the effect of vinegar, warm water, and cold water on the candy canes.
Math:
Over the next three days we will spend time reviewing addition and subtraction with some very festive winter activities. This will help us make sure that we have achieved mastery of adding and subtracting so that we can start off next quarter ready to learn even bigger numbers!
Have a wonderful Sunday!
