This Week's Connection

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~ Ralph W. Sockman

Communication Arts: Students are required to have a book to read at all times. They can bring a book from home, check one out in the library, or in our classroom.

• Reading Logs: Reading logs will be sent home every Monday. Students are required to read a total of 100 minutes per week. Reading logs must be filled out completely and signed by a parent/guardian. Completed reading logs must be turned in the following Monday.
• Literacy Focus: Continue with inferring using nonfiction text
• Writing Focus: Expository text. Students will complete writing a newsworthy story for a class newsletter and work on a nonfiction writing about a Leprechaun. We will also work on our Daily Sentence Editing Skills.

Word Study: Sort 16

Hyper Spellers: To recognize how the prefixes inter-, sub-, and over- change the meaning of base words.

Super Spellers: To recognize VCCCV and VV syllable-juncture patterns in words.

Monday-Thursday: Spelling choices and workbook sort 16.

Friday: Test

Math: Fractions and Decimals

• Renaming fractions as decimals
• Rounding Decimals
• Converting between fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals
• Ordering fractions and decimals on a number line
  
• Homework: Study Link 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, Various Worksheets
• Quiz on Friday over Converting Fractions to Decimals 

Science/Health: Solar System Unit

• Introduction to the Web Quest: Exploring our Solar System
• Read Chapter 1 in Earth Science textbook on Planets
• Various Worksheets with the reading and an in-class project with the Web Quest

Social Studies:

• Chapter 9 The Revolutionary War
• Lesson 1: Americans and the Revolution (pp. 338-343)
• Lesson 2: Fighting for Independence (pp. 346-352)
• Worksheet pp. 81, 84-85
  
• Various activities and videos

Contact information for Mrs. Hughes:

Phone: (417) 523-3600 ext. 37131 Email: ahughes@spsmail.org

Website: http://sps.k12.mo.us/disney/adurham/