Wednesday, March 27, 2013

This Week's Connection

Praise the children and they will blossom. ~ Irish Proverb


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: Nonfiction
  • Writing Focus: Persuasive Essays. We will also work on our Daily Sentence Editing Skills.
  • Grammar: Nouns, Verbs, and Incomplete Sentences
Word Study: Sort 17
  • Hyper Spellers:To identify the prefixes quadr-, tetra-, quint-, pent-, and dec- and understand how they influence the meaning of words.      
  • Super Spellers:To recognize VCV, VCCV and VVCV syllable-juncture patterns in words.
  • Monday-Thursday: Spelling choices and workbook sort 17.
  • Friday: Test
Math: Measurement
  • Customary Units: Length, Capacity, Weight, Time, and Temperature
  • Homework: Various Worksheets
  • Quiz on Friday covering lessons from this week 
Science/Health: Solar System Unit
  • Completion of the Web Quest: Exploring our Solar System
  • Introduction of Moon Phases
  • Read Chapter 1, Lesson 5 and 6 in Earth Science textbook on Moon Phases 
  • Various Worksheets with the reading and an in-class project with the Web Quest
Social Studies:
  • Chapter 9 The Revolutionary War
  • Lesson 3: Winning Independence (pp. 356-361)
  • Lesson 4: Effects of the War (pp. 364-369)
  • Worksheet pp. 86, 88
  • Various activities and videos
Congratulations to our Language Arts Department (LAD Fair) Winners! Click on the link for further information.  If you choose to attend fair day, April 27, please do NOT take home the writings.  I will gather all the writings that were submitted by our students.  You are welcome to take a picture and then place the writing back in the pile.
  • Letters ~ 1st Place: Kelly
  • Biopoem ~ 3rd Place: Kylee, Honorable Mention: Keegan
  • Haiku ~ 1st Place: Serena, 2nd Place: Austin
  • Short Free Verse ~ 1st Place: Serena
  • Limerick ~ 3rd Place: Yvette
  • Classroom Newspaper ~ 1st Place, 3rd Place, and Honorable Mention (Several students)
  • LAD Writing Hall of Fame Nominee: Serena
Contact information for Mrs. Hughes:

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


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