Sunday, April 14, 2013

This Week's Connection

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know.  Be willing to learn from them. ~ Anonymous
  • April is a very busy month with field trips and testing.  Please check our classes' online calendar to be aware of all the dates and times for testing. Also, make sure your student is getting plenty of rest and eating a good breakfast for all of these events.
  • Grades will be updated by Monday, April 15.  Mid-Fourth quarter is Tuesday, April 16.
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.
  • MAP TESTING (10 to 11:55)
  • Literacy Focus:  Monday will be an activity day where we practice various reading skills. We have begun reading the book Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne and we will be doing various multicultural activities with this book.
  • Writing Focus: Student of the week letter. Proof reading practice with capitalization, punctuation, and parts of speech.
  • 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.
Word Study: Proofreading practice with spelling
 
  • No spelling test this week due to MAP testing
Math: Fractions & Measurement
 
  • Review Friday Quiz (this quiz will not be placed in the grade book)
  • Continue with Addition and Subtraction of Fractions: Small group instruction, math games
  • Review Order of Operations
  • Measurement Olympics ~ Tuesday, April 16
  • Homework: None this week due to MAP Testing
Science/Health: Chapter 5: Weather and the Water Cycle
  • Vocabulary
  • The Air Around Us (pp 186-187)
  • Weather (pp 188-191)
  • The Water Cycle (pp 192-199)
  • Observing Weather Patterns (pp 200-205)
  • Videos and worksheets
Social Studies:
 
  • Chapter 12 The Civil War 
  • Lesson 1: North and South (pp. 476-481)
  • Lesson 2: Resisting Slavery (pp. 482-486)
  • Worksheet pp. 115, 116-117
  • Creating regiment flags
  • Special speaker on Quilts and the Underground Railroad
  • Video: Harriet Tubman
  • Gray/Campbell Farmstead Field Trip on Thursday, April 18.
     

Contact information for Mrs. Hughes:
 
Phone: (417) 523-3600 ext. 37131 Email: ahughes@spsmail.org
 
 
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