It was wonderful to see so many of you at Back to School night!

HOMEWORK (due Tuesday): Students should complete ixL Math skills W 5 and Z 1, as well as ELA skill P 1. Students will be doing Fluency week 2, and they are to do 20-30 minutes of reading each night.

THE WEEK AHEAD:

Testing is over, so we are settling into our routines in class. We will have a half-day this Friday to begin our Labor Day weekend. There is no school next Monday.

Religion: We will finish chapter one and begin reading about how God speaks to us in Scripture.

Math: We continue learning about geometric constructions.

Reading: We have begun our first unit of Reader’s Workshop: Interpreting Characters. Everyone is to be reading a realistic fiction book. Please initial the reading log for all reading that is done at home. Click here for a copy of the reading log. READING LOG

Spelling: We started Unit Two today (long and short “e”); the test on these twenty words will be on Friday.

Vocabulary: We continue working on Unit One today; the test will be on Friday. Students should be practicing the synonyms and antonyms using their index cards.

Grammar: Our focus in Unit One is sentences: types of, subjects and predicates, run-ons and fragments.

Social Studies: We have finished reading the first issue and continue this week with issue #2. We will have a test on the first two issues next week.

Science: Our first chapter focuses on ecosystems, learning about their living and non-living components.

Thanking you for your support,

Mrs. Mary Dwyer