12-11-16

What's happening this week???
Monday: Science test
Tuesday:
Wednesday: Glee club meeting for interested students (during school)
Thursday: RC #7 due
Friday: November December reading checklist due

Next week:
Christmas party: December 20th.  We'll be watching a movie and eating snacks.
December 21st: lip sync contest and last day of school before break...dismiss at 1:00


Spelling: We'll continue working on homophone spelling words this week.  Our test over these words will be on Friday.  Kids will not only have to know how to spell them, but they'll have to know which one goes in any particular sentence.

Vocabulary: Our figurative language vocabulary will continue throughout this week also.  We're learning about personification, similes, metaphors, and idioms this week.  Our figurative language vocabulary test will be next week.

Reading: We will be reading and comprehending poetry this week. We'll be learning about lines, stanzas, themes, and rhyme.  We'll concentrate on how to comprehend these sometimes difficult pieces of writing.

Science: Our earth cycles test will be on Monday.  The kids will be able to use their notes for this test. They took home their study guide on Friday.  We'll be completing our computer science unit this week as well.  Coding will continue throughout the year though.

Grammar: Friday we ate our adjectives!  What??? Yep, we taste tested several types of foods and wrote as many adjectives as we could to describe them.  We'll continue our adjective study throughout this week.