It was an exciting week! We are finished with our winter maps testing and we had a wonderful marble party!! Remember today is an early dismissal day and Monday we are off for the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Next week we will be having two practice spelling bees in our classroom. The top two from the 2nd bee will go to the 3rd grade bee on 1/28. A list of words is in your child’s binder.
Weather looks to be improving. Hopefully our students can get back outside for recess soon!
Coming up this week:
Spelling: Lesson 15. Cursive homework (for all) will be due on Wednesday. ABC order will be due on Friday. Test will be Friday. Students that test out of the regular words on Tuesday will have to choose 2 challenge activities, using the challenge words. That, too, will be due on Friday. No test for those students.
Language Arts: We will continue our Traditions unit. We’ll focus on the story The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. The children have a list of vocabulary words in their writing spirals and we’ve been reviewing regularly. There will be a quiz on Thursday.
I've been reading aloud to the students from our anchor text, The Year of the Dog. It’s an enjoyable story about a family living in America with roots in Taiwan. Ask your child about it! Our WOW quiz will be on Friday.
We’ll work on prefixes and suffixes for the next few weeks.
Social Studies: An open book, open note graded review of lesson 2, chapter 12, will occur on Wednesday. There won’t be a “final” test on this chapter. We’ll be moving on to chapter 3 at the end of the week. Chapter 3 works very well with our language arts unit since it is about people moving from place to place, bringing their traditions with them.
Science: Lesson 2, chapter 11 (Matter) graded review (open notes/book) will be on Tuesday.
Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: This week we’ll continue Topic 6, More Multiplication Facts. We will finish the chapter and work on a pretest on Friday. The final test for this unit will be on Monday, 1/26. I’ll also be testing on the 6’s and the 7’s facts this week.
Important Dates:
1/16 - Early Dismissal (11:00)
1/19 - Martin Luther King’s Birthday (no school)
1/28 - 3rd grade Spelling Bee
2/4 - “Matter Matters” in school field trip
Have a great 3-day weekend! Mrs. Klacza
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