Week of 3/16/15 - 3/20/15 & 3/23/15 - 3/27/15

Hurray!   We finish PARCC testing this afternoon!!   We do have a number of makeups to do this week, however, so it’s not the end yet…   Soon!!

I wanted to let you all know that I won’t be sending out a blog next Friday (3/20.)  My husband is having back surgery on 3/19 so I won’t be here the 19th or the 20th.  I’ll give you an update on both weeks in this blog.  Thank you for always being so understanding!!

Also, students have been going outside for recess again.  Great news, but our recess supervisors are telling us that at 11:20 in the morning it is still chilly out; the students need their jackets on!!   Please remind your child that the coats they wear to school are also worn at recess.  

Coming up this week AND the following week:

Spelling:  Lessons 21 and 22.   Cursive homework will be due on Tuesday.  Testing on Fridays.  ABC order OR 2 challenge activities due on Thursday.   

Language Arts: We will begin our new unit called Folktales, Fables, & Myths OH MY!!  Rumpelstiltskin will be our first story which we will close read together.  We’ll also be reading The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling as our read-aloud.  

We’ll type our autobiography project this week.  

We’ll learn a new set of WOW words both weeks.  The quizzes will be on Fridays.

This week we will continue working in our English textbook, focusing on adverbs!  There will be an adverbs quiz on Friday, 3/20, and an English test on both adjectives and adverbs on Wednesday, 3/25.  We will review before the test.

Social Studies: We will continue our Chicago unit.  Our first quiz will be on Monday, 3/23.  A study guide will come home Tuesday.

Science:  We’ll continue chapter 14, Heat, Light, and Sound.  Our lesson 4 graded review will be on Thursday.  Chapter 14 test will be on Tuesday, 3/24.  

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:  Our Unit 9 test will be on Monday, 3/16.  We’ll then begin Unit 10, Fraction Comparison and Equivalence.  Our timed division tests will continue until we get to the 11’s.  The final test will be a “mix” and then we’ll be done!   Hooray!!!

Important Dates:

3/19 - Early Dismissal  

3/27 - End of Day, Spring Break begins!

4/7 - Teacher Institute (no school)

4/8 - Back to school!

Have a great weekend!   Mrs. Klacza