Week of 1/22

Scholastic book orders are due January 31st by 5pm. We will be sending home another order form with winter books this week. Scholastic is a great way to purchase books at your student's reading level as many of the books show the A-Z reading level in the description. If you want to order go to:

http://clubs.scholastic.com

  Class access code: R7VTX

CLASS PICTURE DAY THURSDAY, JAN. 25th 

Our time is at 10:20am. 

Math:  
Mental Math Strategies (Now subtraction) 

• Mental Math Subtraction Strategies 
• Subtract by place value 
• Pull out a 10 (When subtracting a single digit number) 
• Making the previous 10 (When subtracting a single digit number) 
• Subtract a friendly number 

Language Arts: 
Spalding

•  15 word spelling test 
• Cursive is being introduced this week. There will be cursive homework to support the following skills taught. One skill per day. No other work should be done in cursive right now. We will be gradually including it, first into Spalding then into other subjects. 
• Whole alphabet in manuscript to cursive connection  
• Connectors 
• Clock letter day 1 
• Clock letter day 2
• Short upswing day 1 

Grammar

• Parsing sentences with prepositional phrases  

Writing

• Opinion Writing 

Literature

• Little House in the Big Woods chapters 4-6
• Text to self connections 
• Reflect on events 
• Summary
• Reading for details  

Science: 
Cycles in Nature

• Students will understand that earth rotates around an axis 
• Students will understand that the earth revolves around the earth
• Students will understand that the earth's axis is tilted and this is what creates the seasons 
• Students will understand what changes occur during the...
• Summer: Summer solstice- is the first day of summer and the longest day of the year
• Autumn: Autumn equinox- the first day of autumn, migrate-to move from one region to another periodically 
• Winter: winter solstice- the shortest day of the year and the first day of winter, Hibernation- a state of inactivity in some animals, Dormancy- a state of inactivity or rest, such as the state of plants in winter   

History: 
The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights

• Students will be able to explain the preamble in their own words
• Students will be able to describe the purpose of the Bill of Rights 
• The Constitution Packet (Making the Constitution) 
• Constitution: A set of rules that guide how a country works  
• The Preamble to the Constitution (Broken down into bite-sized chunks with explanation) 
• Quiz Mon Jan 29

 Daddy Daughter Dance 

Save the date!  

Feb. 4th 6:30 - 8:30pm 
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