Tuesday, September 18, 2012

September 24-28

The newest addition to the Spakausky Family!
8 week old "Kodi".
He is a Goldendoodle!







Maggie (top) and Roxy, (Bichon Frise dogs) not too sure about him yet!!!


If you or anyone you know, has a Goldendoodle, share some tips or pictures with me :))

Coming up this week:
Dates:
Thursday, 9/27th-Picture Day

Spelling: Lesson 4:
Monday-Pretest
Homework due Thursday
Test Friday

English: Chapter 1-"The Sentence"
We will start chapter 1 this week.
*What is a Sentence?
*Four Kinds of Sentences
*Subjects and Predicates
*Subjects in Imperatives
*Conjunctions
*Run-on Sentences


Reading: Informational Text
We will finish our tall tale stories. The students are being extremely creative!!!

We will begin to read some informational text in our anthology book.  We will read several stories.  One will be about lightning and another about volcanoes.  We will practice summarizing and using the context to identify the main idea of each section of our text.


Social Studies: Chapter 4-"Spain Builds an Empire"
Lesson 1-The Voyages of Columbus and what it led to
Lesson 2-Different Worlds Collide-Spanish conquistadors establish new colonies in North America and South America
Lesson 3-Life in New Spain-Spain gaining wealth from the settlement in North America

Our Aztec masks look GREAT!!

The chapter 4 S.S. TEST will be the week of October 1st, so it's not too early to start reviewing!


Science: Science Inquiry
In science we will start with the first section about "Getting Ready for Science."
Lesson 1-What Tools Do Scientists Use?
Lesson 2-What Inquiry Skills Do Scientists Use
Lesson 3-What is the Scientific Method?

What kinds of experiments will we do this week?  Be sure to ask your child what experiment we did in class.  How did we use the scientific method with the experiment?

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Chapter 2-Multiply Whole Numbers
Lesson 1- Mental Math: Patterns in Multiples
Lesson 2- Estimate Products
Lesson 3-Multiply by 1-Digit Numbers
Lesson 4-Multiply by Multi-Digit Numbers
Lesson 5-Problem Solving: Finding a Pattern

Chapter 2 test on Wednesday, September 26th!


Enjoy the rest of our week!



Spakausky's Scoop Oct. 16th

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