December 3-7

Girls at the Robert Crown Field Trip!

Ask your child about our visitor, "Greenie" today!
What lesson did your child learn from this activity???

What is coming up?

Mon., 12/17-2nd Qrt. Book Project comic or commercial is due today!
Tues., 12/18-2nd Qrt. Book Project Presentations!

Wed., 12/19-Bowling field trip in the A.M.

Fri., 12/21-Tivoli Theater-movie field trip---Polar Express

Good Basket donations----Thanks to ____________ for donating this week. (items or monetary donations excepted)

Coming up this week:

Spelling: Lesson 12
Monday-Pretest
Thursday-Homework due
Friday- Test

English: Chapter 5-Writing (6 traits) 
We will be studying:
Writing

Reading: Novels---Character Traits, Summarizing, Drawing Conclusions
We will be starting novels, after reviewing the above skills.  Some students will be startingThe Kid in the Red Jacket and some will be reading Touching Spirit Bear.  You will see some "X"s in the "gradebook" computer and that will just mean that your child's grade isn't in the book category.  Each book group will get their own grades.

Social Studies: Chapter 5-"The Struggle to Found Colonies"

We will learn about :

Lesson 1-"Hard Times in Virginia"-Jamestown and how colonies survived

Lesson 2-"New European Colonies"-Searching for the Northwest Passage

Lesson 3-"The First Colonies"-New England Colonies

Lesson 4-"The 13 Colonies"-William Penn and Roger Williams

Chapter 5 Test on Tuesday, December 4th!

Science: Chapter 6-"Ecosystems and Change"
We will learn:
Lesson 1-How Do Organisms Compete and Survive in an Ecosystem?
Lesson 2:How Do Ecosystems Change Over Time?
Lesson 3:How Do People Affect Ecosystems?

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Chapter 23-Perimeter and Circumference

We will :

This is a short chapter. We covered it this week.  We talked about perimeter this week and next week we will cover circumference. 

The chapter 23 test will be on Tuesday, December 4th!