November 12-16

Mon., 11/12-Happy Veteran's Day-No School!
Tues., 11/20-Robert Crown Field Trip-9:00-11:00
Wed., Thurs., Fri., 11/21-11/23-Thanksgiving Break! No School, Gobble, Gobble!
Mon., 11/26-2nd Qrt. Book Project book should be finished by today!
Wed., 11/28-"Rockin' Science" Assembly 9:00
Fri., 11/30-One Page TYPED summary of your book is due!
Mon., 12/17-2nd Qrt. Book Project comic or commercial is due today!
Tues., 12/18-2nd Qrt. Book Project Presentations!

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

Coming up this week:

Spelling: Lesson 10

Tuesday-Pretest and work assigned
Thursday-Homework due
Friday-Test

English: Chapter 5-"Capitalization and Punctuation"
We will be studying:
*Correct Sentences
*Proper Nouns and Adjectives
*Commas in a Series
*Interjections
*Quotations
*Abbreviations
*Titles

Unit 5 Test is rescheduled for Friday, November 16th!

Reading: Novels---Character Traits, Summarizing, Drawing Conclusions
We will be starting novels, after reviewing the above skills.  Some students will be starting The 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

Science: Owls
Ask your child how the owl pellet dissection went today!!! (Friday)

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Chapter 6-Decimals

We will :

Lesson 1-Round Decimals

Lesson 2:  Add and Subtract Decimals

Lesson 3:  Estimate Sums and Differences

Lesson 4:  Choose a Method

Lesson 5:  Estimate or Find the Exact Answer

Test will be on Tuesday, November 13th!