Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Newsletter 3-12 to 3-16

Reminders:
3/20 – First day of spring
3/21 – PTA meeting 6:30 in library
3/22 – Book order due
3/23 No School
3/28 – CapCom writing contest entry due


This week’s topics:
·         Writing – We’ll begin working on ELA NYS test book 3 which asks us to go through the writing process while comparing two texts
·         Café – note taking
·         Vocabulary – equivalent, mixed number, improper fraction, adaptation, camouflage
·         Spelling –suffixes –ion, -ness, -able, -less, -ful
·         Grammar – verbs

This week’s topics:
·         Mixed numbers
·         Improper fractions
·         Drawing a picture to solve a problem
·         Review of chapter 13
·         Test Friday


          We were so excited to kick of our NYS Animal Research project!  Each student in our class was assigned a NYS animal and a partner from Ms. Smith’s class.  As a team, they will be note taking from books, encyclopedias, and internet site to gain information for a power point presentation.  They’ll learn all about habitats, classification, movement, appearance, etc. of the animal.  Wait to you see the finished products!