The students will continue with Chapter 15 learning about how to live out the Fourth Commandment.  The test on Chapter 15 will be Thursday, 2-9.  Then in Chapter 16, the students will learn what it means to live the Fifth Commandment by respecting all human life.

 MATH

The students will continue working with division this week.  They will learn to interpret remainders, regroup to find two digit quotients, and estimate quotients.  The test on Chapter 8 will be the week of 2-13.

 READING

We will review on Monday for the Because of Winn Dixie test and the test will be on Tuesday 2-7.  Next we will be working on our Underground Railroad Unit for Black History Month. 

 LANGUAGE ARTS

The students will continue to work on their poetry unit.  I continue to remind the students that they should be completing their final poem at home whether it is going to be handwritten or word processed.  The due date on the poetry book is Wednesday, 2-22.  The poetry presentation is on Thursday, 2-23 at 2PM. 

 SCIENCE

We will be review on Wednesday and Thursday for the Chapter 13 test, and the test will be on Friday, 2-10.  In Chapter 14, the students will be learning about light and heat.  They will learn how light behaves, how heat can be transferred and how is heat produced and used.

We will begin Chapter 15 where the students will learn that the Fourth Commandment teaches us to respect and honor our parents, guardians, and all people in authority.

READING

We will continue reading the novel, Because of Winn Dixie.  The students will  continue to respond to blogs on the internet and working on specific skills associated with the novel.  The test will be the week of 2-6.

MATH

The students will begin learning division in Chapter 8.  They will learn how to regroup in division, find two digit quotients with and without remainders, determine what to do with remainders, and estimate quotients.  The test on Chapter 8 will be the week of 2-6.

LANGUAGE ARTS

The students will continue working on their poetry book for the next two weeks.

SCIENCE

In Chapter 13, the students are learning about the properties of sound, how sound waves travel, and learn how the human ear functions.  The test on Chapter 13 will be the week of 2-6.

Social Studies-The children will complete their final test on Chapter 9  Feb.1st. On Friday Feb. 3rd they will have an open book unit test on Ch 8-9. Please make sure your child has found the pages for main ideas,people, places, and terms .They have been shown how to find them in their text.

Math- On Monday the students will have an open book Unit test on multiplication. Please make sure your child understands the distributive and associative properties. We will begin our study of division with remainders next week. Please make sure your child is practicing their division facts. They should know them  through the nines.

Reading- We have completed our study of Hatchet. We will be working in our regular text this coming week. The focus will be on comprehension and making inferences.

Language Arts- We have begun our poetry unit. Please read the information that is being sent home today. A rubric will be sent home next week.

Reminders: Open House is this coming Sunday, the 29th. We urge everyone to attend. Catholic School week begins next week.

We are out of tissue,baby wipes, and paper towels. If you can bring in any of these items ,it will be appreciated.

RELIGION

We completed Chapter 11 and the test on that chapter will be on Wednesday, 1-18.  We will next begin Chapter 12 where we will focus on the Eucharist and will learn that receiving the Body and Blood of Christ nurtures and strengthens us to be active followers of Christ.

 MATH

We are beginning Chapter 7 where the students will learn to multiply two-digit numbers by three, four, and five-digit numbers.  They will also learn how to decide whether the answer to a problem is reasonable.  The test on Chapter 7 will be the week of 1-23.

READING

We will begin reading the novel, Because of Winn Dixie, this week.  We are going to try something new with this novel.  Instead of a packet, the students will be required to respond to questions through a secure blog that has been set up with Mrs. Flickinger.  The students have been instructed on how to access this blog.  The test on the story will be when we finish the book.

 LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

In Shurley English, we will be reviewing for the Chapter 5 test which will be on Thursday, 1-19.  In Chapter 6, the students will be learning about interjections, possessive nouns, clauses and subordinate conjunctions, and complex sentences.  SPELLING –  We will begin Unit 7 – the five new words for this unit are oh, person, hot, anything, and hold.  In this unit we will also be working with compound words and reviewing suffixes.  The test on Unit 7 will be the week of 1-23.

 SCIENCE

We will review for the Chapter 12 test next week which will be on Friday, 1-20.  In Chapter 13, the students will be learning about sound and its properties.  They will learn how sound waves travel and how our hearing works.

Social Studies We are finishing up Chapter 8 Water and Land of The Midwest. We will review on Tuesday, Jan.17 , and the test will be on Wednesday, Jan.18th.

Reading The students are reading the novel Hatchet. They are working in small groups. Skills tested are comprehension,making inferences,predicting outcomes,cause/effect relationships, and analyzing setting, character, and plot.

Math In math we are working on multiplying by two digit numbers. Please review with your child the necessary steps. Next week the children will complete the Quick Check on p. 183. A timed test on eights will also be next week.

Shurley English Next week the children will complete Practice 16 in their Shurley English books. It will be the last Language grade taken. Please review with your child.

Important dates: The end of the quarter is Jan. 20th. Open House is January 29th.

Thanks to all who donated tissue for the class. We are almost out again. We are also in need of baby wipes.

We will begin Chapter 10 where the students will learn that we follow the Second Commandment by respecting and honoring the name of God.  The test for Chapter 10 will be Tuesday, 12-20.  We will then start Chapter 14 where the students will learn that during the Christmas season, we celebrate the Son of God’s coming into the world.

 READING

We will finish reading the novel Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing the week of 12-12 and the test will be on Friday, 12-16.  The week of 12-19, we will read from the reading text the story “Leah’s Pony.”  We will be reviewing the skills of cause and effect and sequence of events.  The test for this story will be on Thursday, 12-22.

 MATH

We are continuing with Chapter 6 for the next two weeks.  The students will be estimating products, regrouping ones or tens to multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers, and learning the strategy of guess and check to solve a problem.  The test for Chapter 6 will not be until we return from our Christmas break.

 LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

The student will be writing a narrative essay for the next two weeks.  Spelling – We will begin Unit 6 – five new core words – special, ran, full, town, complete.  The students will learn spelling patterns for /ou/, learn about silent letters in words, and work with suffixes. 

 SCIENCE

We will finish our study of mass and matter and the test on Chapter 11 will be on Wednesday, 12-21.

Math  In Chapter 6 we are focusing on multiplying two digit numbers by one digit numbers. It is very important that your child knows all of his/her multiplication tables up to the 12′s.I have been stressing this since the first week of school.

Social Studies  We are finishing up out study of the Southeast. The test on Chapter 7 will be next Wednesday, Dec. 14th.

Reading  Today we began our novel study of Henry Huggins.The students are working together in literature circles.They will be analyzing character, plot, and summary. They will also define new vocabulary.

Spelling  The new words for Unit 6 are: special, ran, full, town, and complete. Please make sure your child reviews all the words they’ve had so far as it is a spiral program and they will appear again.

Thanks to those who provided baby wipes this week. We still need tissu. We are on our last box.

Please remember to bring in stamps and food for the Christmas baskets.

The students will learn that in Advent we prepare for the coming of the Lord.  We will then begin Chapter 9.  This chapter will present the First Commandment which teaches us that there is but one true God.  The test on Chapter 9 will be the week of December 5^th.

 READING

We are going to begin reading the novel, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing this week.  The students will have a packet with questions to complete while we are reading the novel as well as activities such as creating a commercial, writing a news article, and writing a how to speech.  This will all be done in the classroom.  There will be a test at the end of the novel.

 MATH

We are continuing with Chapter 5 where the students will write equations to represent and solve problems and relate equations to function tables.  The test for Chapter 5 will be on Friday, 12-2.  In Chapter 6, the students will be multiplying two and three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers with regrouping.

 LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

In Shurley English, we will be learning about subject pronouns and possessive pronouns.  We will also learn about coordinate conjunctions and compound parts of sentences and review homonyms.  The test on chapter 4 will be the week of December 5^th.   SPELLING – We will begin unit 5 this week.  The five new core words are fire, ready, green, yes, and built.  In this unit the students will learn the frequent spelling patterns for /j/ and review prefixes and suffixes.  The Unit 5 test will be the week of 12-12.

SCIENCE

The students will present their planet projects this week.  We will also begin our study of physical science where the students will learn that energy causes changes in the states of matter.  In Chapter 11, they will learn that the physical properties of matter can be used to identify it even if it has changed states or been mixed with other matter.

We will continue with Chapter 8 to learn about God’s law and learn about ways we can show love for others by our actions.  The Chapter 8 test will be on Tuesday, 11-22.  Chapter 9 will present the First Commandment which teaches us that there is but one true God.

READING

We will be reading the story, “Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World” from  our reading textbook.  We will review the skill of prediction and the test will be on Friday, 11-18.  Next week we will  be reviewing different reading skills.

LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

In Shurley English, the students will be learning about the preposition flow and transition words.  The test for Chapter 3 will be on Friday, 11-18.  In Spelling, the students will be working with prefixes and suffixes and reviewing the frequent spelling patterns for /s/.  The Unit 4 cloze story test will be on Thursday, 11-17.

MATH

We are continuing in Chapter 5 where the students will be using variables to write expressions, comparing expressions, and writing and solving equations with variables.  They will also be relating equations to function tables.  The test for chapter 5 will be the week of 11-28.

SCIENCE

The students will review for the chapter 10 test which will be on Thursday, 11-17.  The students will then present their constellation report to the class.  The students will receive the directions for their next project on Monday, 11-14.  Please review the directions with your child and sign the letter attached to them.  The due date for the report is stated on the
letter.

We will finish Chapter 5 this week and the test will be on Wednesday.  Next the students will be learning about the Church’s liturgical year and how in ordinary time we celebrate the life and teachings of Jesus.  Then we will begin learning about God’s law and His covenant with Moses and the Israelites.  

 READING

In the last newsletter, I stated that there would be a test on Skinny Bones.  We will not have a test on this novel.  The grade will be based on the packet that the students will be completing while we are reading the novel.  We are continuing with reading the novel for the next two weeks.

 LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

In Shurley English, we will be learning about prepositions, objects of prepositions, and prepositional phrases.  We will also be learning the subject/verb agreement rules and learn to identify complete subjects and predicates in sentences.  SPELLING – We will begin Unit 4 – the five new core words are rest, perhaps, certain, six, and feel.  In this unit we will learn frequent spelling patterns for /s/, how a vowel followed by r stands for a new sound, and review prefixes and suffixes.

 MATH

We will continue to work on Chapter 4 where the students will learn to multiply 3 digits and divide with a remainder.  The test for Chapter 4 will be on Friday, 11-4.  In Chapter 5, the students will use the order of operations to simplify expressions, use variables to write expressions, compare expressions, and write and solve equations.

 SCIENCE

We will begin Chapter 10 where the students will learn how the Earth and its moon move.  We will explore why seasons exist, learn how the Earth’s tilt affects the seasons, and identify planets and other objects in the sky.    With this chapter, the students will be working on a project where they will create a travel poster or a power point presentation of a brand-new vacation resort on a planet in the solar system or a planet’s moon.  They will be receiving directions for this project the week of October 31^st.  The test for Chapter 10 will be the week of November 7^th.