February 8th - 12th

Thank you for joining us on Wednesday for our Presidents’ Celebration! We are very proud of the effort our students put into this entire unit, and we hope you enjoyed celebrating with us.

Upcoming Events

Monday, February 15th ~ No School- Presidents' Day

Wednesday, February 17th ~ Science Test

Friday, February 19th ~ WordMasters Challenge Round 2, Resume Wordly Wise
Tuesday, February 23rd ~ Math Club - arrive between 7:15-7:30

Friday, February 26th ~ Social Studies Test

Thursday, March 3rd and Friday, March 4th ~ Parent Teacher Conferences, No School*

Tuesday, March 8^th ~ Verbs Unit Test in Language Arts

Friday, March 11^th ~ End of Third Quarter

Monday, March 14^th - Friday, March 18^th ~ Spring Break

*Please make sure you have signed up for Spring Conferences!  Here are the links to the Sign Up Geniuses:
Mrs. Nash: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0e4bafae28a46-parentteacher3
Miss O'Connor: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4eafaf29a4f49-parentteacher 

Academics 

In Language Arts, we spent the first part of the week practicing and preparing for our Presidents’ Celebration.  We also spent time in language arts practicing analogies and preparing for our next WordMasters Challenge, which is next Friday, February 19^th. Students should be studying in preparation for this challenge. We will resume Wordly Wise after the challenge, and Wordly Wise Lesson 12 will be due Thursday, February 25^th. Finally, we began our next grammar unit over verbs.

In Reading this week, both classes continued their literature circle discussions. Students have been rotating jobs each day. Each group will finish their books towards the end of the next week before beginning a group project.

In Social Studies, we spent time focusing on the Declaration of Independence. Students took pieces of the Declaration and analyzed the meaning and importance of it before sharing it with the class. Next week, we will focus on the differences between the Continental and British armies before learning about some of the later battles in the war. Our test over this unit will be Friday, February 26^th.

In Science this week, we finished off our unit on the human body with a short experiment to learn about the digestive system.  We also reviewed for our test next week.  The test will be on Wednesday, and there is a link to the Quizlet under the "helpful links" section of this page.  Students have a study guide for the test as well.