Quarter 3/Week 2

   We have a lot going on in this quarter! In Reading, we learned a few new Cafe 5 reading strategies. This next week, the students will create and present their cereal box book reports. Thank you to all who sent in cereal boxes, all students have a cereal box for their report.  Please remind your child to have their books finished by the time they come into school on Tuesday. I have told them they need to have it finished by January 19.  We will start working on the book reports first thing Tuesday morning.

   In 5th Grade Writing, the students have been busy working on their animal research papers.  Your child should have come home with a rough draft of their paper.  They were not required to come home with it, but I encouraged them to do so in hopes that you would help them revise and edit the papers. What you are looking for is correct spelling, complete sentences, and correct formatting. We will continue to work on those this week, when students finish their paper, they will work on a slideshow to present their paper to the class. We will present these papers on Monday January 27, that is when they need to be completely done with their papers.  All students have been working very hard on these papers. 

   In 4th Grade Writing, the students finished their first Expository paper on their New Year's Resolutions.  I have started grading a few of them and I have to say I am pretty impressed with what I have seen so far. :) This week, we will start working on different grammar and various Language skills such as, learning how to use reference materials, synonyms and antonyms.

   In Projects, we have learned more about Matter and will continue on with Matter this week.

Thank you to all that sent in auction items! It was very successful this week! We will have two more auctions, one at the end of quarter 3 and one at the end of school. Feel free to send in items anytime. It can even be something that is lying around the house that no one uses anymore. The Dollar Store has a lot of great things too! 

   I hope everyone is having a great long weekend!