March 1st

We are starting several new things this month:

Language Arts:
A new theme in our reading series "One Land Many Trails". This will tie in nicely with our social studies. We will go back to our old way of doing weekly spelling words. Just like we did prior to learning the states and capitals. This will start on Monday.

We will be reading one story from their anthology a week and they will have a test on Friday. We will do this for the next two or three weeks. We will also start another chapter book in class the middle of March that will go along with our Social Studies topic "The Sign of the Beaver". The students will also be required to do a writing essay on this book.


Social Studies:
We will begin talking about the Westward Movement. This will continue through the month of March and April. It will conclude with a play the first week of May.
The students also have been given their states for their home research projects. I will hand out the guidelines and rubric on Tuesday so it will go out with the Tuesday folder. Please sign the guideline and return the top page to class with the Tuesday folder. The students will be able to check out a state book from the school library in the next few weeks. They will however need to do the research at home along with the project.

Math:
We will also start Chapter 10 in our math books dealing with angles, identifying, measuring and drawing angles, triangles and quadrilaterals.

Science:
We will continue to learn about the Human Body. This will continue for a few more weeks until we wrap up this chapter. Thank you to Mrs. Bassi for coming and sharing your knowledge with our students! They really enjoyed learning about the digestive system and surgeries.

If there are any other parents that would love to come and share any special talents or hobbies with our students please me know. We would love to have you!

Homework
I know I have not been posting exact homework on this blog. My homework changes often due to how the students are learning on a daily basis. If the majority of the students are not understanding a concept I will not assign that specific homework. There are a few nights the students may not have a given homework, however they ALWAYS HAVE 20-30 MINUTES OF NIGHTLY READING they should be doing at home. In addition they usually have:
**one math page
**plus one additional assignment (spelling, grammar, science, etc)
**on occasions if they do not finish a class assignment
(they must take it home to finish and return the next day)

I hope this helps you to keep track on homework. All students should be writing down their homework assignments on the agendas.

Should you have any questions please stop by.
Mrs. Schisnewski