January 23-27 Resource Week: 1Dear Families,Please make sure to read the Homework Log carefully, check off the assignments as your child completes them, fill out the reading book pages, and sign the log each night. We don’t want your child spending more than 45 minutes each night on homework. Please use your discretion in how much time your child needs to study his/her science and social studies flashcards. Also, many students do not have necessary school supplies such as pencils, scissors, and glue. Please ask your child if he or she needs any of these supplies.

Reading MathWe will continue our autobiography/biography unit this week. The students will hear an autobiography about children’s author Lois Ehlert and a biography about Frederick Douglas. We will review and practice writing summaries about these two individuals using what we learned about them in their autobiography or biography together as a class. We will also draw conclusions about the character of these individuals based on what we have read. The students will then be writing a summary about author Maya Angelou. In addition, the students will be writing autobiographies themselves.

Students The T We will continue our unit on Fractions this week. This week our instruction will focus on reading fractions on a number line and determining fractions of a set. In determining fractions on a number line, the students must count the parts between two whole numbers on the number line to determine the denominator, and the part that the number line stops in the numerator. Please see example below. An example of fractions of a set is determining 1/5 of 15.

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Word Study WritingPlease remember that your child needs to take home his/her Word Study Notebook each night and return it to school every day. Your child’s nightly word study activities are pasted on the front cover of the students’ word study notebooks for your reference. Your child’s words are in a pouch in their WILDCAT Binder. Please read the Nightly Word Study Pamphlet to make sure your child is completing the assignments correctly. Your child will keep these spelling words for two weeks due to two shortened weeks in a row.

The students will continue responding to the novel THE BFG and writing about connections from their life they can make to events and circumstances in the novel. As mentioned under the “reading” section, the students will also be writing their autobiographies.

Science Social StudiesWe will be reviewing how to classify or group items and events in science this week. We will have a classifying quiz on Friday. The students need to be able to observe sets of animals and distinguish the differences between them in order to group them into sets and subsets. Don't forget to study your flashcards this week. 

This week we will focus on laws including the purpose of laws, how laws are made, and how the three parts of our government work together to make and carry out the laws, as well as decide if laws are constitutional or have been broken.

Important Dates to Remember:January 23rd Chocolate Fundraiser Ends February 10th Interim Reports sent home

February 10th PTO Family Dance Night 5:30-7:30 February 16th Parent Teacher Conferences 4-6

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