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Weekly Update August 26-30

Reminders:

  • Please, please, please be sure your student is reading at least 10 pages in their independent reading book each night! It is so beneficial and will help tremendously in their reading comprehension.
  • Tuesday, August 27th- Division Quiz & Spelling Test  
  • Wednesday, August 28th- Early Release 12:30 p.m.
  • Thursday, August 29th- Social Studies Test, Mrs. Stevens Visit
  • Friday, August 30th- Daily Language Quiz, Math Problem Solving Quiz, & Miller Money Store Open 
  • Monday, September 2nd- No School 
  • September 9th-12th- IOWA Testing
  • September 23rd-27th-Fall Break
Curriculum Update
  • ELA/Reading-We will continue our novel study on Fish in a Tree.  Students will continue to use the UNWRAP strategy in reading passages.  We will  learn the comma rule for greetings & closings in a letter, and the comma rule for addresses.  We will continue working on our personal narrative drafts.  This week we will focus on writing a strong conclusion, adding sensory details, transition words, and dialogue. Spelling Test will be on Tuesday, August 27th. 
  • Social Studies- We will continue our study of how life has changed at the turn of the century. We will finish our Ellis Island Webquest, complete and online Immigration Simulation, and learn about the big business boom.  Our unit test will be on Thursday, August 29th.  
  • Math- We will review Division strategies and take our Division Quiz on Tuesday, August 27th.  We will then begin our study of the Place Value System.

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