Dear Parents,

Please mark your calendars:

January 17th – Donuts with Dad 7:30 – 8:15 a.m.

No School – January 20th in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

January 22nd – Dine-out Blaze Pizza 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

January 22nd – students present their MLK poem to the class

January 24th – Dine-out Rockin’ Jump 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.

January 31st – Cougar Kiosk 2:30 p.m.

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Here is a look at what we will be working on in class this week:

Math – We are continuing to learn about division and a variety of strategies that we can use when dividing including equal groups, repeated subtraction, number line, bar models, arrays, related multiplication facts and skip counting.  There will be a mid chapter quiz on Monday.  The chapter 7 test will be next week on Wednesday.

Reading –  Small groups are meeting with the teacher for lessons in comprehension and story elements as well as identification of the folktale genre.  The whole class is reading Martina the Beautiful Cockroach in the Wonders anthology.  We will be practicing the reading skill of visualizing as well as identifying the story elements of character, setting, problem and solution.

Vocabulary – Students are learning 5 new vocabulary words this week: emphasize, gullible, isolated, alter and novice.

Writing – Students are writing a stoplight patterned paragraph about their favorite fruit.

Social Studies – Students listened to several read aloud books about Martin Luther King, Jr. last week.  They also read to articles about him together as a class and then compared and contrasted those articles.  This week, students are reading an article in Scholastic News about MLK.  On Tuesday the article will be re-read and students will answer several questions.  On Wednesday, there will be a quiz and a separate written assignment about MLK’s words.

Spelling – The spelling pattern this week is three letter blends such as thr- or scr-.

Grammar – We will be identifying nouns.

P.E. – Tuesdays and Thursdays

Library – Tuesday

Computer Lab – Thursdays