We have been working hard during the month of February! It has been nice to be back in the classroom with your children.  All of the children did an outstanding job on their Book Box Reports.  The boxes, puppets, and wanted posters are so creative.  They are decorating our classroom.

New to Sunrise: the library is hosting An Evening in the Library once a month on Tuesday evenings.  Please stop by to enjoy and visit our library!

A recap of February and looking ahead to March:

ELA:  Spelling – we finished with final /el/ and /en/; prefixes; and words with /cher/ and zure/. This week we are studying the suffixes –ance and –ence. We will be studying more suffixes (-ous, -tion, -ic, –ness, and ly); homophones, and more prefixes in the future.

Grammar – we spent the two short weeks in February reviewing prepositions and prepositional phrases and how to punctuate titles before we moved on to the nouns in prepositional phrases and further study of title punctuation.

 

Writing – we have written our Magellan essays and are fine-tuning the revisions and editing. Your child’s essay can be viewed on their Google classroom account.

 

Reading – we started and are almost finished reading the novel Blood on the River that is set during the colonization of Jamestown and provides primary document quotes at the beginning of each chapter. The book also describes the rough journey across the Atlantic Ocean and the living conditions that we read in the primary documents of the Magellan DBQ.

Math:  we completed Chapter 6, Add and Subtract Fractions with Unlike Denominators and took the chapter test. Several students were absent and still need to make-up the test, which is why it has not been sent home, yet.

We are also completing Chapter 7, Multiply Fractions and will take the Chapter 7 test on Friday. We will begin Chapter 8, Divide Fractions, next week.

Social Studies:  We are finishing the novel Blood on the River (see reading).

Science: We have been studying matter and atoms. Our studies have been a combination of Chapter 7 in our Science book and background/more information via GLAD posters and chants.

A look ahead:

03/06 (tonight) An Evening in the Library

03/07 students bring in books for the Paperback Book Exchange

03/08 Paperback Book Exchange

03/09 Math Chapter 7 Test (Multiplying Fractions)

03/20??? American Revolution brought to the classroom?? (I’m waiting to receive more information)

03/03 Minimum Day ~ Moustache Spirit Day

 

04/03 An Evening in the Library

04/11 Family Science Night from 5 pm to 7 pm

04/25 Minimum Day/TRACK OFF ~ Sports Spirit Day

04/26 CommUNITY Carnival 4 pm – 8 pm