February 22, 2016
Reading – Students should be reading their cereal box book and aim to finish it by
Friday (they may take it home over the weekend if needed). We are working on cereal box projects in class, as well as nonfiction books and text features in reading groups.
Literature circles will be postponed because of the snow and will happen after cereal boxes are finished. Please bring in a box if you have not!! If you need to check the level of a book your child is reading, online sources like Scholastic can be very helpful!
Writing –
We are combining writing with science this week and are researching weather for a nonfiction weather book! Students will be researching in groups, and then individually create a nonfiction book on the weather/storms/etc.
Math
There will be a small BASIC fractions quiz on Wednesday (name of fraction parts, whole/set, coloring in a fraction, placing a fraction on a number line). We are using multiples and factors to solve more complex fraction problems. Students are learning to add fractions with unlike denominators, as well as simplify fractions. Fractions can be a difficult unit! Stay strong!
Social Studies –We will begin Ms. Abbate’s favorite social studies subject……..Revolutionary War!!
SPEECHES FOR SPACE POWERPOINTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN CLASS AT THE END OF THIS
WEEK OR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK (lab time has been complicated due to testing).
Reminders

1.
The Read-a-Thon starts this week and continues through next Friday. WE will set aside time for independent reading each day in class, and I encourage you, as always, to have a set reading time for the students at home every day. You can send in Read-a-
Thon donation this week or pay on line.
2.
Please continue to work on Reflex Math at home. I am seeing such an improvement in many of the students’ timed test scores in multiplication and division! Students are using these facts as they put fractions in simplest form, find the LCD of 2 fractions, and when we will start changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and mixed numbers to improper fractions.
3.
The Variety Show is this Friday at Dominion High School.
4.
If you read the Monday Memo please draw a smile with a mustache in your child’s planner! 