Monday, April 25, 2005

What a sunny Monday! Where was this sun for most of the weekend? We only have 24 days left of school and we have a lot of things to accomplish in those 24 days!

Here are today's assignments:

Math - Problem set 115 - this lesson discussed finding area of shapes that combine more than one rectangle. We will have a test tomorrow.

Reading - In Mrs. D's class - We began new novels today. The students had a choice of books. They could choose from: Frindle, The Pinballs, and The Tarantula in My Purse. Each book had a reading assignment for today. Frindle -chapters 1-3
The Pinballs - Pages 1-20
The Tarantula - Pages 1-17
Ask your child which book they picked and what they think so far!

In Mr. H's class - George Washington's Socks - chapter 3.
* We did a cluebuster for some extra math practice!

Health/Science - We watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy video. Ask your child about pollution.

Social Studies - We worked on LEAD, the students need to read the story Jeff Goes to Court in their LEAD books.

Spelling - We began lesson 33 today. The students wrote their words three times each today. Here are the words for this week:
delight, exit, public, increase, freedom, lengthen, backward, liberty, narrow, eastern, entire, western, decrease, private, whole, extend, forward, pleasure, entrance, slender
We will have a pretest over these words on Tuesday and any student who misses zero on the pretest will pick their own challenge words. Also, workbook pages 200-201-202-203 are due on Thursday.

English - We had a visit today by Mrs. B (Mr. H's student teacher) so during this time we had a little party and got to meet her new baby.

**Reminder - We will be going to the Marshall County Court House tomorrow. If your child has a part in our mock trial please remind them to dress the part. They will learn a lot during this experience.

** Have a great night!