Week of December 6-10

Welcome to a new week!  I am looking forward to returning to school now that my family and I are finally feeling better!  I hope everyone enjoyed the field trips and I'm sorry I missed them.  Please remember, if you signed up for Girls' Night Out at the Harmony Harvest we are rescheduling for this Friday, December 10th.  Please plan to stay after school with me that day until 4:00pm for pizza, nails, and other fun girl stuff!

Reminders:

If you signed up to buy an item for our Husky-Helping House child, please send that item in by Monday, December 13 so the kids can wrap the gifts to be sent off later next week.  :o)

Here is what's coming up in class this week...

Upcoming Tests:

• Facts Tests
• Social Studies Test over Williamsburg on Wednesday
• Math Test over Fractions, Decimals and Percents on Thursday
• Word Study Quiz over prefixes un, mis, and im on Friday

Math:  How do I convert fractions and decimals to percents?  How do I read bar graphs and circle graphs to understand data?

We will be wrapping up our current math unit this week.  As always, the kids may take home one of the purple math books I have if needed, but the math notebook should also have everything they need to help complete assignments.

Reading:  What are literary devices and how they used in reading?

This week we will begin to examine literary devices and how they are used to make reading more interesting.

Social Studies:  What was life like in colonial Williamsburg?

Our test over colonial Williamsburg will be Wednesday, followed by a new social studies unit over the growing tensions between Britain and the colonies.  During this unit the students will have the opportunity to explore life as a colonist in the years prior to the Revolutionary War, so that they may understand why the colonists finally decided to declare their independence.

Word Study:  Why do we use the prefixes un, mis, and im?

Writing:  How do writers narrate as a purpose for on-demand writing?

This week the kids will have the opportunity to send their completed narrative articles to Kentuckiana Kids newspaper for a possibility of publication.  We will also begin learning how to respond to on-demand prompts that ask writers to narrate as a purpose.