Language Arts- Last week our Essential question was, How can one person change the way you think?  We read 2 stories that were historical fiction and talked about how one person can inspire us to do better.  We read about a little girl that didn't want to learn to read until she met Abe Lincoln and the a boy that was not aloud in the library, because of his race, until a librarian snuck him in.  We worked on cause and effect, idioms, and visualizing the stories.  We also have been working on present-tense verbs and writing an opinion letter.

This week our Essential Question is, What do we know about Earth and its neighbors? This week we are reading 2 stories and will answer this essential question.  We are also focusing on summarizing, main and key details, and context clues within a text.  Our spelling words this week are r-controlled words again and we are focusing on past-tense verbs

Math- This week we will wrap up Topic 8, on using strategies and Properties to add and subtract .   Our test for this topic will be this Thursday and the homework review will be due that day as well.  We will be skipping a couple of the sections since they are review. 

 

Social Studies-Our students have been going to Mr. Provenza's class for Social Studies for the past 5 weeks and this is the last week.  During the six weeks with him they have learned about the history of Avon Lake.

 

Friday marks the end of the 2nd quarter and with the beginning of the 3rd quarter we will now be taking the weekly reading assessments for grades.  If you recall at the beginning of the year the tests were more for practice and since our scores have improved a lot I feel they are ready to have them count for a grade. 

 

There is no school this Friday because of the district-wide teacher in-service day.   

 

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