Language Arts:

·        This week’s comprehension skills will be summarizing and identifying fantasy & reality.  We are still working on the story Wolf from our textbooks and the bi weekly assessment will be next week.

·        We will also focus on writing skills this week.  The students will be writing super sentences and friendly (formal) letters.  All letters are expected to be set up correctly and five to seven (super) sentences long.  Friday they will write me a letter about their New Years resolution for a grammar grade.  Also, for the rest of the year, they are expected to write in cursive only.

·        We will not have a spelling list or test this week, however, the students will be graded on spelling throughout the week in their writing.  If needed, they may use dictionaries to assist them and ask for help.  I will be assessing their spelling in their TTQA answers on tests and super sentences and friendly letters.

·        This month’s book report will be on one of the books we purchased from the book store in Salem, NH.  It is called: I Once Knew a Spider; the book and form will be sent home by the end of the week.

·        Grammar: “You understood” and preposition review.  Big grammar test this Wednesday.

Social Studies:

·        Great Plains Native Americans lesson, beginning on page 176.  Quiz this Friday (maybe)

·        Next – How Native Americans keep their traditions alive today and the end of chapter seven.  A big Native American assessment will be given the week of January 18^th.  You can start reviewing key terms now and rereading chapter seven to be ready for this test.

Religion:

·        Chapter seven – Jesus teaches us to love and care.  Family Times due Friday and open book test will also be on Friday

Math: 

·        Reading a thermometer to the nearest degree Fahrenheit, estimating temperature and identifying the freezing & boiling points water & body temperature

·        Using comparison symbols (>, < and =)

·        Identifying horizontal, vertical and oblique lines and line segments

·        Finding a perimeter

·        Subtraction Facts: subtracting from 10 and Multiplication facts – 3s and 7s.

·        Making an organized list to solve a problem

Science

·        Chapter two, lesson three – animal life cycles.  We will present our life cycle posters in class this week and students will be quizzed on the presentations of their classmates.  Thursday there will be a quiz on lesson three in chapter two.