Important Dates:
February 29, 2008 -- End of Trimester
March 3, 2008 -- Casimir Pulaski Day -- No School
March 7, 2008 -- Too Good For Drugs Graduation @ 1:00
March 11, 2008 -- Report Cards
March 14, 2008 -- Parent/Teacher Conferences -- No School
March 21, 2008 -- No School
March 24, 2008 -- Spring Break Begins
March 31, 2008 -- Classes Resume
April 24, 2008 -- Early Dismissal
English
This week will be wrapping up with Unit 5, Capitalization and Punctuation. Our test on this chapter is scheduled for Tuesday, February 26th. After the test, students will have an opportunity to show what they have learned by filling in Garfield comic strips. Wednesday we will begin expository writing. Did you know that expository writing is almost any type of written language out there other than narrative (story). We will be evaluated on this type of writing on our ISAT Writing Test coming up in a few weeks.
Reading
The February book report is due this Friday, February 29th.
This week we will be typing our “Me Front Page” project. Many children have brought in their 8 x 10 picture and have started that part for the project. If you child has not brought in their picture they need to do this ASAP.
Also, this week we will be working in our ISAT book on plot, subplot, and setting. We will be completing another extended response to a story.
Math
We continue to learn new things in our geometry chapter. This week we will develop spatial reasoning abilities through problem solving. Next, we will classify triangles as equilateral, scalene, isosceles, right, acute, and obtuse. Then, we will find the sum of angles of a triangle. Ask your child what they learned about classifying quadrilaterals. Our checkpoint quiz will be on Thursday, February 28th on pgs. 268-269.
