Week of February 18th

Important Dates:

February 18, 2008 -- President's Day - No School
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 10-14, 2008 -- Parent/Teacher Conference Week
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 are continuing on in Unit 5, Capitalization and Punctuation. We will identify and correctly punctuate interjections. Next, we will punctuate and capitalize direct quotations in a sentence. Then we will write in book, movie, newspaper, magazine, and poem titles correctly. Finally, we will write and punctuate abbreviations correctly. We will be filling in our own version of Garfield comics as a fun way to show our knowledge learned. Our test on this chapter is scheduled for Wednesday, February 27th.

Reading
Your child should have picked their new book for February. They should be reading a genre they have not chosen so far this year. The February book report is due on the last day of the month – Friday, February 29th.






Math
Last week we began with the first lesson in Chapter 7 on Geometry. This week we will identify basic geometric figures. Next, we will classify angles as right, obtuse, and acute. Ask your child what they learned about measuring and drawing angles with a protractor. Finally, we will identify polygons that are common shapes that we see every day.