“Guess Who’s Coming to Our History Dinner?” looks amazing as a display outside our classroom! We have gotten so many compliments. The class did a wonderful job thinking of questions to ask the famous African Americans and planning a terrific dinner menu to serve. Our next project will be combining two significant events in March – Women’s History Month and March Madness. Look for details coming up about the class studying the development of the WNBA and researching various colleges represented in the NCAA Tournament this month.
WEEK: March 2-6
SPELLING: colorful, weakness, movement, endless, truthful, illness, cheerful, useless, beautiful, restless, clumsiness, pavement, peaceful, fondness, neatness, speechless, statement, wasteful, penniless, treatment Challenge Words: numbness, ailment, resourceful, cleanliness, appointment
READING: Anchor text, “Harvesting Hope”; begin Sarah, Plain and Tall
GRAMMAR: clauses, relative pronouns, relative adverbs
WRITING: History of basketball
MATH: adding and subtracting mixed numbers
SOCIAL STUDIES: Women’s History project
SCIENCE: Waves of Sound unit; Lesson 1 Sound, Vibration, Engineering
RELIGION: daily devotions, lesson on honesty; Ephesians 1:25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor for we are all members of one body.
TESTS THIS WEEK:
- Thursday – Memory quiz
- Friday – Spelling, Reading, Grammar
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Read Across America Monday, 3/2: dress as a favorite book character, bring book to school for read aloud, visit book fair, bring stuffed animal/pillow.
- Our 7 Habits of Happy Kids continues this week with Habit #5, “Seek First to Understand, Then be Understood.”
This week’s prayer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB_H7LJsVcI