“A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
Important Information
We are singing in church on Sunday, January 28 at the 9:00 service.. Students should be dressed in their school uniform and meet Mr DeVries in the music room at 8:40. During practice, they sounded lovely.
The last days of January and the beginning of February are a good time to make sure that students still have all their supplies. It is also a time to remember that chromebooks need to come to school fully charged each day.
Some students are forgetting to bring their instruments to school for band and instrument lessons. Mr. Stainkamp emails the band schedule to all student on Friday for the following week. Please make sure that your child brings his/her instrument to school for both the lesson and band rehearsal. Should you have any questions, please contact Ms. Philbin or Mr. Stainkamp.
Academics
Math: We have started Module 9 in Math. It focuses on addition and subtraction strategies.
ELA: For Unit 3, Week 5 our essential question is “How is each event in history unique?” The following is a list of everything we will be covering in ELA, including our vocabulary and spelling words. We will also be covering opinion writing.
- Genre: Expository Text
- Shared Reading: Moving America Forward
- Anchor Text: Birth of an Anthem
- Paired Selection: Discovering life Long Ago
- Summarize
- Timelines and Captions
- Text Structure: Chronology
- Author’s Purpose
- Vocabulary Words
- agreeable
- appreciate
- boomed
- descendants
- population
- resources
- transportation
- vehicles
- Suffixes: -able, -ful, and -less
- Week 5 Spelling Words
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- Diphthongs /oi/ and /ou/
- Structural Analysis: Prefixes: un-, non-, dis
- foil
- coins
- noise
- point
- enjoy
- joyful
- down
- owl
- crowd
- plow
- round
- couch
- proud
- bounce
- loudly
- misprint
- prepaid
- discount
- choice
- snowplow
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Social Studies: We are still learning about the three branches of government. This week we will focus on our national leaders and then we will begin to learn specifics about each branch of the government, starting with the legislative branch.
Science: We are beginning our unit on life cycles.
TEST and QUIZZES
Tuesday Reading Test on Last Week’s story
Friday: Spelling Test
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]