Week of 2/5/18

Report cards have been mailed out!  Please let me know if you would like to meet to conference about your child’s progress in class.  I am always available or you can email me at dexterl@dearbornschools.org.

PBIS Field Trip is on Monday!!  We are going to the Lincoln Park Skating Center, the cost is $8.

Here is what is happening this week in class:

ELA

  • Spelling words this week: dividend, environment, production, completion, television, adaptation, volcanic, composition, competition, metallic, definition, criminal, habit, admiration, instinct, flammable, provision, red herring, serenity, and revolution
  • Reading a narrative poem about Paul Revere and visualizing aspects of the American Revolution.
  • Word structure we will focus on homophones, irregular plurals, compound words and suffixes.
  • Grammar we will focus on prepositions and prepositional phrases.

Math

  • We will review adding and subtracting fractions.
  • Comparing fractions with same and different denominators and numerators.
  • We will review for the test.
  • Test will be give on Friday!

Science

  • Further discussing where water comes from.
  • Understanding how we can make rain.

Social Studies

  • Continue talking about the southern colonies and the development of the new world.
  • Demonstrating the Jamestown map with a following directions activity.

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