Hello Everyone,

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. January Book Orders are due this week. Please make sure to send in the completed form, with cash only, if you and your student would like to order. We are starting a fresh marking period today. We are working up a few units and I will be talking about those in the subject section. A few parents have been asking about supplies needed for the second half of the school year. Each student and the class can use dry erase markers and sticky notes. Dollar Tree has a pretty good deal on sticky notes.

Reading:Students will be finishing Hatchet this week and they will be writing a short piece based upon the book. We working on cause and effect and theme. After we finish Hatchet, we will start looking at Mysteries.

Spelling: This week we are looking at words with silent letters. As always our words are uploaded onto Spellingcity.com for students to get extra practice. Our spelling words are disguises, column, chemical, foreign, wreckage, taxation, adaptation, independence, declaration, genetics.

Science:We are studying constellations and students will be creating their own constellation models. We will finish the unit this week and next week they will have their solar system unit test.

Writing: Most students are finished with their graphic novels. We are looking at using the RAN strategy to analyze and write nonfiction text. We will also be looking at the features of a mystery. Each student will be writing a mystery in the next few weeks.

Math: Our fraction unit is almost done. Today we will look at subtracting and adding mixed numbers, as well as multiplying and dividing fractions.

Have a great week.