Mrs. Jones's Class WebsiteDearborn Public Schools

Feb 10th Week of February 10-14

Due to the day off on Friday, we had our spelling test and reading test today, Monday. I am disappointed to inform you that 10 out of 24 students did NOT have their packet finished. Look for a note in the planner. The day off on Friday is NO excuse; in fact, it gave the students 3 extra days!!!!!

Upcoming Events:

WED.- LATE START 9:40

FRI.– Valentine Celebration-the committee has planned the food and activities. If your child would like to bring in food or valentines, they are welcome, but not expected.

Homework:

Spelling words- wreckage, disguises, column, chemical, foreign, secluded, arousing, behavior, author, purpose

Word Work: Goofy Spelling Story, Spelling Bee, Vowel Circle

Reading: Packet-Reading Strategy-Author’s Purpose and Grammar-subject pronoun and object pronoun

Science: Research how forces and motion are used in their assigned Olympic event.

Social Studies: Road to the Revolution

Math: Fractions

Feb 3rd February 3-7, 2014

Spelling: forgetting, expelling, transferring, equipping, regretting, velocity, inertia, acceleration, motion, balanced

Word Work: Spelling Code; Connect the Dots; Upper and Lower

Grammar: Pronouns

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize

Writing: Research a Winter Olympic event

Math: Journal p. 5.4

Science: Explore Activity: Does the amount of mass effect its motion?

Social Studies: French and Indian War

Jan 27th Week of January 27-31

Spelling Words: admitted, controlled, flagged, referred, tripped, staggered, defective, rotated, reversed, dangling

Word Work: Across and Down; Adding My Words; Trace A Shape

Reading Packet: Irregular Verbs, Drawing Conclusions

Science: Force Unit-Lesson 1 Outline Packet

Math: Journal p. 128

Social Studies: French and Indian War

Jan 14th Week of January 13-17

Welcome back and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! This week is a regular week, but next week has a lot going on:

Monday, January 20th – NO SCHOOL

Thursday, January 23rd – 1/2 Day for students

Friday, January 24th – NO SCHOOL for students

SPELLING: airproof, afternoon, lagoon, fireproofing, raccoon, gnarled, scrawny, parched, scorching, gushed-test Fri.

PACKET: vocab, linking verbs, quotation marks, compare/contrast-due Fri.-test

WRITER’S WKSHP: Opinion Papers and Diary of a…

SCIENCE: finishing up PwrPt projects, reviewing, district online test-this week

SOCIAL STUDIES: reviewing for district online test-next week

MATH: Fractions

Dec 16th Week of December 16-20

Since there was a building problem last Friday, we had our Spelling Test and Reading Test today…and my present to all is NO PACKET OR WORD WORK this week!!!!!

We are having our classroom WINTER FEST this Friday. Our committee is putting everything together, thank you!

Mystery Friday treat????

If interested, pack $$$ for Santa’s Workshop on Tues.

WRITER’S WORKSHOP: Diary of a… and Opinion Writing

MATH: Bellwork and TEST this Wed.

SOCIAL STUDIES: STUDY review sheet; TEST Tues.

SCIENCE: Research teams taking notes and creating Power Point.

Dec 9th Week of December 9-13

Spelling Words: cruel, novel, quarrel, fossil, nostril, humanity, inevitable, unheeded, enlightened, prevailing

Word Work: Pyramid Writing, Create An Activity, Colorful Words

Reading Strategy: Fact/Opinion

Grammar: Verbs/Helping Verbs

Writer’s Workshop: Diary of a …

Science: Astronomy-How do forces affect the position and motion of objects in the sky?

Dec 2nd Week of December 2-6

Tues. – Assembly 9:15

Homework:

Spelling Words: article, shuffle, vehicle, fragile, sterile, gravity, tide, constellation, revolve, rotate

Grammar: verb tenses (present, past, future)

Reading Strategy: Fact/Opinion

Word Work: Spelling Bee, Vowel Circle, Spelling Scramble

Science: We are starting our Astronomy Unit; Lesson 1 Outline

Math: Everyday Math Website-at least 20 minutes/day

Nov 25th Week of November 25 and 26

*Please, please, please look for the Everyday Math parent note with student username and password! (This is the second time they were printed up.)

There will be no Packet or Spelling/Word Work this week.

Writing: Diary of a …

Science: Steps of the scientific method wall for lower el.

Reading: Scholastic News- “Malala’s Dream”

Nov 20th Week of November 18-22

Thursday-Library

Friday-Band/Strings

Spelling-fountain, invoice, announcement, empower, voyage, colonization, settlement, migration, navigation, governor

Word Work– Connect the Dots, Upper and Lower, Goofy Spelling Story

Reading Packet: strategy skill-drawing conclusions/grammar-verbs and adverbs

Writer’s Wkshp-Diary of a….

Science: Constructed Response-Adaptations

Math: Bellwork, Measuring angles

Social Studies: Push/Pull Factors

Nov 11th Week of November 11-15

Wed.- Late Start @ 9:40

Thurs. – Brainstormers Assembley, LIBRARY, Conferences

Please return conference confirmation sheets if you have not done so.

Spelling: demonstration, vanishing, prevent, defending, protest, fossils, imprints, molds, preserved, petrified

Word Work: Trace A Shape, Fancy Letters, Spelling Code

Science: Fossils