Good afternoon Haigh families. This week is spirit week, so be sure to refer to your January calendar or the blog to dress and show some spirit this week!
Monday- PJ Day, no slippers please
Tuesday- Career day
Wednesday- Sport day, GO BLUE!
Thursday- CRAZY hair day
Friday- Haigh spirit wear day
Also just a reminder that we have a half day of school on Friday 1-26. Dismissal is at 11:45.
Last week we worked hard on reading and language NWEA. Students showed a lot of growth from fall to winter. This week we will be working on completing science and math.Please continue to encourage your child to do their personal best.
This week we will be finishing up our unit on cause and effect. We will be looking at cause and effect in nonfiction science and social studies articles.
Students will be taking their social studies test on Wednesday. Look for the study guide to go home tomorrow.
In writing this week we will focus on creating categories for all of the facts we collected about snow. We will begin to work on our blueprint graphic organizer to keep our ideas all in one organized place.
In science we finished up our storm spotter mystery last week and this week we will be learning about what makes a place so hot.
In math we will continue to learn about area as we progress to harder problems that require reasoning skills to explain how and why the answer is correct. Please make sure the student book is being sent back to school each night with homework completed.
Academic Vocabulary:
- Pioneer-A person who travels for a long time to settle in a new place.
- Sources- A document that provides information about a topic.
- Area- The amount of space on the INSIDE of a space.
- Predict-A statement about what or may happen in the future.
- Cause and Effect- what happened and why it happened.
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