Spelling words (/oi/ and /oy/ sounds):  annoy, royal, joint, boy, appoint

Academic words:  paragraph, purpose, array, pitch, culture

The Unit 4 Math Test that we took last Friday is coming home today.  Please go over the test with your child at home.  Discuss any mistakes that your child made, and talk about how they can do better on the next test.

We started our 3 minute multiplication tests today.  Students will have 3 minutes to solve 30 multiplication problems.  We start with multiplying factors of 0 and 1.  If a child gets all 30 problems correct, he/she moves on to factors of 2.  If a child gets even one problem wrong, he/she will have to take the test over again the next day.  The majority of the class passed their 0’s and 1’s today and will move onto 2’s tomorrow.  Those that did not pass usually made careless mistakes and did not go back to check their work.

The quiz on the British in the Great Lakes Region is tomorrow (Tuesday).  A study guide was sent home last Friday along with students’ S.S. notebooks to help them study.

Reminder that there is no school next Monday, January 18th due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.