There will be a quiz on food chains Thursday, November 14th and Friday,November 15th.

We will continue to work on food chains and food webs.

This week:

1. Monday: Review “The School Play”

2. No School

3. Wednesday: Test on “The School Play”

4. Thursday: Compare and contrast texts and work on animal reports.

This week the students will continue working on food chains and food webs.

Please review the following vocabulary words:

biotic, abiotic, organism, population, ecosystem, biosphere, and community.

Reminder there is no school on Tuesday 11/5.

This week will take a survey on facing your fears. We will also start reading “The School Play” which is in the language arts text book.

This week we will be starting on chapter 1 section 2 Living Things Need Energy.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent teacher conferences are Monday 10/28/13 4:30 – 7:30 and Wednesday 10/30/13 3:15-6:15. Parents and teachers will conference for five minutes only. I will be with Mrs. Poission for most of the conferencing time, but I will also be in Mrs. Uetz room as well. If you would like to schedule a longer conference with me I can be available if a more extensive conference is needed just email me at thompst1@dearbornschools.org or call me 313-827-7521.

Sorry for the short notice.

Ms. Thompson

This week we will be working on

• foreshadowing/flashbacks
• reviewing text features
• author’s purpose

This is the first week of the second card marking.

Reminder no school 10/14 through 10/16

This week we will be starting “Living Things Need Energy” (Chapter 2.1 in the Environmental Science text book).

This week is the first week of the second card marking.

Remember no school on 10/14 through 10/16

Parents, we will be

1. summarizing non fictional text
2. comparing and contrasting stories
3. writing personal narratives (focusing on the theme)

Parents, this week we will be continuing with the levels of organizations. We will also be doing class presentations “all about me.” We started some, but didn’t finish them yet.