Sunday, March 20, 2011

Centers

Quotation Marks game http://www.quia.com/rr/335442.html?AP_rand=666450941

Quotation Marks http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/quotation_marks/quiz1632.html

Kevin Henkes' website http://www.kevinhenkes.com/young.asp

Storyline http://storylineonline.net/

March 21-25

Math-This week we are beginning a new unit in math. We will be learning about fractions! Have your child look for fractions in real world situations.

Social Studies-This week we will learn about different government leaders and their responsibilities.
Barack Obama-president of the United States
Nathan Deal-governor of Georgia
Eva Galambos-mayor of Sandy Springs

LA-This week we will learn how to use quotation marks properly in our writing to show dialogue. We will also review writing a summary on a book we have read.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

March 7-11

Coming this week...

Math-We are working on division this week! The students are doing a great job with this unit and working very hard. We have done some fun activities, ask your child about them.

Science-We will being a new science unit this week. Our unit will focus on pushes and pulls. We will learn about simple machines.

LA-This week we will review friendly letters and take a test on the parts of a letter. We will also begin our writing performance assessment. The students will go through the writing process over the next two weeks to produce a final persuasive writing piece.