January 31st, 2008
Class activities for Thursday, January 31
Spelling: Today we reviewed suffixes by removing suffixes from base words. We will have a spelling test tomorrow and suffixes will be the skill assessed.
Cursive: Cursive pages 59-61 are available and due Friday.
Reading: Students practiced today reading their picture books selected from class or brought from home. Students will read the books to Children’s Garden students starting tomorrow and continuing into next week. Homework is to read the picture book twice to someone at home, focusing on good fluency, voice and expression.
Writing: None today due to the Career Fair.
Students should be revising at this point. The next piece of writing is due February 8. This piece should be some type of fiction not including any student from our class as a character.
Math: None today due to the Career Fair.
Science: None today due to library.
Social Studies: Students completed a test today over these concepts:
- Michigan’s land
- Great Lakes
- glaciers
- weather and climate
- features of the upper and lower peninsula
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Current Hours with No Orange Magnets: 0
Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet.
Notes:
- View grades, assignments, attendance and even the report card at SnapGrades.
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- This week’s juice volunteers: thanks to responsible and generous families, we have a juice backlog, so no juice volunteers needed for a few weeks!
