Week of 2-3-2020

Assalamu alikum,

Here is what we are up to this week.

English-Language Arts
We are continuing our historical fiction novels in reading. We will begin drafting our science fair 5-paragraph essays now that we are wrapping up our research. In the next week or so, we will begin story planning for YAC. Please see the letter from the YAC committee stapled into your child's planner. This Friday is the due date for the money for the Barebooks.

Math
Tigers and Lions and working steadily towards larger digit dividend division using place value charts and the standard algorithm. Pistons are now working on the partial product method for 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication.

Science
We are wrapping up gathering data and have already begun typing the information and titles for the science fair board. Some students will finish gathering their data this week while most students complete the first draft of the science fair board parts. Reminder that science fair is an in-class activity. One thing students can do at home is begin finding clip art, letters, etc. to go on the boards. I will send an e-mail later this week with information about science fair boards.

Social Studies
We are beginning our unit on the US regions. We will start with our current region, the Midwest. Students will use videos, books, informational texts, and their Studies Weekly Newspaper. Students will begin memorizing the 12 states that make up the Midwest. They will have a test next Monday to locate and label the 12 states in the region.

Please make sure to check the planners daily as I often staple notices (like Friday's YAC letter) into them for you to see.

Jazak Allah Khayr,
Sister Patti Picard