Download Classroom News January 11

Hines, Jones, and Vanover
Math next week will be moving
text/topic:
Finish up Rosa parks article (NF)
into division. We will be taking it
slow so don’t panic yet! The
students will be learning new
Focus Skill/stragegy:
Finish up Reasons & evidence(RI 4.8)
strategies that we didn’t use in
school. You are welcome to
Google partial quotient division for
Academic vocabulary:
Defiance, boycott, segregate,
integrate
videos to get an idea of what
we will be looking at.
We will still be working on
multiplication so keep practicing
those facts!
This week we will
continue to learn about
events that lead up to
the American civil war.
We will also be learning
about civil rights leader
Martin Luther king, jr.
• We will be finishing up the
Water cycle just in time
for WATER fest on Friday,
1/15! (yay!!).
• We will be deepening our
knowledge of evaporation,
condensation, and
precipitation!
Reading – our first 1 page reading response letter due 1/15/16 and Any
unfinished journal entries.
We will also have a test on ri 4.8 (reasons
&evidence)
Math – math review quiz this week
Science – water cycle quiz on Thursday, 1/14/16
Mrs. S. Jones
Upcoming events:
+ Please make sure you
are reading at least 20
minutes each night and
working on your 1
page letter about your
reading each day so
you won’t feel
overwhelmed as these
will be due at the end
of every week!
• We still want to meet with
everyone for a conference.
Please let us know if you
haven’t been in yet and we’ll
set up a time. .
• MY Homeroom only!
• Please bring in a new writing
and grammar composition
notebooks
ASAP as we have already
started entries in them.
Language and
writing:
+ Grammar focus:
+ Greek & Latin roots
+ Part of speech:
+ Vivid verbs (continued)
1/12 Rafael
+ Genre of the month:
+ narratives
Bring in those new journals ASAP!
Reading response letters are due Every Friday!