Download Wish list items needed:

January 9th
Students should be reading
at home each evening for at
least 15 minutes to help
improve comprehension and
build vocabulary.
African American Biography
projects are due February 1st!
Students will each need a 4
ounce package of Terra
Cotta colored Model Magic
for our Greece unit.
https://www.michaels.com/c
rayola-model-magic4oz/M10602292.html
Wish list items needed:
Chocolate Lover’s 8 ½ “x
11” cardstock
Colored Pencils
Elmer’s Spray Adhesive
Glue
Reading- Students were introduced to problem & solution this week. They
worked on reading passages where they had to find the problem and discuss
possible solutions and vice versa. We also discussed nonfiction text features
which help students when reading passages. We will continue working on these
skills this upcoming week. Then we will begin our discussion of main idea and
details in fiction passages.
Writing- Students worked on their winter grams this past week and also
began their 100 year writing piece. This is just a fun writing we do to
celebrate the 100th day of school. We will begin our Snow Day writing piece
soon. The wish list items are needed to help complete this writing piece if
you are able to help out.
Math- My math group wrapped up our geometry unit this week. We discussed
plane versus solids shapes. We also talked about edges, vertices, and faces on solid
shapes. Students will have to identify each of these. Cones, cylinders, and spheres
have no straight lines, therefore, there are NO edges, faces, or vertices. The cube
and rectangular prism both have 6 faces, 12 edges, and 8 vertices. The square
pyramid has 5 faces, 8 edges, and 5 vertices. We also discussed the differences
between points, rays, lines, line segments, parallel lines, intersecting lines to include
perpendicular lines. (intersecting lines that create right angles. Finally we talked
about angles: right angles or 90 degree angles, acute angles or less than 90 degree
angles, and obtuse angles or greater than 90 degree angles. Students learned about
congruent and non-congruent figures and we discussed symmetry in shapes. Test
moved to Wednesday, due to holiday.
Science- We finished up our simple machines unit, and we will be working on
reviewing each machine next week. Test on Friday, January 20th.
January 18thGeometry Test (my group)
January 20thSimple Machines Test
January 26thSpelling Test
January 27thNo school- Teacher Workday
Reading- Problem & Solution, Non-fiction Text Features, Main Idea &
Details (fiction)
Spelling/Vocabulary- Spelling Test- January 26th
Writing- 100 Years
Grammar-Transition Words
Math- Fractions
Social Studies- Greece
Science- Simple Machines Test January 20th