Week of February 5th

Ms. Summers' Classes

Math: 

We will continue our Measurement unit with more conversion work.  Students are working on converting units of capacity, time as well as metric conversions.  Students will also continue working on understanding volume and determining volume. New information will always be available in Math Notebooks. Homework is due Friday.

**Math homework will be given Monday to be turned in on Friday.  This is taken as a grade if completed, so please use the homework to review concepts with your child.  Xtramath can also be used to increase math fluency.

Did you know:  The homework is a great way to see what we are doing in class.  The Khan Academy link on the blog has tutorial videos that can help you, the parent, as well as your child practice the strategies we teach in class.  Edmodo is also a good resource for tutorial videos and practice games.

ELA: 

We will review figurative language.  There will be no Mentor Text.

Our Affixes of the Week are "circu", "equ/eqi", "ess".
Our vocabulary words for the week are: personification, simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, proverb and adage, onomatopoeia, and alliteration.

Please utilize Edmodo for games and tutorial videos at home.

Ms. Palmer's Classes

Math: 
We will continue our measurement unit! We will be focusing on conversions. Students will be practicing converting units of time, capacity and metric units. New information will always be available in Math Notebooks. 

Helpful videos:
Converting measurement with the power of 10
Finding the Volume of Rectangular Prisms and Cubes


Homework will be given on Mondays and will be collected on Friday mornings. Home will be taken for a weekly participation grade. Please have students log on to xtramath.org in their spare time, to help with basic fact fluency. Also, tenmarks.com is an awesome resource for students to practice concepts taught in class. Students have login information in their agendas.

Writing: 
We will be working on our Famous African-American research papers this week during class. They may continue researching at home if they didn't get to finish during class.

Mrs. Anderson's Classes

Math:
We will begin our Measurement unit.  Students will be working on understanding volume and determining volume. New information will always be available in Math Notebooks. Homework is due Friday.

Please have your child to practice math using the websites TenMarks.com and educationgalaxy.com .  TenMarks login information for parents will be sent home Monday.  Please don't forget to ask your child for this very important document. 

Websites:  Khanacademy.org, studyjams.scholastic.com, funbrain.com, IXL.com


Science: 
Please have your child review his or her Science Notebook.  Also, students should be working on the review packet given to them at school.  It will give them a refresher of the concepts we have covered before we move on to any new material.  Grades will come from the work and effort put in to these packets so please remind them to take it seriously.

Interactive Website for Classification: 
 studyjams.scholastic.com,  sheppardsoftware.com

Ms. Hill's Class

Math- 
We will begin our Measurement unit.  Students will be working on understanding volume and determining volume. New information will always be available in Math Notebooks. Homework is due Friday.

Social Studies-
We will continue to focus on a Changing Nation. This week your child will focus on famous inventors, scientist, and other notable key figures. Students are in need of more glue sticks, color pencils or crayons. These items are used almost daily to complete interactive notebooks. Key historical figures : The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, & Alexander Graham Bell. 

Mrs. Griggs' Classes

Math- 
We will begin our Measurement unit.  Students will be working on understanding volume and determining volume. New information will always be available in Math Notebooks. Homework is due Friday.

Reading- 
In reading this week we will focus on informational text. Our new extended text is The Watsons go to Birmingham.  Thank you to all of the families that came out to support the students when we gathered at Arbor Place Cinema to see Wonder.