I hope you all were able to enjoy your Thanksgiving Break. I know I did. It was restful and refreshing!
As we come nearer to the end of the 2nd quarter, I want to encourage your child to finish strong. Our curriculum continues to be challenging and I hope to instill confidence in your child as they realize how much they can learn by perseverance and hard work.
Important Dates:
- Winter Break starts on Thursday, December 21st. The 3rd quarter starts on Monday, January 8th.
- Parent/Teacher Conferences for 2nd quarter are January 4-5 (Thursday and Friday). There will be a sign-up for this in the coming weeks.
Academics this week:
This week, we will be focusing on finding the main idea and supporting details of certain passages in ELA. We will continue classifying and diagramming sentences, adding a subject pronoun. Toward the end of the week, we will start character analysis in Robin Hood in preparation for comparing and contrasting characters the following week.
Please continue to encourage your child to keep memorizing Paul Revere's Ride. Many are doing a great job but some are falling behind. Help them to memorize a bit at a time so they can achieve success and then realize they can tackle more.
This week in math, we will wrap up our unit on the operations of fractions. We will spend one more day practicing word problems, then review for our math test, which will be on Thursday (Nov. 30). On Friday, we will start a new unit about measurement.
In science, we will continue to learn about solar radiation. We will begin learning about extreme weather like hurricanes and tornadoes. There will be a quiz on the atmosphere and solar radiation on Thursday.
This week in history we will continue our study of the Middle Ages. We will explore topics including Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Magna Carta, the Hundred Years War and also the changes in European government during this time.
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Thank you so much for bringing in so many tissues. We should have enough to get us through the end of the quarter : )
Thank you also for entrusting your child's education with me. It is a great responsibility but also a great blessing,
Mrs. Gore
