January 30 - February 3

Welcome to another gorgeous week of "winter" weather!!

We will be working VERY hard as we enter into the month of February. As you know the International Festival is February 23rd, so the students will continue getting ready for that big event. The Valentine's Party this year is actually on February 14th. We also, have student-led conferences coming up on the 15th and 16th. And, we will end the month with our Reading State Assessments. Phew!! There is a lot to do this month!!

Reading
We will continue with Theme 8. Our strategy focus is still determining important information. We will take a theme test on Friday.

We are still using our small group time to practice strategies to help them take their reading state assessments.

Spelling
Our Rigby pattern will focus on word endings: -s, -ed, and -ing.  Our words are smiling, radios, jumped, pages, buzzes, grabbed, pushing, roasted, keys, patches, exploring, addresses, fall, close & blue.
Our prefix pattern is: circ-, circum-, which means round or around.  Our words are circumnavigate, circumvent, circumrotate, circle, circulate, circumference, circuit, circumspect, circlet & circumflex.

Writing
Along with typing their reports, the students will learn how to write a bibliography for their reports.
In grammar, we will focus on singular and plural possessive nouns.

Math
Division!! The students are very excited to finally be learning about division. During Topic 7 the students will learn that divison is the operation used to find how many equal groups or how many are in each group.

Social Studies
Students will continue working on their cultural research report. Thank you for spending your time editing them this weekend. That will help our class time focus on typing the reports in a word document.