Week of January 24th

Important Dates to Remember
* Library - every Tuesday
* Ident-a-kid - Tuesday, January 25
* Spirit Day - Friday, January 28
* Performance of Madeline and the Red Hat - Tuesday, February 1
* Grandparent's Day - Friday, February 4
* Picture Lady - Tuesday, February 8
* Spring Conference Day - Thursday, February 10 (times were sent out last week)
* Science Teach-In - Wednesday, February 16
* Professional Development Day - Friday, February 18
* Field Day - Friday, March 11

Here is our week at a glance. Current Events will begin again in February.

Parent Reader - J. Emerson

Language Arts - Lesson 17
* Phonics - short vowel e/ea
* Spelling - meadow, instead, breakfast, treasure, feather, meant, health, breath, ahead, lead, wealthy, heavy, sweating, question, against
* Reading - Annie's Gifts by Angela Shelf Medearls
* Robust Vocabulary - journeyed, frail, stomped, sipped, entertain, except, carefree, screeching, horrendous, melodious
* Grammar - Adjectives for Senses
* Writing Workshop - Small Moment - Editing/Proofreading
* Handwriting - Cursive using lower case letters

Mathematics - Unit 5 Review, Progress Check and Unit 6
Student will review the concepts taught in Unit 5 (3D and 2D Shapes) and do a written assessment to check their progress. Unit 6 will be introduced, so be on the lookout for the new Family Letter, that your child will bring home on Thursday in their homework folder. This new unit focuses on whole-number operations and number stories. Please continue helping your child practice ballpark estimates and the partial sums addition method.

Social Studies - Australia
We will continue learning about Australia and the students have a research assignment about Australian landmarks.
It is Australia Day on Wednesday (January 26th) which commemorates the arrival of the British colonists in Sydney Cove in 1788. So we will be doing some fun Australian activities, including learning Waltzing Matilda (a well-known Australian song).

Science - Rock Cycle
The students are really showing interest in learning about rocks and minerals and last Friday enjoyed a visit from Julia C. dad, who showed us his own rock collection (including an opal). The students are beginning to see the difference between igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and have been having a fun time trying to classify their class rock collection. We will continue with this investigation this week.