Spring Conference

February 24th is the date for Spring parent conferences. The scheduled times are posted on the side of the blog. Please post a comment or email me (nealw@shorecrest.org) with your preferred time. I will do my best to accommodate everyone's schedule.

For Friday---Warm up to a good book!

On Friday, I would like to take a break from the regular reading time to "Warm Up to a Good Book." It is seldom that Florida provides the appropriate atmosphere to do this, so I thought I would take advantage of it.

Today in class, the children were asked to bring a book from home to read. It must be a book that will sustain their interest for at least a period of 20-30 minutes. Along with their book of choice, they are not only allowed to bring a thermos of either hot chocolate or cider, but they may wear jeans to school (students are still required to wear a uniform shirt--this is not another Spirit Day.)

I am not sure yet the exact time, but it will be some time in the morning so the thermos will remain warm. This should be great fun!

Happy New Year

I hope that everyone had a nice, relaxing winter break, and is ready to get back into the routine.

Here is the outline for the week:

Math-

5.1 "Place Value through Ten-Thousands"

5.2 "Reading, Writing, and Ordering Numbers"

5.3 "Place Value to MIllions"

5.4 "Application: Using the U.S. Census to compare large numbers"

Language Arts- We will begin reading another class novel, 7x9=Trouble. We will work on Lesson 6 in "Wordly Wise." Vocabulary and Spelling Tests on Friday (1/8).

Science- We will finish Simple Machines and begin Compound Machines.

Social Studies- We will begin our Social Studies text book, A History of US.

As always, if you have any questions, please email me... Welcome Back!