Weekly Update (3/28-4/1)

Math-

Lessons covered:

7.7 Estimating Costs

7.8 Extended Facts: Products of Tens

7.9 Exploring Ratios and Geometric Figures

7.10 Test Review

The math test will be Friday (4/1).

Language Arts- We will read some selections from the Voices reading series.

The vocabulary will come from Wordly Wise this week.

The vocabulary test will be Friday (4/1).

The spelling this week will be homographs syllables.

There will be a spelling test on Friday (4/1).

Science- We will continue the unit, Matter.

Social Studies- This week we will continue to work with our social studies text book, The History of US.

We will continue our study of individual tribes throughout North America, focusing on the Eastern Woodland and Iroquois tribes. In the following weeks, we will begin to study European exploration of North America, beginning with the Vikings.

Message from the PE department

Just a quick reminder for all, especially for the EC-Gr. 8 PE classes that'll be walking on the track during the day on Fri. March 25 for Relay For Life -- please make sure that all participants are wearing sunscreeen (and wearing hats, if possible). We're expecting another FL sunshine day.

We've been sharing sun safety messages in conjunction with our mission/education work for ACS and Relay For Life. We had a great response today to the sunscreen packets we provided to participants at the junior invitational track meet, but the demand wiped out the supply of sunscreen packets we had set aside for Friday. So please remind our students to come extra prepared.

Thanks. Let's Relay!

Weekly Update (3/21-3/25)

Math-

Lessons covered:

7.4 Number Models with Parentheses

7.5 Parentheses: Application

7.6 Extended Facts in Multiplication and Division

7.7 Estimating Costs

Language Arts- We will read some selections from the Voices reading series.

The vocabulary will come from Wordly Wise this week.

The vocabulary test will be next Friday (4/1).

I have added a great link to help students practice the weekly vocabulary words.

The spelling this week will be r-combination syllables.

Please visit www.spellingcity.com for some practice games with the spelling words.

There will be a spelling test on Friday (3/25).

Science- We will continue the unit, Matter.

Social Studies- This week we will continue to work with our social studies text book, The History of US.

We will continue our study of individual tribes throughout North America, focusing on the Eastern Woodland and Iroquois tribes.

Weekly Update (3/7-3/11)

Math-

We will begin unit 7, which focuses on multiplication.

Language Arts- We will read some selections from the Voices reading series.

The vocabulary will come from Wordly Wise this week.

The vocabulary test will be Friday (3/11).

I have added a great link to help students practice the weekly vocabulary words.

The spelling this week will be the suffixes "-ness" and "-ment."

Please visit www.spellingcity.com for some practice games with the spelling words.

There will be a spelling test on Friday (3/11).

Science- We will continue the unit, Matter.

Social Studies- This week we will continue to work with our social studies text book, The History of US.

We will continue our study of individual tribes throughout North America, focusing on the Mound Builders and Eastern Woodland tribes. We will also be following the Iditarod. Each student was assigned a musher and will be responsible for charting their progress throughout the race.

Here is a link to the race standings:

http://www.iditarod.com/race/race/currentstandings.html