Week of March 28

Calendar:
Tuesday, March 29, 7:30-8:00 Morning Math in Miss Stark's Classroom

Friday. April 1- Eucharist Chapel for 3rd-8th grade

Friday, April 1 - Spelling Test and Wordly Wise Test

Friday, April 1 – Math Test over Fractions

Saturday, April 2, 6:00 – School Auction, InterContinental Hotel

Monday, April 4, 7:30-8:00 – In Harmony Choir, South Music Room
Tuesday, April 5, 7:30-8:00 Morning Math in Miss Stark's Classroom

Monday, April 11-Thursday, April 14 - Standardized Testing

Homework:

Monday: Read, Study Math facts using Reflex Math, study spelling words and meanings

Tuesday: Read, Study Math facts using Reflex Math, study spelling words and meanings

Wednesday: Read, Study Math facts using Reflex Math,  study spelling words and meanings

Thursday: Read, Study Math facts using Reflex Math,  study spelling words and meanings

Friday: Enjoy your weekend

Language Arts:

Students continue to work on grammar skills.  We continue our work on skills that will be assessed on the standardized test in April.  Students will work on practice worksheets that test student knowledge of analogies, comprehension, vocabulary, mathematics, writing concepts, and quantitative reasoning. 

This week students will continue work on lesson 11 of Wordly Wise and will test over these words on Friday.
Students will begin talking about, then writing  a demonstration speech. These demonstrations will happen later in April. More information to follow.

Reading:

Miss Stark's class will continue reading “The Whipping Boy.” This book is a Newbery Medal-winner.  This funny story takes readers through the adventures of two boys after they run away from home.  The boys are from different social classes. One is kind and respectful while the other is disobedient and plays naughty tricks.  They do not have much in common and do not get along.  However, once out in the wild they are kidnapped by two scoundrels and must learn to work together to outwit the captors.  Throughout this story, the author reminds the reader of important life lessons. Fairness, respect, trust, heroism, courage, generosity, and kindness are all themes featured in this story. The author also sends a strong message of the importance of getting an education and paying attention in school. Perhaps the main theme of the story, though, is friendship, as the prince and the whipping boy overcome their many differences and discover that they actually like each other as people.
Mrs. Thompson's class will continue reading Roald Dahl's "George's Marvelous Medicine". This is an amusing book about a less than adorable grandma whom George tries to "fix". Students will complete comprehension questions, add to their vocabulary, consider setting, learn about character development and character comparisons, develop understanding of alliteration, and make a comic strip. The themes are relationships, family dynamics, and fixing wrongs.

Math:

This week students will wrap up our fraction unit.  Monday –Thursday we will work on comparing fractions with same and different denominators and find equivalent fractions.  Wednesday we will work on reviewing for the math standardized test portion and Friday students will take their test over fractions.

Science:

On Monday students will make a model of The Big Dipper, then we move on to study the solar system.

Social Studies:

We will begin learning about the three forms of government this week.

Wordly Wise Lesson 11:

diagram

frustrate

graduate

prank

primary

risk

stress

urge

vacant

vigorous

http://www.wordlywise3000.com/word_lists/?book=03&lesson=11

https://quizlet.com/198735/wordly-wise-book-3-lesson-11-flash-cards/