3rd Nine Weeks: Week 8

After a wonderful Winter Festival, we are busy learning a lot this week!

Reading: The students are continuing to read their biographies this week looking for characteristics, events that shaped that person's life, basic facts, a timeline and why that person is famous.  Later on in the week the children will be working on how to present their work to the rest of the class.  There are no new vocabulary words this week as we are still looking at the same words and how they relate to the people the students are reading about.

Spelling: All of the spelling words this week have suffixes of ness, ment, less and ful.

Language:  This week we are focusing on how and when to use a comma when a sentence contains conjunctions.  There will be a quiz on conjunctions on Wednesday.  The students have a review guide in their journal that they can study from.  They should be able to name conjunctions, identify conjunctions, identify when a sentence with a conjunction needs a comma and combine two short sentences with a conjunction.

Math: We are wrapping up our unit on data.  There will be a quiz on Wednesday.  The quiz will cover reading and creating different types of graphs as well as identifying the range, mode, median and mean of a set of data.  Your child has notes on this information in his/her notebook and there are also some study materials on Schoology.  There are two websites with games where they can practice some of their skills: http://kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/meanmedianmode.html and http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/data/  We will start fractions on Thursday!

Science: The students will be learning more about what is inside a battery and a light bulb, work on making complete circuits and identifying conductors and insulators.

Alabama History: We have completed our unit of Statehood and Settlement!  The children received a study guide today that we will go over tomorrow, but they should have all of the information in their notebooks.  The test will be on Thursday.  A copy of the study guide can be found on Schoology if it is needed.