3rd Nine Weeks: Week 10 (Last Week)

Spring seems to have finally arrived!  I hope that you and your family were able to spend sometime outdoors this weekend enjoying the sunshine.

The field trip is this Wednesday!  We will be traveling to Huntsville by way of Homewood City Schools buses.  We expect to leave soon after 8, so please ensure your child is here on time, and we expect to return before 3 pm.  Don't forget to send a sack lunch with your child if you signed up for your child to bring his/her own lunch.  Disposable lunch bags are best for field trips if at all possible.

Reading - This week, while learning about story elements such as plot, character development and setting, the children will be reading stories about the Civil War, enhancing their Alabama History study.  The vocabulary words for the week are: plot, conflict, climax, resolution and militia.  We will spend a little bit of time on the students' biography webpages in the morning, but they are due tomorrow (Tuesday).

Spelling - This week's spelling words have a VCV pattern such as polite, siren and habit.

Language - The students are learning more about how to punctuate quotation marks as well as continuing to work on the comma rules.  Expect a test later this week, most likely on Friday.

Math - Fractions continue to be the focus in math and we will continue to deepen our understanding of fractions as we move into more difficult fraction concepts like comparing fractions with unlike denominators, adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators and even mixed numbers (a whole number and a fraction).

Alabama History - Students are learning about why the South seceded, the differences between the North and the South, and the beginning of the Civil War.  No doubt our field trip on Wednesday will help them to understand what they are learning about, but also pique their curiosity to learn even more!

Science - We are completing our study of electricity this week by creating our very own flashlights!  We will also have an electricity test late this week before beginning our study on static electricity and magnetism.