December 9, 2011

Thanks to everyone who donated to this year's food drive! We really appreciate your generosity.


Next week:
December 14-Division Test
December 16-Typed realistic fiction stories due

Math
This week, we continued to work on long division. Some students still need support and practice so please check in with your child. A good website for practice is ixl. I will attach a link to a page with a section on long division. We will be having a division test next Wednesday and we will review on Tuesday. We will do a short unit on graphing until the vacation.

Reading
We are working on book groups. Students did a great job on lesson 1 and they are working on lesson 2. Lesson 2 is due Wednesday. We are finishing up our fourth read aloud next week. We have also been working on writing strong summaries.

Writing
Students have all met with regarding their realistic fiction stories. They should all be typing at home. Stories need to be typed by next Friday, 12/16. We will have a writing celebration on December 23rd! Our next unit is persuasive writing.

Social Studies
We are continuing the Native American unit. We are studying the Iroquois. Next week, students will be working on a group project on one aspect of Iroquois life. Each student needs a poster board by Wednesday.

Have a great weekend! As always, feel free to contact me at mleach@bcsd.neric.org.