LANGUAGE ARTS: This week we read an informational text called Who Are Government's Leaders and watched/discussed a video called Thomas Edison and the Light Bulb. We worked on skills such as identifying homophones (words that sound the same, but they're not spelled the same and do not mean the same such as "sea" and "see,") decoding words with the suffixes "ful" and "less," writing abbreviations for months, days, places, and titles for people correctly, identifying nouns that name people, using story vocabulary in context, and learning ten new high-frequency words.
MATH: This week we took the chapter 7 test and started chapter 8 over money and time. So far students have found the total values of collections of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, and solved problems with coins.
GUIDANCE: On January 16 we will discuss lesson 2 in guidance class. Lesson 2 is called "Rules and Choices." In this lesson we will explain how good rules keep people safe. We will also identify reasons for good rules.
HANDWRITING: This week students practiced writing the lowercase cursive w, e, l, and b.
SCIENCE: We have been discussing various water habitats such as a pond, river delta, and tide pool. Students compared the diversity of life in each one and discussed how plants and animals meet their needs in the water habitat in which they live.
TALENT SHOW: There will be an all-school talent show on Thursday, January 29 during Catholic Schools Week. If your child has a talent he/she would like to share, please encourage him/her to participate! Students can show their act to the talent show committee members through next week. This way we know ahead of time what talent your child will be performing so the talent show program can be put together. We're hoping to get a record number of participants this year!
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