MATH:  Volume 2, Unit 3

“Geometry & Measurement”      
In this unit students will investigate, describe, compare, and contrast both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes.  As you probably saw at Family Math & Science night, your students have learned how to find the area of paralellograms AND triangles!  It’s tricky and ‘fancy’ – just ask them.
                                                

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Native Americans

Native Americans of the Northwest continue.
Which tribe is your student researching?  Our poster portion of the unit should be finished next week.

Coming up in SCIENCE: 
Sun, Moon and Stars, starting with the phases of the moon.

WRITING:  Imaginative Narratives

This weeks lessons included exaggerated stories!  It started with my burnt bagel, and then….

LITERACY:  Unit 4 Inventors & Artists   Week 1: Westfalia
“What do people gain from the work of inventors and artists?”
Genre: Fiction   Skill: Draw conclusions   Strategy: Answer questions
                          


ART:  Happy Chinese New Year! 






                            

And…..

CONTINUING:  Multiplication fact tests 0-12
Help your students study up to their twelve’s.

NEXT WEEK:  No school on Friday. Teacher planning day/end of quarter = report cards