English- 

Grammar:

We will be working on adjectives and paragraph editing this week. Students will be working through a paragraph editing packet that will be taken for a daily grade and sent home Friday.

Writing:

This week, we will continue drafting our third personal narrative!

Spelling-

We will be working through our week 17 spelling words this week. The spelling packet will be due Friday for a daily grade. We will also have a spelling quiz Friday.

Here are our spelling words for this week:

cookie honey keychain valley police   volleyball

skiing turkey goalie machine niece

belief brief believe achieve relief

Review words:

wonder

double

Challenge words:

recipe

spaghetti

Reading -

 We will continue our novel study over The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane on Monday. 

We will have a test over Chapters 1-12 on Thursday!

A test review will be sent home Tuesday.

Students are continuing to work on endurance during independent reading time. Students will "stop & jot" their thoughts about their books as well as specific prompts from the teacher. 

⭐ We are accepting lightly used chapter books for the classroom library! 

If you have any books that your child has already read just sitting around the house, we will gladly take them! 

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Novel Studies:

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane  By Kate DiCamillo <-- Please have this book in class January 8th. 

ISBN 10: 0763647837    ISBN 13: 9780763647834

• Bud, Not Buddy By Christopher Paul Curtis 

          ISBN 10: 0440413281           ISBN 13: 9780440413288

**Please purchase the paperback version of each book. It is challenging to have class discussions with different page numbers. These books will belong to the student. Click on the Amazon links above. Please do NOT have your student read ahead.**

Cursive-

The students will be practicing letters in class everyday.  

Math- Fractions

LINKS of Videos Below:

Equivalent Fractions without Models

Simplifying Fractions

Fractions on a Numberline 

Equivalent Fractions on a Numberline

OLD SCHOOL DIVISION VIDEO LINK      NEW WAY DIVISION VIDEO LINK

VIDEO OF ALL THE STEPS WITH DIVISION

Math Practice: Please study these songs to practice your math facts. These are the songs we use in class.

• Skip Counting Videos (Click Here)

• Free multiplication Games (Click here)

• Prodigygame.com (Click here)

Bible 

Paul and the Bereans

Memory Verse: "The mind of the discerning acquires knowledge and the ear of the wise seek it." Proverbs 18:15

Bible Memory Test: Wednesday,Jan 28th

Chapel Leaders:

Stanley HR - Weston

Bielamowicz HR - Evie

Doiron HR - Steel

*Fill in the blank, with a word bank* 

Blooket Review for Bible TEST Friday, Feb.6th  Link coming soon

Deep Roots Student Login - Students can use this link and their Deep Roots logins to access the Unit we are studying or to access content for makeup work. Students have log in information in their planners. 

Science 

Student will be learning about the moon phases and the water cycle.

This week we doing our project on the moon phases and starting the water cycle.

We will be doing a in class project base assessment for the moon phase.  Blooket: Moon Phases Link 

Texas History

Monday-Settlements in Texas/Immigrants Flock to Texas

Tuesday-Meusebach-Comanche Treaty/Economy of Early Texas

Wednesday - Clash of Cultures/Techology Changes in Texas

Thursday -  Review Blooket 14-16

Friday - Test

Election process continues: This weekend please have your child pick a law, consequence, and Bible verse for their poster. They will be given a poster Board Tues., Jan.20th. There name, slogan, Law, and Bible verse should be on the poster. It can be decorated how they want. Have them work on a speech to give to the students in their class. I am giving kids until the Jan. 20th thru Jan. 25th to complete these items. We will do elections the last week in January. I am looking at Jan. 27th for block elections and Jan. 30th for class wide election. Please think about a small inexpensive item to bring when they do there speech. Example a piece of Extra gum. Vote for me I'll go the EXTRA mile for you.

This Test will be over Lessons 14-16. We will be reviewing every lesson as we go. A Blooket will also be available for each lesson and a lesson review test for the three lessons combine. Jan, 30th is the test over Units  14-16

Blooket Link:   Unit 14-15: LINK  Unit 14-16 LINK 

Texas Studies Weekly Login - Students have log in information in their planners for Texas Studies Weekly to review at anytime or to complete make up work if they do not have their newspapers with them.