Fifty-fifth Day

We had a quick lesson on Power Point today. I suggested for those kids that have flash drives to bring them in to make organization of computer work easier. If your child brings a flash drive in, it would be helpful to somehow ID the drive with your child's name either by writing on the drive or attaching it to a lanyard that can be written on.

We will be taking a brief Social Studies quiz tomorrow. We reviewed how life was different a long time ago, why home are different in other parts of the world, and what traditions we celebrate in the United States.

Unit 2 Week 4 Preview

Continuing our exploration of families and neighbors, we ask the question: what is a home? Our vocabulary words for the week are: collapse, company, construct, entire, and material. Our high-frequency focus words are: again, could, make, one, then, and three. For spelling we will focus on short-vowel 'u'. Our grammar rule will be proper nouns and capitalization.

Tuesday we will read our class president speeches and Wednesday we will vote. I will send home a copy of our voting ballot with those children making speeches. This is one of those documents you might consider scanning to your child's flash drive.

Last week, 22 of 24 students passed the district quarterly math exam. Two students passed with perfect scores.