Room 7 Newsletter 2/5

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A look at our week…

Religion Chapter 20:  In the next chapter, students will learn about the season of Lent.  “Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart.”  Joel 2:12

4th Language Arts:  Next week’s…

• Target Vocabulary: social, exchanges, excess, reinforce, storage, transport chamber, scarce, obstacles, transfers
• Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes -able, -ible (suffixes that mean “can”)
• Comprehension Skill: Text and graphic features—examining how words and pictures help us understand ideas
• Comprehension Strategy: Question— asking questions before, during, and after reading
• Spelling Words:  turkey, lonely, colony, steady, hungry, valley, hockey, starry, melody, movie, duty, drowsy, chimney, plenty, daily, alley, fifty, empty, injury, prairie  (Homework assignment can be found here.)

5th Language Arts:  Next week’s…

• Target Vocabulary: social, exchanges, excess, reinforce, storage, transport chamber, scarce, obstacles, transfers
• Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes -able, -ible (suffixes that mean “can”)
• Comprehension Skill: Text and graphic features—examining how words and pictures help us understand ideas
• Comprehension Strategy: Question— asking questions before, during, and after reading
• Spelling Words:  actual, cruel, influence, diet, museum, casual, ruin, pioneer, trial, visual, realize, create, riot, genuine, area, annual, audio, dial, theater, patriot  (Homework assignment can be found here.)

4th Grade Math:  Students will learn…

• divisibility rules for 2, 3, 5, and 10
• to divide 2-digit and 3-digit dividends by 1-digit divisors to find 2-digit and 3-digit quotients with and without remainders

5th Grade Math:  Students will learn to…

• subtract fractions with unlike denominators that are not compatible
• subtract mixed numbers, renaming the minuends
• estimate sums and differences of mixed numbers

Science:  There will be a quiz on Unit B Chapter 4 this week.  We will begin Unit B Chapter 5 on The Solar System.

Social Studies:  We will begin Chapter 4 on European Settlements.  Students will describe the aims and accomplishments of English, French, and Dutch explorers.  We will also understand the significance of the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Upcoming Important Dates and Events (Tests are only added on a weekly basis and subject to change):

Saturday 2/6:  5pm Gala, See you there!~

Wednesday 2/10: 8am Ash Wednesday Mass, Science Unit B Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Quiz, 2:30pm Dismissal

Thursday 2/11:  9am Stations of the Cross in the Church

Friday 2/12:  L.A. and Spelling Lesson 3.14 Test, Religion Chapter 20 Test, Daddy Daughter Dance 5:30pm in the Hall

Monday 2/15:  No School

Wednesday 2/17: 8am Mass, 2:30pm Dismissal

Thursday 2/18:  9am Stations of the Cross in the Church

Friday 2/19:  12noon Dismissal