Weekly Newsletter
Mr. Marks’ Homeroom Class
4/22/08

Dear parents,
This week we will continue working on chapter 29. The students will be expected to add and subtract two digit numbers. We will also spend some time working on borrowing from the tens place value. All the students are doing well adding and subtracting two digit numbers.
We will begin our Social Studies unit on Historical Alabamians. This week we will focus on Rosa Parks and Daniel Pratt. The students will learn the different contributions these people made to Alabama as well as America. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.
Important Dates:
May 8th YMCA Field Trip




Weekly Newsletter
Mr. Marks’ Reading Class
4/22/08
Dear parents,

This week we are working on the story “Baboon”. The vocabulary words are disappear, ground, mouth, across, and shook. The spelling words are get, led, bread, head, ready, weather, feather, spread, thread, and sweater. The test will be Friday. We will be getting ready for our Dibels test on 5/2/08.
Our weekly skills are: short /e/ea, r-controlled ar, digraph /hw/wh, and inflections ed & ing. Our grammar skill is using went and go. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.


Thank You,
Rusty Marks