SPELLING WORDS FOR 1/24-1/28: Focus: Prefixes & Suffixes

misuse, rethink, uncover, joyful, harmless, quickly, nonstop, kindness, enjoyment, unlock, rewind, disregard, biggest,larger, misplace

READING VOCABULARY FOR 1/24-1/28:

No reading vocabulary this week

WHAT WE ARE DOING THIS WEEK:1/24-1/28

Reading Focus: Affixes/Reading Application/ Literacy Analysis on Fiction articles. 

Language Arts/Writing: Students will be identifying the prefixes and suffixes of given words to determine meaning. We will also begin narrative writing this week. Students will have a graded assignment in which they have to differentiate and identify a narrative and expository prompt. (Friday). 

*Weekly benchmark assessment on Friday. Writing assignment for a grade on Friday.

MATH:

It is important that students continue memorizing their multiplication facts up to 10. Mathfactcafe.com is a great website that provides flashcard practice and printable worksheets for the students. This week we will continue focusing on Chapter6 (Polygons). We will be working out of pgs. 330-351 in our math books. Math textbooks are available on line, students have been provided with the information necessary to access the book.  

*Students will be taking a multiplication and division test on Friday. We will also be doing a GIZMO (computer program) activity as a class and students will have a graded assignment based on the activity.

SCIENCE:

This week we will be focusing on Properties of Matter. Students will be reading pages F6-F32 in their science books.  We will also have an open-book graded assignment on Tuesday.

Vocabulary for science:

matter, property, volume, mass, density, buoyancy, weight, solid, gas, liquid, mixture, solution, physical change, periodic table, element, atom, compound, chemical change.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

This week we will only be focusing on Science.