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September 14, 2007

READING

 We have begun the novel Sing Down the Moon.  It is a story about a Navaho girl and her struggles as the White Men force the Native Americans off their land.  Remember that a free reading book report is due on September 28th.

 

SCIENCE –   

We will be studying the classification systems of animals.  Has your child told you what the mnemonic “King Phillip our famous girl singer” stands for yet?   We will be researching an animal of the student’s choice, and then be writing detailed reports.

 

MATH

We have been working on place value in whole numbers and in using decimals.  We will continue this, and begin adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers with decimal.

ELA

We will be working hard on our writing skills via our science reports.  We will discuss topic sentences and details.  We will be reading information from various sources (internet, encyclopedias and non-fiction books) to gather information to include in our reports.  Our reports will be typed in class using the laptops….so our computer skills will be integrated into ELA and Science.

SOCIAL STUDIES

The students did an incredible job learning about and preparing for the Constitution Day Morning Program.  They all can recite the Preamble, and they know the 50 States as well.  We will now focus on Exploration of the Americas.  We will learn about Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Balboa and many other Spanish, English and French explorers.

         

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Check out www.jt.wnyric.org to see our Morning Program pictures.  Our weekly newsletter is also updated on the site every week.

• Thank you to all of the families that were able to attend our Morning Program.  The students did a fabulous job!!!  Their patriotism brought chills and tears to the eyes of many audience members!