Please remember that next Friday, January 29th, is an early out day for teacher professional development. Students will be dismissed at 1:30 on that day.
Writing
In writing, we've been talking about word choice, and how good writing uses a variety of precise, interesting words. As you are with your student, talk to him/her about interesting words you come across. Once we started looking, interesting words seemed to pop out everywhere!
Alaska's government
We are studying Alaska's government in Social Studies, which can be a challenging topic for some students. If your student has any item, story, picture, etc that he/she would like to bring in to share about Alaska's government, it would be appreciated.
Next week:
In reading we will finish our nonfiction investigations, and begin reading a novel.
In writing, we will continue to look at word choice and proofreading.
In math we will wrap up Unit 7. The test over Unit 7 will be next Friday.
In social studies, we will continue to study Alaska's government
In science, students will finish their look at variables.
Remember, you can check out this week's word study words in the word study section of the class website.