The Last Week of February! (?)

Wow!  February really flew by.  It's hard to believe it's the last week of February.  Here's what happening this week in Room 128:

Language Arts:  We will start reviewing strategies this week. This week's focus is using context clues to help figure out the meaning of unknown words.  Students will become "word detectives" and look for clues such as synonyms and antonyms and examples in sentences to help figure our unknown words.  We will also be learning about prepositional phrases.  Students will have spelling and word work this week.  In addition, instead of weekly writing homework, there will be a reading comprehension worksheet.  I will now be alternating reading and writing homework every week in order to help start preparing students for their Reading SOL test. (Yes, we start reviewing this early!)

Math:  This week's focus is on mixed numbers and improper fractions.  Students will learn how to convert an improper fraction into a mixed number and vice versa.  Students will also learn how to place fractions on a number line to help with number sense.  Please refer to my edline page for additional practice and tutorial videos. 

Virginia Studies:  We will wrap up our unit on Colonial Virginia and the Founding Fathers on Friday. There will be a test on Thursday.  We will also have our Colonial Virginia Wax Museum on Friday from 2:30-3:00. The students will be "wax figures" and will read you their autobiography when their "button" is pushed.  I hope to see you there!

Notes:  Our next unit in Science is on electricity.  I am looking for D Batteries for our next project (designing an electronic game board).  Please consider donating for this fun project.