Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Language Arts:

The book projects were wonderful!!

The students have been studying homophones and types of sentences; their quarterly assessment will be based on their knowledge of those topics.

Math:

The students have been learning how to use formulas to find: perimeter, area, volume, and circumference.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Language Arts -

The students have been learning how to identify and punctuate different types of sentences.

This week the students will be studying the correct usage of homophones.

REMINDER: BOOK PROJECTS ARE DUE MARCH 6, 2012


Math -

The students are beginning to study polygons.

The class will be reviewing a variety of topics to prepare for the NJASK tests.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Language Arts:

Students have been learning about prefixes and suffixes.
Currently we are learning about different types of sentences.
Students have been improving their speculative writing skills.

***Please continue to work on BOOK PROJECTS!!!!

Math:

Students just completed a section on probability.

Currently they are learning about graphing inequalities.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!

Language Arts:

The students are currently learning about suffixes.
In writing, the students are practicing writing speculative essays.
The students also wrote books for their quarterly assessments; ask your student to read their book, to you.


Math:

The students are currently learning about expressions and the order of operations.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Happy New Year!!!!

Language Arts:
Currently we are learning about prefixes and suffixes.
We will be writing snowman stories that will count as a quarterly assessment grade.
Please continue to work on the book project.

Math:
Currently we are solving problems involving negative numbers.
We will complete a quarterly assessment project soon.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Happy Holidays!!!

Please make sure that your student is reading his or her book for the book project.
The project outline was given to your student today.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Language Arts:
The students are currently learning about figures of speech.
All students have new books for their book projects; book project outlines
will be sent home this Thursday.

Math:
Students are currently learning how to solve multi-step
word problems.