What's Happening This Week:

Important Dates:

1/22 - Bookmobile @ CCA

1/27-1/30 - National School Choice Week

1/27 - School Choice Week AM Assembly

This week:

Chapter 6 - We will continue working on long division. We will work in small groups with Mrs. Minne and Mrs. Herman to work on coordinate plane as well as volume. Concepts worked on in small group will *NOT* be homework, unless students cannot stay on task.

We will continue Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. We read the play version so students will be able to act it out and have fun with it. The activities/assignments can be tricky so students may need additional help at home to help with understanding. At the end of the unit, we will watch the recorded version of the play that WC Drama performed a few years ago.

In addition to MSND, we will also continue reading Little Women as part of our Literature content. This book is quite long, so we will be reading it for many weeks. I plan to try to watch the movie at the end if we have time.

I am requesting that parents help their student with their reading and reading comprehension. Our content is challenging and the more repeated exposure to it, the better they will understand.

We will continue exploring Earth's systems. We will wrap up this unit early next week. Students had a front row seat to the interactions between the Earth's spheres on Friday with the intense wind storm! I believe this helped students understand that all of the spheres interact.

Following Earth's systems we will explore Westward Expansion before the Civil War. My goal with this will be a group project/presentation. More info to come.

New lists are current content based across subjects. Lists will only have 3 words. Students will be required to write each word with markings 4 times each, look up each word in the dictionary (writing down part of speech, page number and proper definition), and writing a sentence using each word correctly.

New lists will be posted to Parent Square.

We will continue working on our writing with our Midsummer Night's Dream and Little Women content.

Next week we will begin our next informational research essay based on Westward Expansion before the Civil War. *More info to come.*

1/22 - Bookmobile @ CCA

1/27-1/30 - National School Choice Week

1/27 - School Choice Week AM Assembly

2/3-5 - NJHS Penny War

2/6 - First Friday Hat Day ($2)

2/6 - School Store