The Blue Light Special Food Drive Slide Show

Parent Teacher Conferences

All scheduled meeting times have been sent home.  If you have not received a meeting time, please contact ME, not the school office.  I do not have any more openings available for Monday evening. Since the night is entirely booked, meetings will be VERY timely to ensure all families get their deserved, scheduled time.

Please Note:

• Please be punctual.  If you are late, this time will be taken from the 15 minutes we are assigned.
• Children (student or siblings) are NOT  allowed in room during conferences.

NEW MEETING TIME OPTION: 

If you would like to schedule a different meeting than you were assigned,  please send me an email at nicholas.magierowski-howe@leominster.mec.edu.
We can set one up the week AFTER Thanksgiving in the morning, afternoon, or early evening instead

Looking forward to speaking with you all about your wonderful children!

Vikings Unit Test Study Guide

Know the different places the Vikings traveled to

Know who settled Iceland and Greenland?
 
What did Viking warriors do when they returned home from raiding?
 
What type of government was established in Iceland and Greenland?
 
Know some of the different reasons Vikings went out exploring.
 
What place did Leif Ericson discover in North American?
 
What were the three modern-day countries that formed Scandinavia, the Vikings homeland?

What was the Viking alphabet called?             What were Viking letters called?
 
Besides warriors and raiders, what other occupations/jobs did the Viking people have?
 
Describe what type of armor and weaponry the Viking warriors used…what is different than the way the Vikings are often portrayed?
 
Why did Erik the Red name the land he discovered Greenland?
 
Why is Gardard Svavarsson important to the world today?
 
Why is Eric the Red important to the world today?
 
Why is Leif Erikson important to the world today.?

1.  

Be able to identify the following locations on a map:

• Iceland
• New Foundland /Vinland
• Sweden
• Norway
• Denmark
• Canada
• Greenland
• Great Britain (England/Scotland)
• Ireland

Resources/Notes to Help

Viking small reader

Webquest Teacher Provided Notes

Notes taken from Viking webquest (powerpoint notes)

Mr. M-H: Test Wednesday

Mrs. Lay: Test Thursday 

The recipients of this honor are students who complete all of their school and homework and done so with their best effort, follows the class and school code of conduct at all times, has no unexcused absences/tardiness, displays random acts of kindness, and goes above and beyond.  While many students meet this criteria, this month, we recognize THREE SPECIAL STUDENTS: Kyra, Alondra, and Megan's contributions to Room 28.

Megan Dube








Kyra Kittredge









Alondra Guzman

This Week in Room 28

EXTRA HELP TUESDAY MORNING from 8-830 am

• No appointment needed
• Please bring work you would like to work on or specific questions 

Field Trip Friday!

Our class has just concluded an enormously successful canned food drive for Ginny’s Helping Hands and Food Pantry.  As part of this ongoing community service project, on Friday, November 20^th, our class will be taking a field trip to Ginny’s Food Pantry to deliver donations and make Thanksgiving baskets for families in need. 

We will be leaving Fall Brook School around 9:30 and returning around 2:30.  Ginny’s is located near downtown Leominster on Mechanic Street.  Heather Mazzafero, School Committee member and manager of Ginny’s, will be providing lunch.  Students may also bring snacks/drinks (please no glass!).

Permission Slips are due by WEDNESDAY to  participate

Parents...interested in joining us? ...

Email me!!  nicholas.magierowski-howe@leominster.mec.edu 

What We Are Learning This Week...

Math

• Students will learn how to solve problems involving the order of operations
• Reviewing multiplying, multiplying decimals, and decimal subtraction and addition

ELA

• Read, understand, and compare fairy tales from around the world
• Discuss how setting and point of view impacts a plot
• Compare and contrast characters, settings, and events in a story and between stories
• Write compare and contrast essays on characters
• Edit and revise run-on sentences and fragments
• Continue review of complex and compound sentences
• No Spelling homework this week
• Students will be bringing home fairy tales told from multiple perspectives as ELA homework

Science

• Food Chains and Food Webs

Social Studies

• Preparing Our Food Donations for Shipment
• Vikings Unit Long Boat Project
• Viking Test
• Mr. M-H: Wednesday
• Mrs. Lay: Thursday

Picture Retakes

November 17th 

Spelling Words of the Week: PLURAL

• countries
• liberties
• potatoes
• taxes
• reptiles
• surroundings
• beliefs
• difficulties
• batches
• abilities
• lashes
• identities
• losses
• possibilities
• zeroes
• mosquitoes
• geniuses
• trophies
• families
• cities

Photosynthesis Quiz

The Photosynthesis quiz will be November 13th for Mr. Howe's homeroom. All study materials come from student notes and activities.

Below is the study guide:

 Photosynthesis Test Study Guide

Know the important ingredients of photosynthesis and be able to write a step by step process of how photosynthesis take place (Recipe Card)

Know the four steps to the photosynthesis process (Recipe Card)

Know the two outcomes that come from photosynthesis (Recipe Card)

Know what the xylem and the phloem are, and what their job is in the plant (definition page and Recipe Card)

Be able to explain why Glucose is important

Clearly explain the importance of plant roots

Memorize the Photosynthesis definitions

a.        Producer- An organism that makes its own food (plant)

b.       Consumer- An organism that relies on other organisms for food

Be able draw and label a diagram of photosynthesis

**A word bank will be given on the test**

You should use the recipe card, definition page, photosynthesis diagram, and the brochure to help you study. 

Writing Equations to Represent Word Problems

Multiplying Decimals Review 

(Video Tutorial)- Kahn Academy

Click Here 

Be sure to have one factor going left and right (width) and the other factor going top to bottom (length).  The product of the two factors is the overlapping color.  In the case above, the product is the purple shaded hundredths

tenth x tenth = hundredths