This Week in Room 28

THE LAST WEEK BEFORE VACATION

ELA

• Genre: Narrative and Free Verse Poetry
• Skill: Theme, Repetition and Rhyme
• Language: Grammar Review :Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases, Underlining and Italicizing Titles
• Vocab: ambitious, memorized, satisfaction, shuddered
• Poetry Terms: free verse, narrative, repetition, rhyme

MATH

• Common Denominators & Simplest Form
• Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
• Converting mixed numbers and improper fractions

SCIENCE

• Phases of the Moon test Thursday

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Explorers
• Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Exchange

IMPORTANT DATES 

• NO SCHOOL February 20-24
• Progress Reports issued March 6th
• Book Project due March 31st

REMINDERS

• Extra Help every Tuesday: PLEASE come to make up any work, or ask questions about anything you want to work on.  Students should be prepared with questions and/or work they need help with please.
• Sneakers every Thursday and Friday

Classwork / Homework Reminder

• Students are responsible for writing in their assignments each morning and adding in incomplete work as the day continues. Students are to finish any unfinished classwork for homework.  Please sign agendas every school night!

• Neatness is expected and required in all assignments.  Grade level spelling, capital letters, end marks, and complete sentences are expected.  Assignments not meeting this criteria may need to be redone to reflect expectations.  Effort is the foundation of success.
• When absent, students must get their work from the teacher and should be handed in as soon as possible (ex: absent Monday, work is due Thursday)